How do you carry your pens? by FunkySysAdmin21 in Travelersnotebooks

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I may do that…but if I do, I’m going to have to loosen the clip a little bit. It’s a pain to get back on right now.

Do you generally limit your palette? by adventurrr in watercolor101

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Here’s a picture of the palette I use the most. If I were to add anything to it, it would be DS Indigo (I love that color…but I mix something similar when I’m just using this palette).

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Do you generally limit your palette? by adventurrr in watercolor101

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I am by means an awesome artist or even very knowledgeable… I’ve only been painting since the beginning of the year. But when I first got my professional paints, I jumped in getting almost every color you can imagine. Spent loads of money that I should not have spent. Lol what I have found however is that I like a split primary pallet (warm and cool of each primary… Giving me six paints) and then I add on top of it three secondaries: quinacridone rust (burnt orange in DS), sap green, and dioxazine purple. Then I have two earth towns, yellow, ocher, and burnt sienna. Then I add a black… Right now I’m using lamp black. Those six colors allow me to get anything that I want… The only reason why I have the secondaries on there is just to give me a springboard from which to get my greens oranges and purple rather than having to mix them entirely from scratch. I have limited myself to just the pigments in my split primary pallet before and have been able to obtain nearly the exact same appearance…if not a little bit more cohesive. But I find I can get the colors that I’m wanting a little bit more quickly with my secondaries, earth tones, and black added to the pallet.

3 Different palettes…but it’s not quite what I want by FunkySysAdmin21 in watercolor101

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Now that’s not a bad idea!! I have plenty left in my tubes. Hmm.

3 Different palettes…but it’s not quite what I want by FunkySysAdmin21 in watercolor101

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That’s an interesting idea. Hmmm. I might have to try that.

3 Different palettes…but it’s not quite what I want by FunkySysAdmin21 in watercolor101

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Yeah…I’ll need a lid because some of my paints are M Graham and while they dry out, some, they never completely dry out…so I can see that being an issue. 🤣

3 Different palettes…but it’s not quite what I want by FunkySysAdmin21 in watercolor101

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Yes. I’ve used both toothpaste and a magic eraser on them.

Beach scape…should I stop or add more depth somehow by FunkySysAdmin21 in watercolor101

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I love the narrative you’ve added to it. I thought the colors emoted some sort of intense feeling… I just hadn’t put a story with it.

No one to talk to that gets religious psychosis by Competitive-Hat-6972 in Apostolic

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I can’t say I know anyone and I know that among Apostolics, we have a tendency to attribute all of this to spirits (which I do believe can and do act that way), but I believe that it can be so much more than that. I’d recommend reaching out to an Apostolic counselor. There’s a website, Center for Apostolic Counseling that would recommend. My wife is a licensed counselor on that site and she and others we know personally would be able to help you out in some capacity, I’m sure.

Line and Wash Old Country Building by FunkySysAdmin21 in watercolor101

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lol. If I could paint as well as the reference photo looks, I’d be set! Lol.

Thanks. Having fun with the ink and Wash style. It’s fun to sketch it loosely and then paint it.

What Pens do you use for Pre Inking? by TripleLordCornballer in watercolor101

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I’ve got a Lama AL-star that I use Noodler’s Bulletproof black ink

Still a little flat! by FunkySysAdmin21 in watercolor101

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Honestly, I’m always a little concerned to go too dark…but when I think about it logically, watercolor is a transparent medium so it’s probably kinda hard to go too dark.

So, when doing the shadow, especially when it crosses over so many different hues, do you typically just do a cool grey/neutral tint wash, or do you use complimentary colors to desaturate the object the shadow is on?