The Strawberry Pot, watercolour, (25x25cm)
Follow Margaret Eggleton as she shows how to paint a pot full of strawberry plants, step-by-step, in watercolour.
A friend gave me an empty terracotta strawberry pot with a large space at the top and eight oval planting pockets staggered round the sides.
I loved its rounded shape and instantly knew I wanted to paint it, so I bought several varieties of strawberry plants to fill it. The fruit started ripening in May and I soon had the watercolours out.
Materials used
Paper
Bockingford 300gsm NOT paper was the ideal surface for this painting.
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Paints
For this painting I used Maimeri-Blu watercolours in lemon, cobalt blue, ultramarine and raw sienna, as they are very transparent, along with Daler-Rowney cadmium red.
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Brushes
Brushes used were:
- Rosemary & Co. Pure Squirrel mops sizes 0, 0.30 and 0.10
- Derwent flat technique 1/2"
- Proarte Series 50 large
Demonstration: The Strawberry Pot
Reference photograph
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