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
Tag: traditional
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 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”.
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