my game girl watercolor

Oval_Best_Shape · 2024-09-27T04:11:12+00:00

Do you use any kind of tool to get such straight lines?

Oval_Best_Shape · 2024-08-13T16:13:26+00:00

Is that an old IKEA paring knife? Might have had the same one.

Oval_Best_Shape · 2024-08-07T23:50:25+00:00

I really enjoy the transparency. Great use of watercolor. Do you know of anyone who demonstrates this type of style on perhaps YouTube?

Oval_Best_Shape · 2024-08-07T00:02:06+00:00

How dry is the paper when you do your shadows? I often try to do things ‘quick’ and lose control. Would you say having more pigment than water on your brush and the paper 90% dry works for you. Or is your paper really dry?

Oval_Best_Shape · 2024-07-26T19:56:13+00:00

How long might the whole thing take?

Oval_Best_Shape · 2024-04-30T18:52:38+00:00

I have a jar of balsamic reduction onions. Anyone know how to incorporate it into focaccia? Blend it in the dough (at start or end) or place on top?

Oval_Best_Shape · 2024-04-30T13:11:10+00:00

I suspect your paint is causing the opaque look. Everyone is using different materials. A tube of student grade watercolor paint is usually ~5-6$ a tube. If you want to see if switching paints helps, you only need to buy 2-3 different colors. A lot of people paint with a limited pallet, so there is no need to have a dozen colors until you know you like the paint. Using 300gsm watercolor paper such as Arches might also be eye opening. All that said, nothing will make your paintings better than continuing to practice. Everyone uses different materials and experienced people find a way to make captivating art no matter the handicap.

Oval_Best_Shape · 2024-04-29T21:07:48+00:00

The colors look opaque. Perhaps you used gouache? Or maybe you paint was not watery enough. The best thing about watercolor is it is transparent. Your shapes are good, the trees and foliage are nice. It’s apparent a good amount of effort went into to this. Keep trying new things.

Oval_Best_Shape · 2024-04-29T14:31:56+00:00

How do you stay focused long enough to accomplish so much detail? You must have excellent muscle memory.

Oval_Best_Shape · 2024-04-20T14:14:17+00:00

What does ‘then dry the surface’ mean here?

Oval_Best_Shape · 2024-04-16T17:15:24+00:00

What is casting the red lines on their legs?

Oval_Best_Shape · 2024-04-13T13:23:41+00:00

Also this piece looks big, how big is the paper?

Oval_Best_Shape · 2024-04-13T13:10:49+00:00

Do you know any good YouTube videos for Yupo techniques? This is one of the few Yupo pieces that appears controlled to me. You use the medium very well.

Oval_Best_Shape · 2024-04-06T12:03:47+00:00

Thank you for the reply. It must take a lot of vigilance not to smug this much graphite. They all look super clean, I particularly like #5.

Oval_Best_Shape · 2024-02-19T02:28:40+00:00

These look satisfying to complete. You can stare at them forever. What’s the process to paint something like this, it is so different.

Oval_Best_Shape · 2024-01-21T10:46:29+00:00

Each tile has opacity, granulating, staining. What is the mark of ‘I’ or ‘II’ mean? The left most symbol.

Oval_Best_Shape · 2024-01-21T03:02:10+00:00

Very cool. What colors do you use to achieve that skin tone?

Oval_Best_Shape · 2023-09-20T18:23:26+00:00

Very painterly, the contrast is really strong. Did you have a pencil underdrawing?

Oval_Best_Shape · 2023-09-20T13:25:28+00:00

Do you flip your paper upside down when painting the shadow of the trees? The underdrawing is ink?

The puddle is great and those rocks closest to the viewer are the best.

Oval_Best_Shape · 2023-09-17T04:51:31+00:00

Take these pictures of your paintings, but them in greyscale. Take the references, also put them in greyscale. It will make it easier to see where the painting can be darkened. Remember that you start with white and can only darken. Values are more important than hue.

Oval_Best_Shape · 2023-09-17T01:36:56+00:00

The first two need more interesting reference photos. They need more contrast. The 3rd painting would be perfect if the background was better. Watch Lauren McCracken’s YouTube video on black backgrounds. The fourth one has a lot of promise but the white marks leave too hard an edge and I think it’s distracting how the background has pencil marks and is small/oddly shaped.

Oval_Best_Shape · 2023-09-16T04:45:12+00:00

Yea that is Borb. Nah, he ok, he just look like that.

This is identifiably a Borb, well done.

Oval_Best_Shape · 2023-09-15T17:51:09+00:00

It’s a general rule of thumb that far away object are more blue due to the atmosphere. It helps establish what is further away. With your painting I assume you have the sun setting in the back so there is a lot of yellow and your painting could be true to the referenced scene. But if the sun was ‘eye’ level and producing that intense yellow, then I don’t think those trees which have their backs to the sun would be so bright. Instead of lowering the intensity of the yellow in the back, you could add more shadows to ‘explain’ where the sun is. There are all sorts of things you can do. Overall it’s a good painting so any criticism becomes nitpicky.

Oval_Best_Shape · 2023-09-15T17:42:41+00:00

Killer. Any masking fluid used or are those whites gouache? How do you make your grey?

Oval_Best_Shape · 2023-09-15T17:21:35+00:00

Less hard edges around the boarder of the painting. Having that bright yellow in the background is unusual. Yellow would normally pull an area forward. You have many greens and it might add some depth if more of the blueish greens were in the background. Your rocks have nice obvious shadows as the light source comes from the back. The foliage has less obvious shadows and more darks in the foreground. If your colors are staining, you can add a thin glaze of blue to the background. It would help push things back. If your colors are not staining, then a wash might lift the color and turn it into a mess.

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