A 365 day art project… one drawing a day
Posted a little early… I like this better, as I keep playing around with the ideas… I like the wet loose backgrounds. I don’t want to hang it on the wall, but it was fun to paint, and I like looking at it.
I used Daniel Smith and Qor paints… I like the way the Qor fans out and makes little fireworks on the damp page. I have to figure out how to use that to my advantage.
From a video tutorial on youtube by lazywonderbrush… I did mine a little differently, playing around with it (which I liked). But my poor little birdie is a bit chubby… he can barely fly! I need more work with her technique but I really enjoy it.
Following Lazy Wonderbrush’s youtube videos… very helpful. 🙂 Check them out! Why don’t I do watercolor every day?? It is not easy, but is so relaxing.
I made a tiny sketch of a painting by Rose Ann Hayes (I think I copied her bluebells earlier this year!) I only had a few moments, but I will try a larger version later, with ink, too.
Watercolors are so sweet. I love them.
Okay, I realize I haven’t given gouache a fair shake. Or coloring books, for that matter. But I don’t particularly enjoy either. I can think of times when gouache paints would be great… honestly it may really be these pans. No other company that I could find makes gouache in pans, and maybe that’s why… I just don’t like the way they feel. I am not totally giving up on them. I think I’d really like my results if I do a few more things… but I so enjoy the way watercolor paint moves and feels that I think for now I will spend the little art time I have on ink or watercolor, or something I really like laying down on the paper. I’ll come back to gouache later, and I do think sometime I will try some tubes and see if I like those better.
I followed a video by Lisa Marie of Sketching Scarlet on youtube. Her idea. I tried it twice.
PS if you like to paint, and you like coloring books, you may like to try these pans. They actually were really good on the coloring book page and are super vivid. They go on and look like markers to me. Once on the page, you can’t really move the paint around much like you can with watercolor (see the dark green blob between the two fish?) And they layer like some of the alcohol markers do.
I have been eager to try gouache paints. I’d never even heard of them before this year… a 600 year old medium, kind of a marriage of watercolor and acrylic in behavior. Can be watered down and flow together like watercolor, can be used light on top of dark like acrylic, can be built up in heavy strokes like oil… Maybe the best of both worlds? I found this set of caran d’ache gouache pans, the only pan set I could find… They remind me of tempera paints, and even say poster paints in one place. A kind of chalky finish of the final product I’m not crazy about. I can see the benefit to using tubes instead of pans, and being able to use thicker paint. It was strange after all this time learning to leave white spaces white, to now add them in with paint… I don’t know if I liked it or not!
The set came with a number 8 caran d’ache brush as well, which works nicely so far. I followed a video by Myriam Tillson, at a vlog called Myriam’s Illustrations on Youtube. Mine didn’t end up looking much like hers… but enough that I knew I’d better say it was her idea! I think tomorrow I may try a more coloring book type thing.
A fairly quick sketch of Rainer. Note to self… confirm a pen is completely waterproof before painting over it…
This evening I felt completely unmotivated. So I decided to just color in the sketch I liked best from two days ago. Actually… a little painting always feels nice.
Tried a masking fluid pen with good results.
A quickly done sketch. Sorry for the late post, I didn’t get it in before midnight. I’ll do a more detailed one tonight. Busy busy busy right now with work, and it’s getting harder to make myself keep up!
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