Weekly watercolor thread
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Gannon Beck
I wish I could commit to painting in watercolor daily, but I think that's a bit unrealistic. Nevertheless, I want to paint more and I am starting this thread with the intent of posting to it at least once a week with watercolor paintings and sketches.
Here are a few of my recent efforts. The first two floral paintings were demos I followed out of Julie Pollard's book, "Watercolor Unleashed", and the last two were studies done from the same photograph.
This is a community thread, so let's exert some positive peer pressure on each other and sling some paint!
Studied a watercolor painting I found on pinterest. This is my 3rd try.. Happy with how it turned out finally..
Beautifully done, Jyayasi! I also appreciate that you did it over when it wasn't getting to the level you wanted. I need to get into that mindset as well.
Beautifully done, Jyayasi! I also appreciate that you did it over when it wasn't getting to the level you wanted. I need to get into that mindset as well.
Quick rock study and exploring an expanded palette. Up until this point, I've mainly been using four colors--one red, one yellow, and two blues--one light and one for dark values. This palette has a warm and cool yellow and a warm and cool red(ish). This seems to really help with the color mixing. I can get better grays and browns out of this palette. We'll see what comes of it.
More watercolors from yesterday.
I'm considering these a draft. I need to figure out how to take these sketches and use them to build towards more thought out pieces. As sketches go, these are helpful, but I need to continue to develop my process for finished works.
Amazing work! Together they look like a storyboard.. you can totally add some speech bubbles and make it a comics panel!
Wow! The warm vs cool color balance you achieved is awesome, specially on the second one!
More form study.. managed to leave the white of the paper for highlights..yay!
Preliminary sketch for a longer study. The picture is a mangle of branches, which I find challenging. On the longer study, I'm using masking fluid for the first time. We'll see how it goes!
Thanks a ton, Ganon for starting this thread! I was stalling on my watercolor practice and this may help me get some! I am posting some of my watercolor works here but I must say that these are one of my best ones, done with lots of time and patience.. Generally, I struggle quite a lot with quick watercolor sketches and that’s what I so direly need to work on.
Beautiful work!
I, too, struggle quite a bit. Every attempted painting feels like a high wire act.
