days 39-40 of my #100DaysChallenge of drawing animals. I continued working on some watercolors and more intentionally to be finished stuff - with the result that except for the elephants that were actually finished at this point, the rest is still languishing in my room in the same state like, 2 weeks or so later. Gah. I hope I'll have the energy to actually finish them this week!
I was totally fascinated by the dark red cosmos. If I had a garden (and were garden person in general), I'd love to have them. These are from Arlington Court in Devon.
(As a fun side story: I spent half a day wondering where I heard of Arlington Court - only yo realize that Arlington is a suburb of Boston /Cambridge and that's while I know the name...)
I haven't touched watercolors since October - a reminder of how full and stressful a time it has been. Not that the stress got less, but trying hard to truly disconnect this week.
Durian Fruit, vintage botanical illustration circa 1815. This beautiful fruit is renowned for it's strong aroma and unique flavor profile. I haven't been brave enough to try it yet.
Hey I'm Alicia, an artist who really hasn't been feeling social media lately (especially IG and FB) so I thought I'd try Mastodon out and see if I like the simplicity of it more. I think I picked the perfect server, since I'm much more likely to be in my sunny garden than anywhere else. :BlobCat_Love: 🌞
Swatched out every single one, which was interesting. #Watercolors are tough to capture with a small swatch of color as there are so many different factors involved. Obviously how much water you use - some are the most vibrant/saturated with minimal water, while others are - confusingly - more vibrant when you use more water. And the colors shift when they dry to get lighter or darker or sometimes they can look stunningly vibrant when you paint them out only to dry to a duller finish. My DaVinci paints are terrible for this but oh they're so pretty when you first paint them on!
Some are granulating which can give more interest/texture to a painting, but that can look defective in a swatch. Some, like QOR, have amazing flow in water - these ones didn’t look like anything special in the swatches but on the right paper are amazing.
So many things. I'm endlessly fascinated with #watercolor.
I've attempted to tackle this project a couple times, but this is the first time I'm somewhat satisfied with the result. I used the video linked below as tutorial. My first time #watercolor#painting without a line drawing as a guide. This will be part of a series; I wonder if anyone will recognize what I'm going for? It'll hopefully be obvious when I finish more in the series.
Recently I started to travel a lot again and I don't really have motivation and time for drawing practice.
Today though I managed to get some:
This time I was experimenting with quick sketch. Instead of really looking at proportions between shapes I started with one shape and based whole drawing on circles with specific ratios.
That's why the nose it too big :bongoCat: It's easy to get lost when you loose reference and try to go faster with #drawing#art#watercolor
I finally caught up to Chivalry, the 2022 comic/graphic novel written by @neilhimself with art by Colleen Doran. It's delightful, unique, and quite short.
Seems this was written long ago & languished in rights heck for decades. The art is exquisite and fits the story perfectly. The tone is quintessentially Gaiman in his lighter mode: thoughtful, heartfelt, gently comic, understated, emotionally moving.
Some diary paintings! I didn't really know how I wanted to decorate this time, so I went to r/sketchdaily and just selected one of the prompts. This prompt was "covered in beetles."
As a palette-cleanser from my daily #Inktober#urbansketching, a watercolor of 10 years ago from life (our town’s best model). I posted another from that session, which was better and simpler. #WaterColor No underdrawing, as has often been my approach. #premiercoup
Today I ditched the digital and work on these. One is ink pen + watercolor pencil, the other watercolor and the last one India ink. #InkArt#WaterColor#QueerArt