Easter with watercolor painting and Easter traditions in Finland.
There are interesting Easter traditions around the world and in this video I'm painting an #Easter witch and talking about one of the Finnish Easter tradition for kids.

In Finland kids decorate willow twigs with colorful feathers and other decorations. Then they dress up as Easter witches and go door to door kind of like trick or treating for Halloween. They wish good health and give the decorated willows in exchange for Easter eggs or candy. This Easter tradition is a mix of religious and non-religious Finnish customs and there's a similar tradition in Sweden.

The painting I made is of a little girl dressed up as a witch and she's carrying the decorated willow twigs. She's dressed colorfully and has a scarf tied around her head and freckles painted on her cheeks. There's also a little flying witch silhouette against the moon.

As usual I drew the sketch on grid paper and used the grid method to get the proportions right. Then I transferred the sketch onto watercolor paper using graphite transfer paper. I don't like to draw directly on watercolor paper, 'cause when you erase it, you break the surface of the paper and it will show through the painting. And this way I can also use the same sketch for other purposes, like ink it to make a coloring page for my Etsy shop.

I narrowed down the colors to mostly blue and orange, yellow and purple. For the skin tone I mixed cadmium yellow, cadmium red, burnt sienna and white.

Grid drawing method: [ Ссылка ]
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Cotman Watercolor Set [ Ссылка ] (affiliate)
Watercolor paper, A4, 250 gsm
Graphite transfer paper

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