Botanical painting. Withered leaf

Plots with dry nature have a number of characteristic features: usually, they are expressive in form (imagine dried rose hips) and limited in color.

In this lesson, Svetlana Lance will tell you how to work with complex, twisted or deformed volumes in drawing and color, as well as how to correctly place color accents using only 5-6 similar colors. At first glance, the task may seem difficult, but in just 38 minutes of the lesson, together with the author, you will write a spectacular dry sheet and work out the necessary skills.

In a programme

• Preparatory drawing: format, layout on the sheet, search for the form.
• How not to yellow the leaf and achieve a natural color
• Reflex distribution and first fill
• Elaboration of veins and denticles
• Working with round volumes
• How to make a leaf look natural
• How to color-separate curled edges from the main body of the sheet and increase the volume
• What details are worth highlighting to enhance the realistic effect
• Final shading