Hi friends! I had a great time painting this butterfly. I didn’t have anything planned when I started but the butterfly was so pretty that I wanted to turn it into a finished artwork. It really needed a background and I didn’t want it to feel “cut and pasted” so today I will show you how to integrate an interesting background after you have painted a subject.
This video is real-time so feel free to paint along, or watch it through and paint along after. You can pause anytime you need to. Just be sure to have fun!
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Supplies (Affiliate links used)
- Inspiration: the palette card I used is from The Color Cube
- Watercolor paper: Hahnemulhe Cezanne
- Watercolors (regular) DaVinci
- Watercolors metallic: Dreamland
- Arrtx travel brush set
- Stamps for texture, these are good and this *Bubble wrap can be used too!
- Colored pencils: Brutfuner or Kalor Macaron and Prismacolor
- Fudenosuke pen set
- White gel pen
I hope you enjoyed this full-length tutorial and til next time happy crafting!
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