How To Paint Loose Watercolour Sweet Peas

How To Paint Loose Watercolour Sweet Peas

This is a quick and easy sweet pea painting tutorial.

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Soundtrack composed by Taran Stormes Martino

Paper Daler Rowney Aquafine cold-pressed paper

Colours we used
Sap Green
Permanent Rose
French Ultramarine Blue
Green Gold
Paynes Grey
Cobalt Blue Deep

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[sallykirkstephens]

Oh finally a lefthander ! I really find this helpful !

[wendykelcey]

I was never happy with my sweet peas, but after watching your tutorial I’m ready to try it again! Thank you Harriet!

[JoyceDlugokinski]

Beautiful….I have difficulty in trying to be perfect so I think this tutorial is just the ticket to help me paint beautifully whilst relaxed. Thank you ♥️

[tonivergara]

Several Scrumptious Sweet Peas, Spectacularly Satisfying! 😊

[annenglish]

Thank 😊 you Harriet!!! Relaxing to watch you create the Sweet Peas!!! Looks like I'll have to give it a go!

[cherylthomas]

They are so fun to paint and it's hard to make myself stop

[jessamine]

Thank you, I Love this style of painting. So pretty, so effortless!! Would like to do more flowers/fruit this way?

[janetomaszewski]

Beautiful...love sweet peas...they are such a happy flower...

[sonia-nkkr]

So lovely ! I am looking forward to trying to do it and greetings from Italy

[ocelotpurr]

Thank you so much! I love the sweet peas I created with this method. You are such an inspiration to me.

[kathrynledward]

You make it look so effortless Harriet. Now I have your books going to have a go tomorrow 😀

[bizzybee]

Wow! You made that look so~oooo easy! And it turned out so pretty. It is strange, but, as a beginner, I find these "easy" paintings the hardest to do. I watched a Diane Antone video on youtube a few days ago, where she literally painted simple X's all over the paper then added a few dots, or in some instances a simple line down the middle, creating a page covered in beautiful translucent butterflies. She then embellished the butterflies by adding antennae, eyes, and random squiggly designs on the wings, accented with white, silver, and gold, gel pens. The final painting was much prettier than I thought it would be, as I watched her making child like X's in various shades using just 3 paint colors in varying combinations. Being fairly new to painting, but having not painted in quite a while due to a recent move, I thought it would be a fun and easy project to begin with. Boy~ was I ever wrong! It was absolutely one of the worst things I have ever painted! She made it look so easy, ! So much so, that I first I was even a bit critical of the child like simplicity of the painting. But my painting ended up looking exactly like a young child painted it! So, needless to say, I have a new appreciation for how artists like Diane, and you, make really simple but beautiful paintings look so easy. Because they are definitely not as "easy" as you make them appear to be. I have painted much more complex paintings that turned out a whole lot prettier. Easy, isn't quite as easy as it seems, in fact, I think easy, may be harder after all.

[tkkozeluh]

I very much admire your ability to visualize a project and then break it down into seemingly simple steps. Very beautiful! Sweet peas have always been a favorite of mine. Thank you!

[nayhp]

Simple and clean painting, pure beauty and charm. Thanks!

[Carina-]

Wonderful loose painting!
Lovely!
Thank you very much Harriet!

[VeretenoVids]

I love sweet peas! So nice of your friend to share so you can make such a lovely painting! I grow sweet peas annually, but this year my seedlings were wiped out by the crazy weather we had in April--80F/27C one week and then several inches of snow the next. I'm so happy to see that other gardeners had a good year with them!

[vickistroud]

Thank you for this fun painting of sweet peas. It’s perfect timing since mine are just starting to bloom. I’ll have to try to paint them. They are so delicate and so fragrant…one of my favorites. I truly enjoy your channel…thanks again!

[dhags]

Thank you again for your time and expertise on how to look, but yet simplify! It really helps to not get burdened with the details for this kind of painting! I have sweet peas of my own to look at, but they are the bright pink variety her in the U.S. I really enjoyed it!! :0)

[katrinagarner]

I love sweet peas and this painting is gorgeous, thankyou! I'm planning to order your miniature brush set so want to wait for those before I attempt this painting 🥰

[janeconnors]

One of my favourite flowers. You make it look so effortless. My interpretations of your flowers are so hit and miss. Mostly miss but I'm hoping by practicing one day I might be able to produce something acceptable 😀