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Nepenthes Copelandii painted from photo reference of Jeremiahs CPs from wikimedia.org

1st of my botanical paintings, painted on 25/11/16 with pencil and water color and a touch of acrylic on 300g watercolor paper.


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Botanical Art

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Photo Information

  • Taken with Canon Canon EOS 500D
  • Focal Length 50 mm
  • Exposure Time 1/25
  • f Aperture f/8.0
  • ISO Speed 100

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1 hour ago, North West Neps said:

Superb !

I look forward to your future paintings. Any idea what species you're going to work on next ? And will you do requests ? :D

Yeah Ill do requests, Im sticking with Nepenthes for now. Im just drawing a Globosa now, as its a photo in public domain so i dont have to worry about copyrights. I wanted to do a Bicalcarata but cant find any images with correct licencing 

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On 11/26/2016 at 6:35 PM, corky said:

Excellent work, nice video :-)

thanks corky, im just working on an Ampullaria red speckle, well thats what i think it is but ill need it confirming before I write it on the finished piece, lol

a sneaky preview below, plenty of time yet to mess it up...

 

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Thanks Jim, Im still getting to grasps with watercolors, normal i paint with acrylics and if you make any mistakes its easy enough to paint over,... Man watercolor isnt very forgiving, the paper especially. Iv started making the drawing on a separate paper where i can make mistakes and get it together and then tracing it to the watercolor paper, as it really dos not like to be rubbed, lol

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making initial sketch on separate paper is a good idea .But be careful when tracing on to water colour paper .Keep a light touch  so as not to show through finished paint

kind regards

jim

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13 hours ago, tatter said:

making initial sketch on separate paper is a good idea .But be careful when tracing on to water colour paper .Keep a light touch  so as not to show through finished paint

kind regards

jim

Nice tip Jim, i have noticed. Nearly done on the ampullaria pic, a few more hours and should be their hopefully by the end of the day

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