{"id":1844,"date":"2016-02-02T13:50:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T18:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2016-02-18T21:08:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T02:08:46","slug":"watercolor-practice-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/?p=1844","title":{"rendered":"Watercolor Brush Techniques and Washes &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m by no means advanced in the realm of watercolor, but I thought it would be a great place to start and give myself a bit of a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s lesson was JAM PACKED with more ideas on brush techniques and washes. I wanted to try my hands at some leaves and the wet-to-wet technique. I wet the paper in a leaf shape and then used wet pigment to drop in the color. Here I used Prussian Blue and Yellow Green from my Sakura Koi set. I used variations of the colors to achieve different leaves each time around.<\/p>\n<p>This was my result.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1845 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Hello-Leaves-1.jpg\" alt=\"Leaves\" width=\"858\" height=\"570\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a closer look at all the variations of color. Again, I&#8217;m pretty much a beginner with\u00a0watercolors\u00a0and just playing with the medium. I&#8217;m hoping to incorporate more washes and techniques into future cardmaking.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1846 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Hello-Leaves-2.jpg\" alt=\"Hello-Leaves-2\" width=\"858\" height=\"570\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hope this quick post inspires you to try something a little new today! Have a fantastic week friends!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all, I&#8217;m by no means advanced in the realm of watercolor, but I thought it would be a great place to start and give myself a bit of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[559,557,558,560,165,554,119],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cards","tag-inspire","tag-intermediate","tag-learning","tag-leaves","tag-online-card-class","tag-sakura-koi","tag-watercolor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1859,"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/1859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}