SVS Virtual Studio JUNE 2022🌞
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@HollyOakley omg yes! I love doing that. I haven't used that technique lately for some reason but it's amazing how smooth the blending is. I used to use that technique alot for realistic colored pencil drawings on hotpress paper (which I haven't done in a while mainly bc they end up taking soo long - very relaxing process tho)
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@demotlj By textured paper I mean watercolor paper that has some tooth. There's a few different types of watercolor paper. The ones I mainly use are hotpress (smooth/no texture), cold press (rough-ish texture), and softpress (sort of rough but not as much as cold press). Cold and hotpress papers are more common and you can probably find them in most craft stores. I buy Fabriano softpress paper online. I find it's my favorite because it allows for easy watercolor blending like coldpress but also fine colored pencil details like hotpress (since I usually prefer to paint small the coldpress paper texture can make it hard to draw fine lines in colored pencil). Anyways I'd recommend testing them out.
I think I got a watercolor paper sample pack off Jerrry's artarama a couple years ago and that's how I first discovered softpress - otherwise I would have never known it existed since I've never seen it sold in an art store before.You mention you use ink - have you ever tried inktense pencils? I rarely use them (mainly because I forget I have some) but they are veryy fun to use. They'd probably be right up your ally since you use watercolor, ink, and pencil.
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@patricialamas This sort of painting blows my mind. It's soo perfectt. Great job!
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@kylebeaudette I absolutely love this. hehe
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@Mary-Toth I have gone back and forth between cold press and hotpress papers, liking the first better for watercolor and the second better for the ink. Right now I'm mostly painting in a Pentalic Aqua Journal which might be kind of like the softpress paper you describe because it is coldpress but not as rough as Arches so it works better for the kind of line and wash I usually do.
I've used watercolor pencils but never inktense pencils. I looked them up and they look interesting -- I'll have to give them a try.
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This is slightly random, but I'm taking a break from my children's book work and moving through the foundation courses, and am kind of speeding through the first one on colour. There was an exercise on colour harmony which involved colouring the teacher's work, which was a bit too boring for me, so I decided to do some rabbit studies that double as colour harmony exercises in preparation for next month's prompt. I realize I haven't tried rendering realistic fur digitally since I got back into doing art regularly so this was fun trying to figure out what brushes work.
They are very creatively named the "complementary hare", the "analogous bunny", and the "monochromatic rabbit"
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Made this for my portfolio
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@Jeremy-Ross that’s great Jeremy!
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Thanks @Asyas_illos!
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I have a whole list of character ideas around animals. This one was not the first I’ve drawn but it was the first idea at the top of my list. They’re rough sketches, but I like it the way it is.
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Thought of this. I think this would make a nice t-shirt design.
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I'm glad we have June off from contest prep. This month has been nuts. I'm taking classes, doing crits, hosting family, traveling for a mural project, lining up freelance work, and trying to keep my head on straight.
Last week I got an unexpected sunny Sunday afternoon free in Brooklyn. I took myself for a sketch and wander around the Green Wood Cemetery, and discovered that digital plein aire paintings are a ton of fun. It's so much more intuitive for me to get value and color relationships right when I'm using a color picker instead of mixing gouache on a palette.
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@Jeremy-Ross Love it!! It's giving me Lee White watercolor meets Oliver Jeffers vibes
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@Valerie-Light Yes David Hockney takes his I-Pad out for this kind of work. If you don't know him, he is really the longest living current British artist who has been famous since the 1960's. A great portrait and landscape artist and painter who uses colour beautifully.
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@Valerie-Light lovely, I wondered about digital plein air also, didn’t no if it was frowned upon lol.
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Hey guys! I thought I'd share this mural project that I've just finished for my hometown
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@Asyas_illos I started following some digital plein air hashtags on Insta, including #warriorpainters, and it's so inspiring! Who cares if it's frowned upon, it's super portable and great practice!
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@Valerie-Light Yes, being creative should never be frowned upon! At least artists are putting something positive into the world other than frowns! Ha ha.
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@Valerie-Light those are lovely
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@Asyas_illos not really frowned upon but it's hard to see the colours on your screen under the bright sunlight
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