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How To Draw and Paint a Bird of Paradise Flower (for beginners) and a Cheap Paint Review!
Hi friends! I developed this project to satisfy three viewer requests: 1. Paint a Valentines card, 2. paint a bird of paradise flower and 3 review the MozArt Komorebi watercolor paints.
These paints remind me a lot of Gansai Tambi watercolors, you can see my review of those here. In today’s video we will sketch and paint a bird of paradise and discuss the difference between eastern and western watercolor paints. This is a great beginner project of warm up for a day of painting. Have fun with it!
Supplies:
Watercolor Paint: MozArt Komorebi
Creative Mark Mimik #8 round watercolor brush
Watercolor pencil for sketching
Reference photo from this amazing flower photo reference book
Review of the MozArt Komorebi watercolors.
Product details: 40 full pans of colors that are housed in individual full pans that can be removed. Comes with a paintable color chart, plastic liner that can be used as a mixing surface and metal tin.
Pros: Cost: $25 Rich vibrant colors including 6 neon and 8 metallics Contains good bright clear primaries as well as convenience mixes Works well on lightly sized paper like art journals and cardstock as the paint is a bit thick.
Cons: No pigment info available Does not move much on paper compared to traditional watercolor paints No refill pans available
Who is this paint best for? This is an “eastern style” watercolor paint which means it is thicker and designed for use on unsized paper like rice paper so I would recommend this paint for cardmakers, scrapbookers, art journalers and papercrafters as it will be much easier to work with on uncoated papers and cardstocks than traditional watercolors. Also because I can’t find pigment info the colors are probably not lightfast so I wouldn’t recommend them for permanent work that will be hung in sunlight. They should be just fine in a journal though.
Bottom line: If you like the popular Gansai Tambi watercolors you will like the MozArt Komorebi too as they feel and behave the same as far as I can tell from my work with both brands of paint. Good paint for the price!
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