Roslyn's hand curated watercolor coloring packs allow you to practice your technique with 100% cotton cold press watercolor paper for a professional base. Outlines in light grey help you determine the hardness of the subject's edges.
Each coloring pack comes with 1 practice sheet and 2 final sheets. Use your practice sheet to practice value, color placement, and technique.
On this daffodil practice sheet, she has used the left two panels to practice different shading techniques with Daniel Smith Lemon Yellow and Hansa Yellow Medium daffodils. The top left panel uses Daniel Smith Aussie Red Gold as the shadow color and the bottom left panel uses diluted Windsor and Newton Dioxazine Purple.
Helpful hint:
When you are working on your coloring sheets, it is always helpful to take pictures of your project as you go and change the color saturation to zero for a greyscale picture. Doing this will help you understand how the light and dark values of your composition are coming along.
Notice that in the bottom left panel with the white daffodils, the values are much more balanced throughout the image and the effect is a much more realistic color piece over all.
On the right hand panels with the yellow daffodils, even though some may be preferential to certain color palates, the light values are not balanced as shown in the greyscale version. This results in the color piece looking unfinished and cartoonish at normal saturation.
To fix this, one would need to add more dark and light variation in the background of the daffodils.
