LOOSER strokes

Flowers and watercolours are the perfect partners; like getting lost in the spiralling petals of a rose, the more you explore watercolour, the more you will discover its subtle surprises.

I am still making discoveries after all these years, but the freshness of colour racing across a wet page, triggered by a single dab of the brush, gets me every time.

For this project, having a real rose stem in front of you will make a big difference. The stem is a series of curves that extend out to leaf branches, one on top of another. No two loose watercolour