Work from "101 Watercolor techniques"

Work from "101 Watercolor techniques" - Exercise 005

This exercise was a bit of a struggle for a beginner. Believe it or not the result below is the third attempt. The point of the exercise was to get a result of depth on the paper using only analogous colours and without using color gradation. I am sure I learned something from it. What I think I struggled with among other things was "water control" - keeping the water within the small leaf areas from running.

Learning:

As I went along I had a little bit more freedom with the strokes.
I started to notice how the exercise author was using negative space and tried to replicate it.

Comments

Simple apple painting

Not sure if this is more successful than my first fruit painting but I certainly thought about it more. I tried to use lifting to get the white spots on the skin (which I think worked ok) and for the reflections around the edge (which didn't really work). I also tried adding white after for the waxy white part of the skin. I know it's not recommended I just wanted to see what it would look like.

Work from Everyday Watercolor - Day 3 - Triangles

This is an exercise in brush control and glazing. It worked better than my first attempt at glazing. I only had one spot where the color started lifting. (Left side bright yellow triangle) Materials Strathmore 400 paper W&N Cotman Gamboge W&N Cotman Permanent Rose New to me: New color: Using W&N Cotman Gamboge New color: Using W&N Cotman Permanent Rose Learned from this Triangles are very forgiving. If you go past the end you can just make them bigger. When glazing there is a little bit of a "hump" when transitioning from paper to paint that requires practice not to jiggle and make the line waver.

Crashing water

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