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Olena Sketching - Autumn Maple Leaf Real-Time Lesson / Watercolor
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Hi loves! In this watercolor tutorial, we’ll paint a bright autumn maple leaf and use it to explore color, volume, and contrast.
Even though a leaf is mostly a flat object, it still has form. We’ll look at how to create a sense of volume through subtle value and color changes, without making the leaf feel too heavy or three-dimensional.
We’ll also practice mixing clean, vibrant yellows, oranges, and reds and creating soft transitions between them. I’ll show you how I let these colors flow into each other while keeping them fresh and luminous instead of muddy.
Another important part of this lesson is color contrast. The leaf is bright and saturated, while the background is much softer and more muted. We’ll use this difference to make the leaf stand out naturally without relying only on strong dark values.
In this lesson, we’ll practice:
• creating volume on a mostly flat object• mixing clean yellows, oranges, and reds• creating soft color transitions• keeping watercolor colors fresh and vibrant• working with saturated and muted colors• using color contrast to separate the subject from the background
As always, we’ll paint the whole piece together step by step in real time.
Materials:
Watercolor - Rosa Gallery
Paper - Potentate Watecolor Paper 19x19 cm / 7,48x7,48 in
Brush - Escoda Versatil 6, Escoda Ultima 10, Escoda Perla 6
These principles can be used far beyond autumn leaves, especially when painting flowers, food, botanical subjects, and any composition where you want a bright focal point to stand out against a quieter background.
Reference photo is from Unsplas - https://unsplash.com/photos/a-single-red-and-yellow-leaf-on-a-branch-ZJsdII7S8oY
Happy Painting!
Hi loves! In this watercolor tutorial, we’ll paint a bright autumn maple leaf and use it to explore color, volume, and contrast.
Even though a leaf is mostly a flat object, it still has form. We’ll look at how to create a sense of volume through subtle value and color changes, without making the leaf feel too heavy or three-dimensional.
We’ll also practice mixing clean, vibrant yellows, oranges, and reds and creating soft transitions between them. I’ll show you how I let these colors flow into each other while keeping them fresh and luminous instead of muddy.
Another important part of this lesson is color contrast. The leaf is bright and saturated, while the background is much softer and more muted. We’ll use this difference to make the leaf stand out naturally without relying only on strong dark values.
In this lesson, we’ll practice:
• creating volume on a mostly flat object• mixing clean yellows, oranges, and reds• creating soft color transitions• keeping watercolor colors fresh and vibrant• working with saturated and muted colors• using color contrast to separate the subject from the background
As always, we’ll paint the whole piece together step by step in real time.
Materials:
Watercolor - Rosa Gallery
Paper - Potentate Watecolor Paper 19x19 cm / 7,48x7,48 in
Brush - Escoda Versatil 6, Escoda Ultima 10, Escoda Perla 6
These principles can be used far beyond autumn leaves, especially when painting flowers, food, botanical subjects, and any composition where you want a bright focal point to stand out against a quieter background.
Reference photo is from Unsplas - https://unsplash.com/photos/a-single-red-and-yellow-leaf-on-a-branch-ZJsdII7S8oY
Happy Painting!
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