Beautiful blossom. This step by step lesson shows how cropping your work can make a big difference.

Photo of blossom

Drawing of blossom in water colour pencil

Addition of wax colour red violet

Addition of wax colour carnation pink

Addition of wax colours brown, yellow green and apricot.

A dark neutral water colour wash added to the background.
A cropped version of the painting. The final painting cropped and the cropped photograph below.
