Water Color Leaf Contour Line Drawing
1. Collect at least 6-7 different leaves
2. Draw one at a time onto your paper using the contour line drawing technique
3. Overlap and place them so they go off the page
4. Cover the majority of the paper, overlap and off the edge
5. Outline with super fine point sharpies
6. Choose a color scheme of warm or cool
7. Using water color pencils color each leaf using the technique Mrs. Meyer demonstrated with the layering of the colors to blend (stay in the leaf don’t blend over all the leaves at once)
8. Use a water color brush and gently blend the colors with little amounts of water
9. Let dry overnight
10. Use the opposite color scheme(for example, warm color scheme opposite is cool and cool color scheme opposite is warm) to color in the background, then blend gently with the wet brush
11. Clean up all edges
1. Collect at least 6-7 different leaves
2. Draw one at a time onto your paper using the contour line drawing technique
3. Overlap and place them so they go off the page
4. Cover the majority of the paper, overlap and off the edge
5. Outline with super fine point sharpies
6. Choose a color scheme of warm or cool
7. Using water color pencils color each leaf using the technique Mrs. Meyer demonstrated with the layering of the colors to blend (stay in the leaf don’t blend over all the leaves at once)
8. Use a water color brush and gently blend the colors with little amounts of water
9. Let dry overnight
10. Use the opposite color scheme(for example, warm color scheme opposite is cool and cool color scheme opposite is warm) to color in the background, then blend gently with the wet brush
11. Clean up all edges