Painting a floral skull using watercolors and gouache

This is a commissioned artwork to be made as a cover for a scrapbook for a group of med students. This took more time and effort than most of my previous work since I had to draw before I paint. I usually avoid drawing first if I can get away with it because the pencil strokes couldn't be erased when it's been painted over. This one's a bit more complicated to paint directly.

It's been fun to make this and a good thing that I filmed while painting because I had to redo the whole thing and resorted to graphic design tools and resources. Client had further changes after artwork was already done.

I'm posting the video at the bottom of this post if you want a preview of how I did the painting process.

Thanks for dropping by!

Supplies used:

Canson XL Watercolor paper

Winsor and Newton Cotman paint

Marie's Gouache

Silver Black Velvet #6