This Beginners' Loose Watercolor Dragonfly Tutorial in Pen and Ink on a Wet in Wet Background has full Real Time instructions on how to achieve a simple pen and ink dragonfly. If you would like some inspiration for your painting this evening, why not give this easy, effective project for an ethereal dragonfly a try? Easy to do, and beautiful too, so relax and have fun making it your own!
Full step by step instructions are given in a calming but expert video environment. Relax and watch how I paint this dragonfly and then follow along with me and achieve the same result. Free downloads for the sketch of this painting and many others are available on my website, dianeantone.com.
Playlist of more tutorials including Dragonflies:
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If you are looking for suggestions as to what to purchase as a beginner, here are my recommendations. If you use these links I will receive a small commission from Amazon which will help to support my channel.
PAINT
Here is a link to a Winsor and Newton starters' paint box which would be ideal for a beginner.
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This is a link to a Winsor and Newton Artists' quality box, which is ideal for a serious student.
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TUBE PAINTS
I always have a tube of White Designers Gouache on hand for lights and corrections
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These colours are very useful and don't usually appear in the sets the manufacturers make:
Naples Yellow
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Quinacridone Gold
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Permanent Rose
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Indigo
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Sepia
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PAPER
Winsor and Newton Watercolour paper pad 140lb 9 x 12 inches ideal for all watercolour techniques.
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Canson MONTVAL watercolour paper block 140lb 9 x 12 inches ideal for all watercolour techniques. Exceptional resiliance and easy to work with.
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BRUSHES
Princeton do a good range of synthetic squirrel brushes. This is a size 10 round.
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And Winsor and Newton Cotman brushes are also good. This is a size 10 round.
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I often use a rigger brush (called script liner in the US) and this is a link to the Cotman range of riggers, this is size 1.
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A size 3 would also be useful.
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Staedtler Noris Karat Aquarell black watercolour pencils
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