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Watercolor Painting an Orchid: Leaf Details

When watercolor painting orchid leaves, use brunt sienna and blue to add detail to the hard edges. Learn more about painting leaf details from a professional artist in this free painting video.

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Now we're going to work on these hard edges here. Soften them up. Maybe even put some burnt sienna in there. Let’s experiment around. We'll try this. See how this works. That's all I need. And then I'm going to move that around so that it's not so noticeable. And it's still interesting. And then I'm going to get straight phthalo blue and add to this opening to make it really deep. And then we're going to add some phthalo blue to the bottom of the leaves and parts of the top of the leaves. When you put a phthalo color make sure that you get it out completely when you're going to the next color. Or, because phthalo colors are staining and you can't quite get them out of the paper very easily.

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Watercolor Painting an Orchid: Leaf Details

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