Intuitive mark making exercise: watercolor flowers @kristinvanleuven
Intuitive mark making exercise: watercolor flowers  @kristinvanleuven
Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
In this video I show you the marks you need to make to learn intuitive mark making, specifically for flowers. At the end I show the process of painting flowers using each of the brush strokes we learned together.


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My first book, Modern Watercolor
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My second book, Your Year in Art: Watercolor
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Flower color guide
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Flower color theory
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Supplies list and links:

Paint

Lately I've been using handmade paint by letter sparrow and I'm loving it!
lettersparrow.com

winsor and newton tube paints
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(can select paint color and tube size)

Ceramic palette amzn.to/3jV41Gb
Paint colors in my Winsor and Newton palette
Hookers green light
emerald
viridian
cad yellow hue
lemon yellow hue
cad red deep
turquoise
Opera rose

winsor and newton cotman travel pans (student grade)
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Daler Rowny 48 watercolor pan set
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Paper

arches cold press watercolor paper
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Baohong watercolor paper
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Student grade paper
canson cold press amzn.to/3z6L9bP

“Just Journal It” watercolor notebook
Etsy: etsy.com/shop/JUSTJOURNALIT?ref=shop-header-name&listing_id=946783696&from_page=listing
Instagram: instagram.com/just_journal_it_?igsh=dGc1NDhrNG5nM25q



Brushes

princeton round 2
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Princeton round size 8
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Princeton flat brush
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Princeton angular
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Polina Bright Brushes
link: polinabright.com/hellolovelypeople
code: Hellolovelypeople
for 10% off on her site
(My favorite is the round brush size 0)



Masking fluid w/ brush
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Masking fluid - fine detail
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Masking tape
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Travel watercolor kit
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Intuitive mark making exercise: watercolor flowers

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