Category Archives: Painting Glass in Watercolor

Glass Bottles in Watercolor / Painting In Progress

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Painting glass is fun and challenging at the same time. Painting in steps is key. I set up a still life, changed the colors of two of my bottles, added masking fluid to keep some of the highlights, put my first glaze on, added the shadows, then painted deeper darker colors of the bottles, took the masking fluid off, and put in a few more highlights – that’s it! This is my second painting using my new Winsor/Newton Cotman student grade paints. They did well, however it was my first time using my “hot” press paper (not rough, but smooth) and couldn’t quite figure out at first if it was the paints or paper that didn’t like a lot of lifting. I came to the conclusion that it was the paper. I plan on painting a lot more glass now and then. Maybe I’ll try my cold press paper instead to see if I like painting the look of glass on that better.

Final painting – “Glass Bottles”
My sketch is finished, I painted the furthest bottle with the first glaze, put masking fluid on the bottles to save highlights, and added some green on the two bottles to have the look of a reflection.

Until next time,

Happy Creating,

Vicki

“Painting a Ball Jar of Flowers in Watercolor / Floral Joy”

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This is the second painting I have finished from the beautiful flowers my son Jonathan and his girlfriend Molly gave me for my birthday, September 13th. I had divided the flowers into containers and having fun creating the paintings. In this painting I made the hydrangeas a little bluer, and painted some a lovely lime green as they were. I added a few golden rod and changed the Ball jar at the last minute from the one that said wide mouth to one that said Mason.

I drew my design, painted the background, table, and jar, then started painting the stems and flowers. My new #2 and #6 round brushes were my “work horses” for this painting. It was a joy to paint with them.

“Let’s Paint Roses in a Pretty Bowl”

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Hello Everyone,

I love Roses, they are all in bloom in our garden except the pink ones we have in the front garden. I also love putting cut flowers in our pretty dishes as a center piece for the table.

Such loveliness to capture in a painting. I find the more I paint, the more challenging some compositions are for me, but that’s good. That means I continue to learn. Don’t give up if you are starting to paint in Watercolor! Remember mistakes are good, that means we will all learn for the next painting, right?

Happy Creating,

Vicki