Painting #4, April 2017. VanGogh's 15 Sunflowers

Painting #4, April 2017.   VanGogh's 15 Sunflowers - a step by step project from "Painting the Great Master by Numbers" by Ivan Hissey & Curtis Tappenden.

 9"x12, using Strathmore 140# watercolor cold press block, and Winsor & Newton watercolour tube paint pigments.

The book provided a 5"x6" line drawing that I enlarged using a grid and transferred it onto the watercolour paper.   Following the eight steps is next.

It  probably would have helped more if I had actually read the directions before I launched into the project and missed the first process step.   The directions were for acrylic paints that I didn't have, so I used my watercolour tube paints undiluted.

I do like the watercolour "blocked" paper as you don't have to stretch it.  "Stretching" is a process I haven't tried yet... too intimidating.

 I think I painted the "Teddy Bear" sunflowers three times - wetting and wiping back to the paper, then repainting.  The texture and colour still aren't what I want; but I think the paper will dissolve if I wash them off again.