Leafy Watercolours Part II

Hello all!  I will try not to keep you long today... I'm just here to share the next batch of my daily watercolouring for World Watercolour Month.  Rather than following the prompts on offer, I decided to put in some work playing with brush strokes and paint/water concentrations to get my hand back in, as I'd not played with the watercolour paints for quite a long time.  So I have been doing daily leaf studies.  (Sorry it's a bit dark over to the right - it's hard to find a large enough patch of consistent light to have four A4 pieces of paper all together.)

This is the second batch.  If you missed the first Leafy Watercolours, that's where you'll find details of the paper I'm using and the colours in my limited palette.  I'm not sure there's an even progression of "getting better"... they come and go according to what kind of mood/focus/presence I'm bringing to the craft table each time.







So some of my favourites are in the first batch, but there are a couple more this time joining my short list.















I've continued the pattern of masking up the paper and adding background washes on day 1, and then adding leafy designs to both sides on day 2.

So it is daily watercolouring.  It's just not strictly one painting per day!









So let's not hang around any longer.  Here they are in order.  (As I said before, I'm waiting until I have the whole collection before I cut them up into individual paintings.)

Days 9 and 10... (where I suddenly remember how much I like furling the edges of the leaves!)

Days 11 and 12...

Days 13 and 14... (it's that Moonglow magic again - not so happy with the leaves but oh, the colours!)

Days 15 and 16... (the little round leaves make me very happy)

I know which are my favourites.  I wonder which are yours?

Some of you will have seen snippets of these over at my new Instagram page, but I'm trying to keep something back for the blog, which is the virtual scrapbook which really matters to me, so this is the first time the whole paintings have been on display.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you all have a lovely weekend, and I look forward to hopping round soon to see what you've all been up to.  Stay safe, stay well, everyone.

In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leaves grow.
Amit Ray

I'd like to share these at Paint Party Friday where they are on Week 20 of Year 10.  So happy to have been spotlit there by the random generator last week!
And I'm back to Do What Makes You Happy for Sue's lovely theme at Country View Challenges