Post #2!! Sunflowers

I know that my first post was only yesterday, but I was SO excited that my blog is finally up and running that I thought I would just go for it with a second post.

In this one I'll be showing you some of my own pieces; one of which you might have noticed in the ABOUT ME bar on the home page.

The other day my mother was out at a market and noticed a little stall selling, as well as their vegetables, some beautiful sunflowers! She bought me a bouquet and brought them home for me to do some drawing!!! This is some of what I came up with.

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An attempt at watercolours --> the same sunflowers from before --> I really need more watercolour practice.

I tend to use watercolours as if they were acrylics... I'll watch some tutorials and get some better technique.

This is true; I haven't really had any watercolour training -- I usually work in acrylics when it comes to paint. Therefore, when this disaster happened, I sort of gave up (not forever, just until I learn some better technique, as I said). Sooo please ignore this when you judge me based on my work, something I'm sure we all do. This was done with my Fragonard Aquarelle Extra Fine artist's water colours.

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More sunflowers! it was an entire bouquet, but seeing as it took so long to draw just this one I thought I would leave it at that.

Yeahhh, this sunflower took me the good part of an entire day....

But, if I do say so myself, I am pretty happy with it, though the vase, not so much. I used my Derwent Graphic 12 soft graphite pencils for this.

A dead and more withered flower.

I'm not so sure how "dead and withered" this one really looks, but I wouldn't be able to change much if I went back to fix it now. This is a coloured pencil work, if you can't tell. I used my beautiful Prismacolor brand coloured pencils (the kneaded eraser I'm such a fan of came with these 72 gorgeous colours) I do really enjoy using them, they're super soft and the colour is magnificent.

And here's the piece you may recognize; it's another coloured pencil piece, in fact the same flower as the withering one, just a few days earlier.

Let me know what your favorite art supplies brands are; I'm curious to know what other great kinds of supplies are out there to try.