Watercolor Day 7

“Stipple Tree”. It’s called that because the leaves were created by stippling–loading the brush with paint and touching just the tip of it to the paper. I don’t think it makes a very convincing tree; I’m looking forward to learning other ways to paint them.

Watercolor Day 5

“Laurel Wreath”. Yay! I’m finally out of abstract shapes, at least for this book’s lessons. Today I got to paint leaves and I’m really happy with the way the wreath came out. I know that I’ll probably look at this at the end of summer and groan about how amateurish it looks, but today I’m… Continue reading Watercolor Day 5

Strange Cargo

This assignment was my first two where we had to work with Photoshop’s native 3D tools. We were given three plain crates that we were required to texture in Photoshop. To say it was frustrating would be an understatement. But on the whole, I think they came out pretty well. All textures and images used… Continue reading Strange Cargo