Thursday 21 June 2012

such sweet sweet peas

Remember our special (eek - expensive!) watercolour paper?  On which we painted those bee-autiful watercolour butterflies that we were so very proud of?

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Well, it just so happens that we have some left.  We also have some bee-autiful red and pink and purple sweet peas.

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Aren’t they lovely?

What more relaxing way to spend half an hour on a hot sticky day than with a sheet of special (eek - expensive!) watercolour paper, a jam jar of water, some watercolour paints and a paintbrush.

Remember how it works?   How we paint the paper first with water…..

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and then, using wet watercolour paint, we allow the paints to mix themselves (on the paper - rather than in the palette).

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See how a drop of white…..

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transforms the centre bloom.

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See how a dab of red…..

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or purple…..

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or maybe a touch of white…..

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swirls into the most bee-autiful patterns…..

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as they mix with the colours already there.

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