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Watercolor Painting – Two red chili peppers

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Watercolor painting - two red chili peppers

Watercolor painting - two red chili peppers

My daily watercolor painting is  a 5 x 7 inches painting of two red chili peppers on cold press watercolor paper.  This time I try painting a flat blue wash as the watercolor background before I painted the peppers.  I like it better than just a white background as I have with most of my previous chii pepper studies.  It seems to have soften the background and is not as harsh.  I shall try some other color as my background later on.  After the background color is completely dried, I painted the two red peppers and later on the shadows.  It was lots of fun.  After I have finished, I found a pencil outline for the shadow of the red pepper which I have missed.  This is the shadow where the top chili cast onto the backgound and the pepper below.  I seems ok without the shadow but I will put that in tomorrow just to see how it looks.

Watercolor Painting – Two Chili Peppers

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Two Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting

Two Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting

Last night I did a 5 x 7 inches watercolor painting of two chili peppers.  One is red and the other one is orange and yellow.  It is a good exercise to practice the color wash and the use of watercolor pigments.   The red chilli pepper is done with a mixture of reds and is put in layers.  Highlight is done using clean water on the paper before the red layer is applied.  Later on the highlights are lifted with a wet bristle brush.  More darker red is applied to the shadow side of the red chili pepper.  The yellow and orange pepper is done the same way with different pigments of watercolor.  Shadows is then applied as layers of blue purple watercolor on dry paper and then other more intense watercolor layer is put on top.  A little fun exercise.

Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting – Still Life

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Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting using flat wash

My daily painting in watercolor is another red Chili Pepper.  If is purposely painted with watercolor in a different way and style mainly using flat wash.  It is drawn on a 5 x 7 inches 140 Arches Cold Press Watercolor paper.  I did this Chili Pepper Watercolor painting in layers of wash.  It is first started with the lightest one of the whole Pepper leaving out the very bright highlights.  Then when it is completely dry, I put on another layer taking in consideration of the tones and shapes of the subject.  Then layer upon layer of flat wash after every layer is completely dry creates the effect of color and gives its shape.  Simple outline on some of the lighter shapes is done last.  The stem of the pepper is done the same way.  I must say I have the most fun in doing the shadows.  It is the same application of flat wash one on top of another for this special watercolor painting effect.

Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting – Red

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Red Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting - 5 x 7 inches

Red Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting - 5 x 7 inches

This is a 5 x 7 inches watercolor painting of a red chili pepper.  I try to apply a wash for a background instead of leaving it white as many of my last paintings.  This is a still life using artist Winsor and Newton watercolor and is done on cold press watercolor paper.   This one was done by painting the chili pepper first and leave the background and the shadow for last.  I will try to do one where I paint the background first and leave the pepper and shadow for last.  Then I would like to do another one with an underpainting for the entire sheet of paper before I paint the subject and the background.  It would be a good exercise for me to learn the property of the transparent watercolor.

Red Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting

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Red Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting

Red Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting

This is another red chili pepper study I did.  It is really lots of fun and I recommend anyone who likes to do watercolor try these ATC (artist trading card) size studies.  These are done using Winsor and Newton artist watercolor paint on cold press watercolor paper.  I will try to continue with my larger ballroom dance painting I started but I seems to have a block on continue with it.  Could it be that I have done so many of these 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 small studies that larger ones like the 15 x 20 inch ballroom painting is too intimtating?  Anyone got the same feeling before?  May be I should go on with an intermediate one of 8 x 10 before I go on bigger ones.  Anyone, I must get over it because I like to started painting ballroom art because that is one of my passion too.

Habanero Yellow Orange Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting

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Habanero Yellwo Orange Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting

Habanero Yellwo Orange Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting

Did another one of the Habanero Chili Pepper in watercolor.  Love the orange color and it’s shape.  I am still struggling with the watercolor wash for the body of the pepper.  I would like to make the orange part more transparent and try a wet in wet wash next time instead.  Making mistake is how you learn.  In the library I  come across of a good book on watercolor wash by Joe Garcia.  I think I have loaned it out before and is called Mastering the Watercolor Wash.  It is a very informative book on different types of watercolor wash.  I think I might try to get a used one from ebay for my own reference.

Red Jalapeno Pepper Watercolor Painting

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Red Jalapeno Pepper Watercolor Painting

Red Jalapeno Pepper Watercolor Painting

Back to painting chili pepper again. This time a red pepper using Winsor and Newton artist watercolor.  It is also a small one, only 2 /12 x 3 1/2 inches on watercolor paper.  Love the red color of this Jalapeno and the Scoville Heat Unit is around 5,000.

Habanero Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting – Yellow

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Habanero Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting

Habanero Chili Pepper Watercolor Painting

My daily painting is still going on with a little Habanero Pepper this time. I hope my passion for the watercolor painting keeps up like the heat of this pepper.  I found out from the internet that this little Habanero type of Pepper has a Scoville Heat Units of 325,000 to 570,000.  Compare to a Jalapeno pepper which is only 5,000 Scoville Heat Units.  I have a few of these mixed into the chili sauce I made this year so the chili sauce end up much hotter than other years.  A small amount of the oil can cause a intense and prolonged oral suffering.  It is fun doing this pepper in watercolor because of the mix of different color from orange to red to yellow.  Love to do one in oil paint and the oil medium that I use is Winsor and Newton Water Soluble Oil.  Have not an oil painting in a while and I am wondering if I can, like many of the oil painters that they can finish a small 6 x 6 inch oil painting each day.  Well, may be that is my next challange after I get boared painting all these little chili peppers in watercolor.