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Your pottery is awesome, HollisBrown! I'm teaching myself how to paint with watercolors. Half the battle is just learning to let the paint do its thing.    I'm using poo poo quality paint, at some point I need to pony up and get better pigments. The burnt umber I have right now is tragically gritty.
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Finally started taking formal watercolor classes, here's the result of class 1: Hooray pear. I realized today that I have never painted a still life, and hoo boy you learn soooo much faster when you're painting what's in front of you. Can't wait to see how I progress over the next few weeks.
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Bubbacub posted:Yeah, isn't it fun? You'll use watercolors for years and the medium will still surprise you, but the initial jump from making smudgy blobs to having the control to render images is always exciting. You have a great start! Post more paintings as you go. Thank you! Yeah, I made a million smudgy blobs before I got the confidence to try painting actual things. Taking classes is really increasing my output; it's nice how class makes me want to practice what I learn on my own. I painted this still life on Monday:  And this still life was from my last class, where we were supposed to experiment with mixing grays:  I felt kind of stuck with this painting. I don't know if it's because the setup for the still life was a little too far from where I was sitting, but I had trouble judging value and shadow placement this time, on top of almost completely neglecting highlights. This, along with feeling lazy, resulted less of a real-life rendering of the still life than I would like. I'm going to practice fading out my edges more without scrubbing them to death. Carotid fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Jun 26, 2014 |
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Carlton Banks Teller posted:Working on a triptych for a summer class and have my 1st and 3rd 6"x6" panels worked out: Yeah, this is awesome. Just finished my forth watercolor class, we did a standard still life in color:  I ran out of time before I could darken the shadows on the table, but overall I'm pretty pleased with it. I feel like I'm improving a lot on making things look more realistic. Carotid fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Jul 9, 2014 |
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Jul 9, 2014 04:24
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DEO3 posted:Here's my latest, I don't feel I'm quite finished with it, but it needs to be submitted to a show in a couple of hours - so time's up! Loving this, great job. My boyfriend loves to talk about history/mythology/folk tales, and one of his favorite stories is the Navajo myth of the Coyote throwing the stars into the sky. So i wanted to do a watercolor painting of it for his birthday: 
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Jan 5, 2015 04:17
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One of the reasons why I chose watercolor over acrylic was because I knew my lazy rear end would ruin too many brushes from not cleaning them thoroughly. More coyote-related painting, this time a coyote skull: 
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May 26, 2015 02:15
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 This is watercolor and brush pen, I used a warm red, cool yellow, and cool blue primary color palette. Pretty happy with the transparency of the color, I've been having trouble laying down layers that were too thick.
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Jan 23, 2016 06:59
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More improvised watercolor painting: This is my biggest improvised piece yet, at 11" x 15". The reindeer skull one I posted earlier is in a small watercolor book I made, which is about 7.5" x 9.5" when open. This one was particularly fun since I had enough space to use a big fluffy 1" oval wash brush for the paint. The ink is a Pentel brush pen, a water brush pen filled with sumi ink for large areas, and a Pitt pen for details. Pretty happy with this one. Carotid fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Apr 6, 2016 |
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Apr 6, 2016 00:14
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I feel like I can smell that page. I mean that in the best way.
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Apr 8, 2016 05:32
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Yup, echoing everyone that those are beautiful. I'm still working on developing a confident hand when inking. Do you have any particular tips/suggestions, or is it mostly a matter of practice-practice-practice?
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Apr 9, 2016 00:35
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I found an old Moleskine watercolor book I haven't painted in in a while (the paper quality is ehh) and decided to give it another go. Turns out the paper can hold more layers of color than I thought, and I do like the smooth texture. I got sick for Memorial Day weekend so I've had plenty of free time at home to churn out a few pages:  
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May 29, 2016 18:08
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Double-post for coyote:
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Jun 2, 2016 05:28
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 Did a bowl of ramen, still learning how to use colored pencils in a satisfactory way that complements watercolor.
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Jun 13, 2016 01:05
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^^^ Fantastic, VP. Tulips in springtime are Chicago's way of saying "I'm sorry about winter, babe. Will you take me back?"
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Jun 16, 2016 05:58
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Pomegranate:
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Jun 24, 2016 03:18
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Avocados:
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Jul 3, 2016 04:44
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Dual-sex butterfly, watercolor, brush pen and metallic Sharpies:
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Sep 5, 2016 21:18
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This is a drawing one of my coworker's child clients had done: I saw it at my coworker's desk and was really struck by the design. So I made this watercolor painting inspired by it: 
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Oct 3, 2016 05:30
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Another cool drawing by one of my coworker's kid clients: Inspiring another watercolor painting: 
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Oct 30, 2016 21:07
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Blue shroomin'   
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Nov 13, 2016 18:00
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Flower rod:
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Nov 27, 2016 02:17
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Rainy late November: Stylin' new glasses: 
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Nov 29, 2016 05:36
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Fair Isle mittens:
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Dec 2, 2016 04:43
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 It's really loving cold in Chicago right now
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Dec 16, 2016 02:40
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Lovebirds Pete and Bert:
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Dec 26, 2016 16:53
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 More bird Edit:  For jellyfish Carotid fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Dec 27, 2016 |
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Dec 27, 2016 04:10
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Breaking in a new notebook with a crow woman:
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Dec 30, 2016 16:56
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HungryMedusa posted:Carotid - those sketches are all delightful. I would love to see something in an opaque medium from you. I think you would kill it. I've been considering trying out gouache, actually. I used acrylics for a little bit in the past but I don't like how they make notebook pages stick together. Does anyone have recommendations for a good brand for gouache? I don't mind starting off with the good stuff.
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Dec 31, 2016 17:49
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 A rooster with some failed Sharpie feather experimentation for 2017
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Jan 1, 2017 18:29
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Practicing some negative space painting, definitely some room for improvement:
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Jan 6, 2017 14:56
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Yes, it's based on an exercise in Gordon MacKenzie's "Complete Watercolorist's Essential Notebook." All of my recent paintings have been very fixed with bold lines and solid colors, so I felt the need to practice something different and more fluid.
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Jan 6, 2017 20:33
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More watercolor and metallic Sharpies:
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Jan 15, 2017 05:00
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More watercolor:
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Jan 17, 2017 02:10
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Munoma posted:Is this supposed to be something? No story, just made it up as I drew.
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Jan 17, 2017 03:58
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Still on an ornate ladies kick: Good lord, Daniel Smith watercolors are SO vibrant 
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Jan 29, 2017 21:15
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Sodalite genuine is great for hair:
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Jan 30, 2017 15:02
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More ladies:  I'm dipping my toes into mixing skin tones. I think I'm starting to figure it out. Definitely need more value though.
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Feb 2, 2017 14:36
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That's a nice coq you got there
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Feb 15, 2017 23:18
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Avshalom posted:hail kokhabiel Love your style, great job. More watercolor:  
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  I've been practicing faces lately; slowly but surely getting better with proportions.
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