Jun 13, 2018
Initially, I thought of painting the iris in acrylic. But acrylic although much easier to handle and paint with is not as luminous as watercolor, moreover I realized there is a lot of colour blending and therefore settled on watercolors.
I have an Arches watercolour block with the paper size of 11inX14in. So I chose to paint it on the block (No stretching of paper required)
Watercolour Block (stack of watercolour papers glued togather)
Next was the tedious process of drawing. This requires a fairly accurate drawing and not much erasing as erasing damages the sizing on the watercolor paper.
Here is a faint pencil drawing of the iris on the paper.
Pencil Drawing Of The Iris
Follow along for the next step of blocking in the painting, hopefully I will get some time tomorrow to block the shapes in.
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Mohamed Hirji