Painting Vintage Style Pansies – Simple Secrets to Successful Watercolor Sketches

Why not start a botanical sketchbook this summer? Take your box of paints and a small mixed media sketchbook like mine from Canson XL and make some simple but charming vintage style sketches while enjoying the sunshine. Any patch of garden or park will provide you with loads of ideas for little paintings which can form the foundation of later larger works, or be transformed into small gifts for loved ones. 

So let’s learn how to draw a simple pansy or viola and their leaves, and then color them in with watercolor paint from a outdoor sketch box by A. Gallo.

I have a simple way of drawing violas and pansies which I show you in this video, and then we go on to paint them in an easy, loose way, using just a few colors.

Why not take a look?