MATERIALS
• Arches 300gsm watercolour paper, stretched onto a thick sheet of plate glass.
• 1cm wide masking tape.
• Schmincke artist quality pigment watercolours: Sap Green, Indian Yellow, Aureolin, Ruby, Scarlet, Translucent Orange, Phthalo Blue, Phthalo Green, Brilliant Purple and Cobalt.
• Winsor & Newton Perylene Green, Perylene Maroon and Quinacridone Red.
• Maimeri Blu Dragon’s Blood.
• Kolinski Sable Brushes, Sizes 10, 8 and 4; and Number 2 Rigger.
• Watercolour pencils from Faber-Castell ‘Albrecht Durer’; Derwent, Cretacolor ‘Aquarellith’; Staedtler ‘Karat’ and Caran Dache ‘Supra Color II Soft’ ranges.
• Greaseproof paper.
• 2H graphite for drawing image; 6H for transferring to stretched paper.
STEP ONE
Having stretched your watercolour paper and allowed it to become bone dry, commence drawing the image onto cartridge paper, working out the…