Blue Hydrangea in Coloured Pencil Part 1

A botanical art tutorial by Emma Tildesley.

To complement the Blue Orchid we have Blue Hydrangea as our Coloured Pencil Project. There are so many colours in these little sepals and some nice shadows that really give us that 3D effect.

  • Subject: Flowers
  • Topic: Hydrangeas
  • Medium: Coloured pencil
  • Access: included with membership, or buy this tutorial on its own

What you'll need

  • Paper: Saunders Waterford 140lbs Hot Pressed size A4
  • Faber-Castell Polychromos: White 101, Cold Grey 1 230, Earth Green 172 and 15 more
  • Caran d'Ache Luminance: 1 colour
  • Other tools: Putty Rubber, Pergamano Embossing Tool 0.5

The full colour list comes with the tutorial, in its materials download.

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