Remembrance

Beverley Brown 08.November.2026 1 comments

Julie here.

I've been in a watercolouring mood lately, I just find it so relaxing. I recently saw a loose watercolour sketch featuring daisies and thought I could use the same approach with these Uniko Poppies from the Remembrance set.

On an A5 panel of watercolour paper, I stamped the poppy heads using a pale ink, such as Altenew's Limestone. Then, I mixed up some different green watercolours in my pallette along with one of Payne's Grey for the darks. You need to do this before you start as you don't want the paper to dry out.

The paper was taped down onto my mat before I added a wash of plain water over the whole panel EXCEPT the poppies!! Then I just aded the various greens and some Payne's Grey and let the water blend the colours. Before the paint was dry I scratched out some lines with the edge of a cut up credit card and left it to dry completely.

Next it was the poppies turn. I used the same water first then paint but for the flowers I had to make sure I did alternate petals to cut out the bleeding from one to the other. Once completely dry I added the centers with more Payne's Grey, adding the stems and more foreground and background grasses with a mix of green and Payne's Grey.

Some splatter of red, white and pale green/yellow complete. No sentiment as I thought it would detract and the whole panel was added to an A5 note card.