My Watercolor Experience So Far

So, this time last year I was very passionate about learning watercolors. I spent hours during a lot of the days of the week. I was calm and I had time to do things for myself. I was not on Steem. It was before my active season when I shoot a lot of events for clients. And... did I mention I was very passionate?

It began with something else, by the way. First came the idea to learn and paint with coffee, so...

These happened:

From a role playing game setting of mine and Pinterest references.

Star Wars inspired stuff from a location of a popular rock I think in North America.

Marvel's Valkyrie character drawn from a digital painting reference somewhere on the Pinterests. A surprise present for a friend. I am not sure he recognized her ;)

With Valkyrie I discovered how I can use my brush to move paint, A.K.A. coffee across the paper to fix it where I prefer it to be and to eliminate some pools. An artist guru I am about to marry told me I should try watercolor and so I did.

She was too busy to instruct me and I had my own rhythm of learning, anyway, so I went to Youtube then. Trying series after series of topics I wanted to do well at. I even came across the lessons of master @shibasaki where he showed a very logical and easy to understand way to paint a tree. I did not succeed in that. I think I will try someday again.

Anyway... I did dunes at first. I love those. I also had some ideas of how to make them more fictional and I had a couple of nice results... @mellindor now owns one of those.

A small selection of the rest:

I mean one image, obviously.

I realize I may have shared them already but now I made new pictures with much better quality than the smartphoners I had before. Not perfect but still...

Ah, the off-topic coffee tastes so good right now...

There. I forgot to mention it was dangerous drinking coffee while painting watercolor. Brushes tend to go in the wrong cup.

Then I was into easy waves drawing - the technique that Deathpool shows in a trailer. If you know what exactly I am talking about (hint - only part of it all is in the trailer), please, wave in the comments below and smile :)

Yeah, I managed to spoil this one by overly overworking it.

This is what goooood watercolor paper feels like. It was wonderful. I kind of commandeered it.

My "amazing" paper grinding technique again. This is a real place turned less surreal than it actually is.

I will be making a story about Sinemorets soon.

And I guess I am into mystic looking forests now. One of those would be the thumbnail image.

An older version:

Here is the real trick I have to learn. I have to be able to stop while it may feel unfinished but while it's at the same time delicate and not messy. Behind every image you see here there are probably a few attempts that got scrapped.

I had the time and patience. Now, not so much. Back to turtle mode. Sorry, friend @veryspider, I am asking you to continue waiting and watching ;)

You see, I have those two other things - my photography and writing. And I lose momentum when I shift from one to the other. I don't believe I will ever have the skills of those dedicated to drawing and painting. But It's a great way to have a meditation or just have some color happiness.

Yup, I am color happy! Also monochrome happy sometimes. Coffee happy, curves and shapes happy... You get it.

Go love some art!

Yours,

Manol