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This afternoon was the first class in a 4-week watercolour course, on Saturdays, offered through the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. The artist-instructor started us off with a warm-up exercise, painting autumn leaves using a few different techniques. These included mixing colour on the page rather than on the palette, using an underpainting colour, creating neutral colours by mixing complementary colours, and more!
All are techniques that I've used in the past, but it's always interesting to see how different artists adapt these techniques to their own artistic styles. This one's unfinished, but I like the way that maple leaf came out.