Rose

This rose was a big pain in the butt to draw.

In our garden, I sketched the rose, took color notes, transferred it to my sketchbook, and colored it with watercolor pencils. So far so good. As soon as I added water in, however, it turned into the ugliest rose that I had ever seen. A large percentage of watercolor pencil lines refused to turn into paint.

I was puzzled: The cosmos turned out great, but the rose was a major failure. I contemplated the problem and conclued that it had to be the paper: the cosmos was on 100lb watercolor paper, while the rose was on 70lb sketch paper.

I repeated the whole process again, but this time I did it on 100lb watercolor paper instead. The watercolor pencil lines dissolved nicely, and I was able to produce the base colors for colored pencils. But, still, the texture was not right...

Gotta pay more attention to the rose.

Media: watercolor pencils, colored pencils.