Music WIP
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This guy near enough killed me!
I'm working on this thing where I don't dog my own work - I fought this guy tooth and nail.
But I do think there were a lot of successes, and the parts I don't like have taught me just as many lessons. I ended up playing around with it at the end and wanted to see what crosshatching in gouache would look like as an approach.
Done in watercolor and gouache.
It's a hard medium to go back and make corrections, but if you have feedback I would love to hear it and digest as I move forward!Thank you again for all the pointers you've shared with me thus far!
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@kaitlinmakes It's a lovely painting -- nice composition and great mood. I've been trying to teach myself watercolor this summer and have become very appreciative of people's ability to watercolor. Your grays, especially, are really nice -- I'm envious.
Laurie DeMott
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what a fantastic piece, just popped over to your website, stunning work!!!!
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@demotlj thank you! Watercolor is such a fickle mistress, but I keep going back to it.
I just saw the sketches of your birds - your lines are so confident and smart and just show their character.
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@lmrush I'm so excited you found me on Insta - I'm loving your work!
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Woah!!! This is amazing! Is this done in watercolors?
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You should call it Song of the Wild
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This is a fantastic piece. I live the monochromatic look you created.
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@kaitlinmakes your watercolors on Instagram are beautiful. Your animals are very lovely. Have you tried out watercolor graphite? I am playing with that now and loving it so far.
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@kaitlinmakes I usually destroy the lines when I go to watercolor which is what I'm trying to work on. I'm thinking of using the Inktober challenge to do a line and wash every day and maybe that will help.
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@kaitlinmakes Me too, so happy to connect, we share tips learned, frustrations and great websites
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@lmrush Yes! You seem so capable of just trusting your strokes as you lay them down - something I'm still working towards.
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@chrisaakins Thank you so much - I have never even heard of watercolor graphite, but I checked out your instagram and it looks like you lay down the pencil and then use water to move the lines around? Do you still use watercolor paper for it?
@demotlj That's a great idea - because it's basically "ink."
Can I piggy back on your idea?
It makes just so much sense - I'm not really a pen and ink kind of artist, so I've been trying to figure out how to make inktober work -
@kaitlinmakes you should definitely go for it. I figured that Inktober is really a personal challenge and no one will even know if Iām following the rules exactly
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@kaitlinmakes I do a mix of both. You can paint with it it just like watercolor. I like to use it for my backgrounds and for adding texture. It provides a deep value you can only get with lots of layers in pencil but without all the shinyness. I may get brave and do a full watercolor with it and post it. My problem is that I am not very practiced with watercolor.:) Always been a color pencil guy.
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@chrisaakins
I think they're kind of the same animal - you can't really cover a dark with a light in pencil, can you? I'm really excited about the possibilities of the graphite - I'm going to order some tonight -
Cool! Post some work when you do!
