Watercolor and Acrylic Experiment
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@Suzy-Heitz awesome!
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A friend suggested I crop the tree piece to pull back on some of the darkness. What do you think?
Here are some watercolor flowers too.
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Ooh, I like those flowers a lot. Very nice.
The cropped piece does feel less heavy, the black sky was pretty foreboding before.
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Thanks Sarah...flowers are the one thing that have a tendency to pan out when I do watercolor.
@Sarah-LuAnn I really love how Lee contrasts dark darks against white and a splash of saturated color but it is super tricky plus I'm trying to take a more mixed media approach to watercolor. People are especially hard to pull off too but it is nice to play with real paint at times!!
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Last one for today...Into the dark..it looks like there is a little girl sitting among the dark clouds. #watercolor
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@Charlie-Eve-Ryan I love this one! nice work!
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These are great and should be loose and fun. In order to really practice though, try sketching out a few values in pencil before you paint. Then try to hold those values when you actually paint. It's good practice because there is a goal in mind. You will see that this is easier said than done. You will learn a lot more this way than if you are just doing a painting without a plan.
kinda like these:
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@Lee-White Really great tip and examples, Lee. I will definitely do the pencil sketches and try not to tense up too much with the pencil. Thank you!!!
I am finding these watercolor pieces to be really super helpful because it forces me to draw landscapes since I am unsure of how to create people in watercolor. When I work digitally my work is so character driven and I am really hoping with practice I can somehow merge the two. I just have no idea at this point what that will actually look like.This watercolor piece is called yellow fields. I tried to stay loose while doing a bit more planning this time.
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@Charlie-Eve-Ryan Yes, that looks good. I really like the flowers
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@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen and @bdyanne thanks so much!!