I wanted to get a posterised effect of these poppies so I put the photograph into photoshop and went into filter gallery and selected posterisation.

I then printed off a black and white A4 print and added 1cm square grid with a biro.

I chose the Langton 300g rough watercolour paper and scaled up the grid to get an accurate outline sketch.
I then painted in the area where I wanted to mask off, using blue masking fluid, I use blue as I can see where I have masked off.

Once I have rubbed off the masking fluid I continued to paint the base colours in and started shading with coloured penclis

And then continue painting in the details layer by layer, here is the finished painting.

I do like to try out new styles so after going to see the Milton Avery exhibition in London, I was very inspired. Landscape of Mwnt, West Wales Acrylic on board.