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Inspired By Nature

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lovely leaves

It’s time to add some color to our pages! You’ll need some basic color mixing knowledge for this exercise, so if you’ve never had a go at mixing your own colors from the primary colors, then go to my website and join my free mini-course  - Get Started With Gouache. It includes a module that’s all about mixing a rainbow of colors from the three primary colors!

We’ll begin this lesson by replicating the colors of our found leaves using the three primary colors, and I’ll be guiding you as we adjust colors intuitively on our palette. I’ve included a Color Mixing Cheat Sheet for you to refer back to as well!

While our colors are fresh, we’re going to experiment with a loose, fluid painting style over our line drawings. Then we’ll play around with our collection of leaves, arranging them in a circle before using the arrangement as inspiration for another page in our journal. Our last leafy exercise is a hand lettered quote, on a colored background surrounded by painted leaves.

lovely leaves

Let's continue to in full bloom ...