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Watercolor Painting an Orchid: 4th Blossom

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    Part of the video series: Watercolor Painting: An Orchid

    Summary: When watercolor painting an orchid, mix cobalt blue with rose to create a violet hue for coloring the blossoms. Learn more about painting blossoms using watercolors from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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    Cody Davis earned his second-degree black belt in 2006. He is a great teacher of the Shaolin/Kenpo arts. Sifu Davis has been a student of the arts for more than 13 years.read more

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    "OKay, now we've done three blossoms, we're going to start working on the other ones. So we're going to put down water with the big brush and then we're going to put the color down with the small brush. All that does is just speed up the process and save us from cleaning the brush so many times. Now these have some violet in them. All the, the three blossoms on the left have some violet in them. They're not just rose. And we're going to achieve that by putting cobalt, cobalt with rose. Now I've already got that done, here. But, before we do that, we need to put just straight rose in just like we did with the other ones."

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