Entries by Doris Joa

How to create colour harmony in flower paintings

When we create a flower paintings then we need to make sure that the flower, the leaves and also the background build a whole. We need to make sure that we create colour harmony. The complete flower painting shouldn’t look like a puzzle when we are finished. So how do we do that? How to […]

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Painting Realistic Leaves

Painting realistic Leaves, Mix the perfect greens for your leaves in light and shadow Although I love to paint leaves I have figured out that they are often the most with which we struggle with when it comes to paint them.  Painting realistic leaves and mixing the perfect greens isn’t so difficult, we just need […]

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Watercolor Painting Of White Daisies

Watercolor Painting Of White Daises Currently I am working on a new flower watercolor painting of  white daisies. I really enjoy working on the background and I thought I would show here my work in progress. I wanted to create a feeling of wild growing white daises within a wild field of flowers. So I have to […]

How to paint emotions

To paint with watercolors is just fun, pure pleasure and an absolutely passion. How to watercolor? Where to start? What to do first? When I want to start a painting I usually don’t need to search for inspiration because I only need to look around me. If it is a smile on a childrens face or […]

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Pink Hydrangea Painting in Watercolor

Just wanted to share with you my work in progress ‘Painting of Pink Hydrangea in watercolor’. The flower is mostly finished but I also wanted to start with the leaves. I was so curious to see how it will look together. I am very pleased with the work in progress and I can’t wait to […]