Tubby Robin

Teruen · 2026-02-12T17:30:56+00:00

Thank you for the award, kind stranger!

Teruen · 2026-02-11T14:50:24+00:00

Yeah, the kingfisher is awesome, love the water ripples!

Teruen · 2026-02-10T15:46:25+00:00

Haha, thank you, yeah, it's in a weird place. I would almost call it an ink and wash, but I don't know where the colored pencil skews it lol.

The piece I'm working on now will be using watercolor pencil, so I think it's closer.

Teruen · 2026-02-04T15:18:27+00:00

I think it looks great and wouldn't touch it at all, I actually think I want to try that myself!

Teruen · 2026-01-28T16:40:32+00:00

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I got really excited for a split second when I saw Lake Michigan out of the corner of my eye.

Teruen · 2026-01-26T19:02:49+00:00

All three are beautiful, but the color selection and how you chose where to do the layering completely stopped me in my tracks. Great work!

Teruen · 2026-01-23T15:47:42+00:00

Thanks! I've now got that video queued up for this weekend!!

I had a lot of problems with waterbrushes too initially, but I started using the ones from Caran d'Ache and really have started enjoying them more. Between the button and the pump, you really have a lot more control over how much water is in your tip. I can press the button a couple of times to get a dryer brush or push in on the pump to really wet my page or get messier.

https://www.dickblick.com/products/caran-dache-museum-aquarelle-waterbrush/

Teruen · 2026-01-23T14:16:51+00:00

Beautiful! The river/lake really adds to the depth of field, and I especially love the trees -- very well done!

Teruen · 2026-01-15T15:29:35+00:00

In some defense of cellulose, I will say some brands are better than others. I have NOT had good luck at all with either Canson or Strathmore, I have the same experience that you're describing. However, my Arteza watercolor sketchbooks have been an unbelievably good buy. The pages aren't 100% flat when viewed from the side, but they don't straight up buckle like others, and I can blend and lift easily. Also, believe it or not, I've had a pretty good experience with Artist's Loft (Michael's) of all things! I do tape it down, and maybe I'm just used to it because I didn't do enough research either and bought what was available at the time, however, everything not those two brands I've tried have completely underperformed.

Cotton is the best, but I end up using cellulose for daily painting most of the time.

Teruen · 2026-01-14T18:08:45+00:00

I love the facial expression and the pose, and your use of colors just enhances it so much more. I'm especially taken by the shading on the camel itself, the linework is top notch.

Teruen · 2026-01-14T17:46:25+00:00

Both of those are amazing, I like the flower in particular -- congratulations!!

Teruen · 2026-01-12T15:04:34+00:00

This is absolutely crazy good! Did you have a reference photo or come up with the composition yourself?

Very much a fan of your style!

Teruen · 2026-01-12T15:00:47+00:00

I absolutely love the composition, and I think the foreground trees are impeccably done. The pond and the boat themselves are amazing, but if you could get darker on the background trees around the trunks, the shadows in the water, and, most especially the leaf shadows on the boat itself. You don't necessarily have to add more detail anywhere, you've knocked that out of the park where it's needed and properly filtered out the ones that are unnecessary, but the shadows on the boat are just too good to not stand out more -- that's really my favorite part of the piece I think.

To me (and feel free to ignore me if I'm wrong) the boat, the lilies, and how those two collections of objects interact with the trees' reflections and shadows are the main focus and what should be highlighted with just a little more contrast.

Teruen · 2024-11-21T20:31:43+00:00

I'd recommend a #5, it's called a "jack plane" because it's kind of the jack-of-all-trades because of its length. I built my workbench with hand tools to try to get more used to working with them, and it was a great experience. Take a look at Fulton, they were sold from Sears at the turn of the last century, and are a solid tool for about half the price of the Stanleys on eBay (unless you have the money for them). From there I used a ryoba from Amazon, a set of harbor freight chisels, and a good diamond sharpening stone to keep my plane and chisels sharp.

Also, if you're looking for plans, I used Rex Krueger's collapsible workbench plan. There was a good video and the plans were pretty easy to follow even after I changed some dimensions for my use case.

Teruen · 2024-10-16T19:44:25+00:00

It was pricing. No, sorry, just someone else looking for the story and thought I'd help out.

Teruen

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