In late February, the bromeliad illustration I was working on was packed away for the movers at this stage of completion:
Unfinished watercolor of bromeliad in February 2010 © Wren Allen
The external sides of the leaves were finished, but the root/earth and the internal leaves were still unmodelled. Yesterday I spent most of the day working on the internal side of the leaves. One challenge was that the green mixtures lifted as additional washes were laid on. To get around this, I layered fine strokes of water-soluble colored pencil over the green wash mix. Here is the result:
Bromeliad botanical illustration, stage 5, © Wren M. Allen
