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
Category: Traditional
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 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
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
Introducing Kitty Hawk
Since I’m still working on this week’s project, I thought I’d post an assignment from last term. This is the rough pencil sketch of a turnaround for a creature I created by merging two different creatures together. In this case, a cat and an American Kestrel. If you’re thinking “griffon”, yes, there’s some similarity. Only… Continue reading Introducing Kitty Hawk
Freyr and Gerda
Or Frey and Gerd, depending on what version of the story you’re reading. This is the best of my college work. I focused on black and white illustration while in college. I love doing line work like this. If I were to redo it now, I’d use a pen with a flexible nib, but I… Continue reading Freyr and Gerda