Cuprinol 5122247 Garden Shades Exterior Woodcare, Sweet Pea, 1L

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This is my trusty paintbox (what a mess) with me mixing up some purple to go into the green on the stem. I favour Winsor & Newton paints, and much prefer using Winsor & Newton series 7 brushes to any other sort. Now plot in the network of veins you can see within the petals. Concentrate on getting the pattern correct, and anchor the veins at the edge of the petal with extra little brush marks.

Work into your darkest areas with a blue purple mix. Be brave and don’t dilute it too much. I love the colour you get when you mix Cobalt blue with purple lake and often use this mix to add dark areas. The sweet pea flower has 5 sepals and 5 petals, and their leaves are hairless. Each leaflet consists of two pairs of leaves and a terminal tendril which helps the plant to cling as it climbs upwards. Sweet peas have winged stems and the leaves carry distinct veins.

Create your own colour

Sweet peas are beautiful flowers, and a joy to paint. This blog is a step by step guide to painting the Two-flowered Everlasting Sweet Pea Lathyrus grandiflorus. About Sweet peas Test a small area first for colour and adhesion: Colour the final colour will depend upon the type of surface, previous treatment and number of coats applied. If using more than one can it is advisable to mix them together in a container or finish in a corner before starting a new can. Adhesion: if adhesion is inadequate on previously coated surfaces, lightly sand before application. Be mindful that it is waxed-enriched and that once these waxes are dried, they act to repel liquids, which would include an additional coats. Don't try to coat the whole project with one coat before getting onto the next coat. Instead it is better to paint sections in in time chunks of 2-4 hours.

Here the illustration is pretty much finished. All that I altered is adding some darks. With the purples, these were quite an extreme mix of purple, brown, and prussian blue. More detail on the stem and calyx, this is alizarin crimson and purple lake, with a touch of vandyke brown. These [ T03305 and T03306] are two from a group of paintings, started after a holiday the artist spent in Canada and the USA in the summer of 1978 and completed between February and March 1979. Six of the paintings were first shown in her exhibition at the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, in March 1979. Using a pencil, and drawing direct onto your watercolour paper, draw the flower. I like to use the Pentel P205 mechanical pencil, and my current favourite hot press watercolour paper is Global Arts Fluid 100.

I then add the tiniest dashes of yellow to the inside regions of the claw petal. This not only echoes the colouration of the flower, but adds something of a “pop” where the dark central zone abuts the yellow. As Garden Shades often goes on directly to the wood, without a primer, sometimes it will soak deep into the wood and this can create the need for a third coat. This may be noticeable with rougher woods, open end grains or indeed deep colours. If wood has been exposed and dried out for a long period of time, this may also draw the more of the product away from the surface and into the wood structure.