Avery

Hi, I could not find a discussion section after Applying Watercolor to Paper, so I will put my painting here.  I used wet in wet for the landscape and some wet on dry. The maple seeds were done with glazing. The vultures used glazing, rocks, sand, dirt, wet on dry, water wet in wet. I recorded my observations in tiny words wrapped around the boxes. This project took several days. But I learned a lot.

I used wet in wet and wet on dry for these Koi fish. Technical question for Liz: how do you paint fish in water? How do do make the water darker, keep the fish colors and make them look underwater and not have a muddled mess?   Any help you can offer will be appreciated. Avery

Very nice journal pages, painting, lettering, info.

• I love your sweet morning dove. Nice blending  of the colors and feather detail. 

Great drawing, love it's expression.

I was not sure how this would go but sometimes forcing yourself to draw moving animals can result in a favorite sketch. I tried to capture the different poses of the vultures. I sat on a convient log and drew for 45 min. I also took photos.  Later, I fixed hastily drawn sections. I tried to use measuring to get the proportions right. I looked at negative spaces. After a while, my hand/eye coordination improved. I colored my flamingo negative shape drawing to jazz it up.

Wow, incredible dragonfly. You should torture yourself more often, ha ha.

Cool owl drawing, you really captured it!

Wow, great drawing! Like it coming out of the box, great layout.

Hi, Although gesture drawings sometimes  look a bit messy, they do help you observe and record behavior and field marks. Sometimes one or more sketches turn out really nice. I decided to try gestures of insects on spring wildflowers, both quick sketches and ones that took a little longer. Sometimes,  I go over the pencil sketch with marker, and colored pencil.