This time we had to do five watercolors and then do pen and ink on top and then five pen and ink then watercolors on top. I liked this process because we didnt have to be as detailed with the watercolors because we had the pen for the details. I didnt really care which I did first, the watercolors or the pen. I did all of these on Illustration board. I liked that the board was thicker than watercolor paper, but it took a while to dry. I also think it would have helped if I would have put gesso on the board, but I didnt so the water and the watercolors wanted to soak into the board very quickly making it hard to blend colors or do washes.

The water lily is done in pen and ink first and then I put watercolors over it. I like the way the lily pads, in the background, turned out. They are simple and just gestured, but I think they work well for a background element. The field of tulips was done with watercolors first and then pen and ink on top. I had fun with this on and started to just put big dots or splaches of color for where the tulips were going to go and then added a few lines of a blue color for the sky and let the watercolors do the work and blend. I also tried to do Terry's five colors next to each other and then the opposite of the middle, but only once its dry so it doesnt blend. I did blue-violet, violet, red-violet, red and red-orange for my five colors and then yellow-green for my opposite color. For this one I dont think I let the watercolors dry enough because I had a hard time getting the Sharpie to work, or mark.