It's A Good Way Of Ensuring Your Painting Doesn't Become Haunted.

[rionaleonhart]

As a present for my mum, I've attempted a watercolour painting for the first time! I was a little nervous about working in watercolours, as they're less forgiving than acrylics - if you make a mistake with acrylics, you can just paint over it - but I'm reasonably happy with how it turned out.




There are things I'd change if I could - I wasn't planning on the greens in the background being more vibrant than the greens in the foreground; it'd probably make more sense the other way around - but watercolours are less intimidating than I feared!

I used this video as a guide, although I simplified the piece a little because I didn't want to bite off more than I could chew for my first attempt. The effect of sprinkling salt on wet watercolours looks pretty cool! But I feel I should probably get to grips with regular watercolours before I start throwing salt at my paintings.

I think the most important thing I've learnt from this painting is 'when painting with watercolours, you won't be able to create an even colour over large areas, so you might as well embrace patchiness'.

Comments

[knave_of_swords]

Wow, it’s beautiful!

[wolfy_writing]

Oh, that is very pretty! And yeah, watercolors can only get kind of even, not totally even.

Honestly, I think you should try playing with salt and just call it abstract art if it doesn't look like anything.

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you! ♥

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you! And thank you for the encouragement to give salt a go. It does look like it could be fun; I'll see if I can work up the courage!

[cosmicjellyfish]

This is beautiful! I actually like the way the greens fade out coming into the foreground - it’s very striking.

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you! And thank you in particular for your kindness about an aspect I was insecure about; that's reassuring!

[meikuree]

That’s beaut, I wouldn’t have guessed it was your first time!

[vriddy]

Oh wow, that's so beautiful and peaceful! It sounds like a fun time :D

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you so much!

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you! It was fun to attempt a style of painting that's not the one I'm used to. Watercolours and acrylics behave so differently!

[pauraque]

Very nice!

[doreyg]

This is so pretty!

[ryulynn]

looks good to me! I think embracing its patchiness is great and something to continue taking advantage of in the future

[apiphile]

I think it's very charming! IME with watercolours you're right about not being able to get the same colour over large areas, but you can do fun things with layering very thin colour washes which are a lot harder to do with acrylics.

[militarypenguin]

Beautiful! I also wouldn't have guessed this was your first time with watercolor painting.

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you!

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you! Your Suicune icon is extremely cute.

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you! I sort of like the patchiness, but I'm going to have to work out how to harness it effectively.

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you! Layering sounds cool; I'm going to have to experiment with that.

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you very much! I love your icon very solemnly giving me a thumbs-up.

[lassarina]

That's lovely!

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you!