Every month I try to film a how-to video to encourage other people's creativity. This month I was short on time, so I created the video from a carousel of photos, putting them together with a voice over on Instagram and then adding the captions on TikTok (as Instagram was struggling with that. 

It's all about a simple way of sketching some flowers, stems and leaves in watercolours and pen. It's less than a minute long and I hope you enjoy it! 

I used:
- some watercolour paper,
- just three colours from a set of half-pan watercolours (but some tubes of watercolour paint will do just as well),
- a watercolour brush, 
- a jam jar of clean water (to clean my water brush in between using different colours), and
- a Sakura Pigma Micron artists pen with a 01 size nib (but you could just use a biro, ballpoint, rollerball or fountain pen),

I painted the watercolours very roughly, leaving most of the areas the flowers, stems and leaves covered blank, and I sketched swiftly, just to get an impression of the plant, rather than to record it exactly, and I think taking that approach added to the charm of the final piece! Please don't be perfectionist with this exercise. Just enjoy it! 


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Sam aka LymphomaLass xx

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