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Backyard Projectusing Academy Watercolour Pencilsby artist Linda Stevens

Materials used

Watercolour Paper

Academy Sketching 2B pencil

Academy Watercolour Pencils; Yellow Ochre,

Rose, Terracotta, Brown, Black, Sea Green,

Burnt Umber.

Paintbrush

Saucer or palette

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Draw your design on a spare piece of paper; this

enables you to erase any mistakes and not leave

marks on your good watercolour paper.

Once you are happy with your design you can then

proceed to trace your picture onto the piece of

watercolour paper remembering not to press too

hard whilst tracing as you will leave marks on your

paper. We recommend using a 2B pencil for this.

Use your shapes to guide you to draw your

design. Circles, squares, triangles and oblongs

are the basics of drawing.

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At this stage we start to put in the nal details. In the

background more dry colour has been added to create

more depth and tone to the drawing.

In some areas, such as the watering can, the cross hatching

technique has been used. Yellow and Sea Green dry pencil

have been added to the pots to give them some age.

Over the base of the picture the pots are standing on a

wet and dry surface; make sure the dark areas are kept to

the corners and base of the pot so they create the deepest

shadows. For the compost falling out of the pot Terracotta

and Brown have been used and left to dry. Burnt Umber

and Black wet pencil were used for the marks on top of the

compost to achieve the look of texture.

Your drawing is now complete!

Select the colours you wish to use for your background;

Yellow Ochre, Rose, Terracotta and Black have been used for

this drawing.

Take a wet brush and run some colour off the tip of the

pencil using a saucer to collect the wet colour. Start by

mixing some Yellow Ochre and Rose in your saucer / palette

and then apply this to the paper.

Terracotta and Black have then been added in smallamounts to give the shadows. For the pots, watering can,

spade and shovel Terracotta, Brown and Rose have been

used by taking the colour from the tip of the pencil using a

wet brush and then applying this to the paper.

Let your drawing dry.

Once your picture has dried you can start putting on morecolour. You can do this in two ways (1) you can use your

dry watercolour pencil and run this over your watering can,

pots and background and then go over this with a wet brush

or (2) you can pick the colour up from the tip of the pencil

and apply this to the picture. The second option will give

you stronger colours. Once you are happy with the colours

leave to dry.

Use Green for the leaves and stalks and choose which

colours you would like your owers to be.

Depending on the paper you use if you apply the pencil dry

you can achieve some great textured effects.