MATERIALS
• Stretched linen canvas 24 x 24 inches.• Artists’ oil paints: Winsor & Newton and Art Spectrum. Colours including Magenta, Cobalt Blue, Olive Green, Blue Black, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Orange, Flinders Blue Violet and Titanium White.• Artists’ brushes: Winsor & Newton Cotman flats (three-quarter inch, half inch, Number 3); Roymac Number 6 round; Condor 402 rigger.• Palette knife.• Liquin.• Retouch varnish.• Reference photograph. STEP ONE
I crop my photograph so that the waterlilly fills up most of the image, to suit the canvas. I then draw up my sketch using a 3B pencil – very lightly.
STEP TWO
I block in my darks, keeping an eye on the tones and watching my edges.
STEP THREE
When the previous layer is dry, I apply a light coat of retouch varnish.…