Watercolor Painting - Bougainvillea Flowers-Draw in Detail-Wet on Dry technique-Tutorial.

In this video, I will paint Bougainvillea Flowers in Detail. Bougainvillea comes in a variety of colors-orange, purple, pink, yellow and white with magenta being the most common color. I brought this flower from my back yard. Bougainvillea is the very common flower in southern California. I have painted so many works related to this flower. This flower’s leaf is thin and transparent. So, I am going to use Wet on Dry style painting layer by layer. I personally prefer wet on wet to wet on dry. Because the spreading the colors in wet on wet fascinates me. However wet on dry technique has also many merits like adding layer, depth and detail. So, I recommend you to try to practice both of them together. Also today will learn how to describe the light and shadow of flowers. Someone asked me what color I apply for the shadow. I use the some kind of purple color which was generated from mixing ultramarine and magenta. But it sometimes may vary in different cases. Especially, Today I will use the color s