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
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.
Rooms With a View?
The last project from last term that I haven’t yet posted was our last (hopefully forever!) assignment using Photoshop’s native 3D tools. Of course, now that I’ve said that, I’ll end up getting hired to do 3D work in Photoshop as my job. Like the crates, we were given three room corners and were required… Continue reading Rooms With a View?
Watercolor Day 6
“Leaves”. More leaf practice.
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
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
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
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