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I am relatively new to watercolor, and had only done a little wet-on-dry before. For this drawing, I used all three techniques: wet-on-wet for sky and open water, wet-on-dry for snow drift contours and cave water, and dry-on-dry for snow texture. I really like the dry-on-dry results. It took a bit of practice, and I also found that different water brushes yielded different results. The Sakura brush was easiest to use, for me. I'm certain I'll be using all three techniques from here on out. This was a great lesson! -
I have used watercolors before, briefly, but never really spent time learning to mix colors. Previously, I would use a "close" color from the colors I had, but not spend the time to mix my own. I was definitely able to achieve the colors I wanted, and found that the exercises on tint, tone, and shade made a huge difference for me in getting the colors "right." Focusing on colors forced me to think about tint, tone, and shade, as well as color gradations. Learning how to mix colors was actually quite exciting for me because I now realize that I can create virtually any color I want with a few basic colors. It will radically reduce the size of my field drawingkit, as well!!
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I have done this exercise before in a live drawing class. The instructor spent half an hour roaming the studio reminding us to absolutely, positively not look at our drawings while we were doing them. Virtually the entire class needed to be "reminded" of this several times throughout the session. I'm not making any assumptions about anyone else, but I will speak for myself and say that it I find it virtually impossible to do a blind drawing where the line ends exactly where it is supposed to. As a reference, I've attached a recent drawing I did of some fish vertebrae I found on the beach and my "newt."
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I did a comparison of winter buds from three different trees: oak, cottonwood, and sweetgum. I was actually surprised with the differences I observed, and am starting to get into the habit of asking questions about nature differences in general. For my journal, I actually prefer drawings over words, but did find the process of thinking about questions helped me to differentiate the buds in the drawings.
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I thought this was an interesting example of both patterns (rings of Purple Tooth shelf mushrooms), and also energy flow of decomposition. The mushrooms had obviously been on the wood for a long time.
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@Viki Thank you for commenting. Yes, even though it looks like a cartoon, that is what the Fly Agaric actually looks like (it is poisonous!!).
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@Laurie Thank you so much for your comments. I found doing the drawing and painting incredibly soothing myself!
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The shadows are so nice! I remember when I first began drawing a couple years ago and how excited I was when I could finally do shadows -- makes all the difference!
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I noticed a lot of variation in similar static objects, like entire color ranges of leaves from the same tree. I was in a fairly busy city park, so did not see much wildlife. I heard numerous birds, but was a bit frustrated I couldn't identify them. I was motivated to ID the trees surrounding me with iNaturalist so that I could properly label them in my journal.
I really enjoyed experimenting with different media, although I know that is later in the course!
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@Kathryn Thank you! I'm still getting the feel for the watercolors and how they work with the pencil. I've used watercolor pencils before, and colored pencils, but never watercolors with pencil drawings. Fun to see how it all works together ...
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@Victor Thank you! Yeah, I'm not too happy with the shadow. I think I should have blended it more ...
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First attempt at using stippling. I think it works pretty well for the smooth texture of the mushrooms. I hadn't used this method before and it is not as time consuming as I thought it would be.
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Definitely getting a feel for which shading techniques work for me on which subjects. Stippling on lemon worked well, I think. I'm not so sure about cross-hatching on pomegranate, but maybe it works.
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From photo, I could see different textures of feathers, and also get general geometric shape of subject fairly quickly. This is a technique issue, but it was hard to get fine details of shading rendered with watercolors. I'd use colored pencils in the future. Photo allowed me to get shape of eyes, legs, and beak fairly accurately, which might be difficult from live observation.
I am relatively new to watercolor, and had only done a little wet-on-dry before. For this drawing, I used all three techniques: wet-on-wet for sky and open water, wet-on-dry for snow drift contours and cave water, and dry-on-dry for snow texture. I really like the dry-on-dry results. It took a bit of practice, and I also found that different water brushes yielded different results. The Sakura brush was easiest to use, for me. I'm certain I'll be using all three techniques from here on out. This was a great lesson! 
kit, as well!! 
I did a comparison of winter buds from three different trees: oak, cottonwood, and sweetgum. I was actually surprised with the differences I observed, and am starting to get into the habit of asking questions about nature differences in general. For my journal, I actually prefer drawings over words, but did find the process of thinking about questions helped me to differentiate the buds in the drawings. 
I thought this was an interesting example of both patterns (rings of Purple Tooth shelf mushrooms), and also energy flow of decomposition. The mushrooms had obviously been on the wood for a long time. 
I noticed a lot of variation in similar static objects, like entire color ranges of leaves from the same tree. I was in a fairly busy city park, so did not see much wildlife. I heard numerous birds, but was a bit frustrated I couldn't identify them. I was motivated to ID the trees surrounding me with iNaturalist so that I could properly label them in my journal.
I really enjoyed experimenting with different media, although I know that is later in the course! 
First attempt at using stippling. I think it works pretty well for the smooth texture of the mushrooms. I hadn't used this method before and it is not as time consuming as I thought it would be. 
Definitely getting a feel for which shading techniques work for me on which subjects. Stippling on lemon worked well, I think. I'm not so sure about cross-hatching on pomegranate, but maybe it works. 
From photo, I could see different textures of feathers, and also get general geometric shape of subject fairly quickly. This is a technique issue, but it was hard to get fine details of shading rendered with watercolors. I'd use colored pencils in the future. Photo allowed me to get shape of eyes, legs, and beak fairly accurately, which might be difficult from live observation. Viewing 14 posts - 1 through 14 (of 14 total)