Abstract Wild Green Poppy T-Shirt

Abstract Wild Green Poppy Watercolor on Yupo, by Conni Schaftenaar This began as a couple of blues (Prussian and Ultramarine, and maybe some Cerulean) flooded onto a sheet of Yupo. A sheet of plastic wrap was laid on, scrunched around to make that lovely stained glass look on the background and dried thoroughly. That took a couple of days! Then, I drew the poppy flower, buds and leaves on the background. I simply painted Sap Green over the stems and leaves and the pod side of the buds. For the flower petals and the nearly-ready-to-open buds, I wet the area, lifting out some, but not all of the blue, then added small amounts of Aureolin Yellow, which mixed with the remnants of blues to create those lovely greens. The seed center of ...