This is an old corkscrew watercolor painting I painted last night.  It measures 7.5 x 10 inches and is on cold press watercolor paper.  There is flickering technique involoved with an old toothbrush where watercolor is being applied on the tooth brush and is being flicked on to the taped surface.  The corkscrew is done on gradated watercolor wash and the background in a gradated wash as well.  It was fun to do this small objects just to get warm up for painting something larger.

7.5 x 10 inches Watercolor Painting - Cock Screw #2

My watercolor painting today is a 7.5 x 10 inches corkscrew.  This is a simple cork screw and it has a wooden handle.   I painted the background first with a wet in wet wash.  I use light blue on the top which changes into a yellowish tint at the bottom.  I carefully paint around the cork screw with clean water making sure the watercolor paper is wet.  Then I apply the paint on top of the wet wash and let the paint mix itself on the paper by picking up the paper and rotate it so the color will mix well with each other on the watercolor paper.  After the background has been dry, I painted the wooden handle of the cork screw applying layers of watercolor paint and be careful to leave the highlights.  I have problem with the watercolor paint drying too fast on me so after painting several layers on the handle and when it is completely dry, I use wet on wet technique on my last layer.  It gives me more time to do the dark part of the handle and some lifting of the highlight in this watercolor painting.  Then it comes to the metal part of the cork screw where I use a mixture of blue and grey for the shadow and carefully painted the highlight with clean water as I go along and make sure the blue grey shadow on the round metal does not have a sharp edge.  I really have to work fast on this.  Last but not least, the shadow is painted with a mixture of red blue and grey color.  It was quite challenging and I found that I have to work really fast and loose.