Banana Leaves. And then there are the days when it just doesn’t come together. My blending definitely didn’t work in for this lesson. I want to chalk this up to inexperience and then throw it in the trash. But I’ll keep a hold of it, so that at the end of the summer I can… Continue reading Watercolor Day 9
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Watercolor Day 8
“Forest For the Trees”. I know the trunks of my trees aren’t straight, but then the trunks of real trees aren’t perfectly straight, either. But these lean more than most real trees do. I should get better with practice.
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 6
“Leaves”. More leaf practice.
Watercolor Day 4
“Carnival.” I usually work with a limited color palette, but this time I decided to throw in as much color as I wanted to. The only rule I had was that each color had to be used at least three times in different parts of the picture. My brush-handling technique certainly needs work, but I… Continue reading Watercolor Day 4
Watercolor Day 3
Today we have triangles. Yesterday we had circles, tomorrow we will have hexagons, but today–today we have triangles. In warm colors even. I’m titled this piece “Staccato”.
Watercolor Day 2
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m teaching myself to paint watercolors. This is my first real attempt (Day 1 was just lines and squiggles of one color, so I didn’t really want to post it) this summer. I’ve done some watercolor painting in the past–costume plates and some just doodling around with watercolors,… Continue reading Watercolor Day 2