Watercolour Art — Watercolour Florals

I've been wanting to paint with Gouache for a while now but i'm really am not a fan of mixing colours with Gauche, its chunky and the colours offered don't really get me inspired to paint.Soooo... I used my watercolour paints and added white gouache to them in little jars and viola! "gouache colours" I actually want to paint with!I bought the tiny containers from amazon years ago, I think they're empty lip gloss containers.         Colours used:-Winsor & Newton White Gouache-DS Mayan Blue-Arteza Peach mixed with W&N Flesh Tint- Arteza Sage Green mixed with a touch...

First Off Happy New Year Everyone!  So this Christmas I splurged a little on a handmade watercolour pallet from Ocean Paper. (no ad affiliation, I purchased on my own) I've always wanted to try handmade watercolours and as always love to support small businesses. I loved the look of the colours in this pallet (around the world) and decided to pull the trigger when they had their Black Friday Sale!  Once it arrived I was over the moon with the colours and the paints themselves!! They truly are beautiful and I'm so excited to see how they merge with my current...

Feww, was it just me or was October quit crazy this year?? For the entire month I didn't have the chance to update my watercolour florals at all. Therefore, I'm unleashing all my florals painted in October in this post!!! How exciting right lol. 

A little Update on the painting front! I haven't had any spare time to paint these last couple of months, so last weekend I made some time. I wanted to play around with some red hues and if you know me I had to add some opera rose to it (honestly I just cannot not use it!!). I wanted more subtle green hues to offset the saturation of the florals for the leaves. I used the main red hue to mix with the green (sap green) in order to give a much duller look but also to keep the tone on...