A fuchsia painted with watercolour
Hi there, how are you?
Been drawing in the garden again this week. Another fuchsia has flowered very exciting, (for me anyway).
The plant is very small again and the flower is quite large, I’m not sure why all of the fuchsia plants are so small this year, maybe it’s the changeable weather.
Anyway it has a single beautiful flower and one or two buds so I’m drawing the flower and turning the plant to draw it from different angles.
The first two were painted with watercolour, they looked a little pale and uninteresting so I coloured over them with some watercolour pencils to try and bring out some of the shadows, It seemed to liven them up a little.
I remembered I had a sketchbook with toned paper, (I keep putting it away and forgetting about it.) the paper is very absorbent but I really like the colour of the paper.
Next I drew with a brown fine liner and a white gel pen, I always like this effect, sort of tone on tone.
I love all types of fuchsia, especially the big frilly ones, luckily the slugs don’t like them at all which is a real bonus, so the flowers should continue well into September.
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by. Till next time, have fun x