I had lots of paint left over from my Panther’s Picnic painting and a tutorial that will be posted later this month, so I used it up practicing some brush strokes and doing a quick ‘Window View’ and ‘Loose & Free’ for the Doodlewash Prompts.
(and hey! Be sure to visit Doodlewash on Monday. I have a How to Draw a Rooster tutorial coming up!)
It was mostly blue – a mix of QoR Manganese Blue and Iridescent Pearl that I had left over so I did a bunch of stuff at random, paying more attention to what the brush was doing than what I was drawing.
If you look closely at the sunset you might notice that the blue streaks in the sky were practice strokes of leaves done with a dagger brush. I turned the paper sidewise, added color with a mottler and liner brushes, and – voila. I rather cool sunset, I thought.
Some of the other practices bits done with dagger and oval wash brushes.
Life Imitates Doodles 
interesting to see you practicing your strokes.
Thank you, Sharon!
The sky in the painting is beautiful. I have a dagger brush but it hasn’t even been wet! Need to play with it.
Thank you, Susie! You can get some interesting results with a dagger.