Recent Watercolors

Work has become stressful for me, so I've taken it upon myself to do something that helps me ignore the stresses of work. It's also helpful because it's one of my favorite hobbies. Watercolor may be the hardest of the paints to get into for beginners, but for me, it's the medium that teaches me to draw lightly and think ahead in order to make the most of the pieces.

Watercolor is different from other mediums because it requires knowing where and what the water will do to your canvas. Unlike acrylic and oil, you have to leave white spots for highlights, white paint will not cut it. You also have to layer the paints for darker regions and if you don't completely erase your pencil marks, they are going to be seen. All these little tidbits are great at helping me remember to keep a light hand while painting and to think ahead at the end game instead of just rushing in and painting wherever I please. Here are some of the things I've done at work. I'm hesitant to share because I don't like criticism, so be kind to me please!

This page was my first attempts back into watercolor in YEARS

Here are the close ups for each one

I did not like how the black disintegrated when dry. 

 It got so patchy when that black dried, it was a good thing that I was just testing out the new paints

Mixed media test. 

I did NOT like how I couldn't get tiny splashes of silver to come out of the damn pen. But this was a tester page, so I feel comfortable showing you my initial failures

I liked this one the most!

 I used tape to mark off the edges and I REALLY love rainbows. I looked up a mountain picture to get the shading and shapes right and I feel this one was great! ...until I went back and retouched it and make that big water mark on the left side T.T wahhhh

Once I felt comfortable enough, I thought it was time to make a big picture and practice background skills that I so desperately needed to practice, so behold a tree.

it's not too bad, but it's just a tree NBD

I liked it as I was painting it, but going back, it looks so generic an cliche. Everyone paints trees. So then I decided to ask coworkers what their favorite animals were. 

And here is the results

Queenie loves chow chows 

Kia loves lions and bright flashy colors

Braden lovees sea turtles and for good reason! They are so cute!!

In between some of their paintings I did some for me! Here are those doodles

A fox for Debbin

This is a painting of my son Graybeard. I call him beardo for short.

This is a snail I took a picture of at an old job. I put him on a cherry cause he needed a snack!

I have an outline of a butterfly, but I'm not loving it. So no one gets to see it yet. Suck on that. Also, there are a few more paintings I did, but I gave them to coworkers, so maybe if they text me a photo, I'll put them in here. 

Any new paintings I do I'll showcase them one by one as I get them done.

Also, no requests unless I ask. This is a therapeutic outlet for me, not a commission site. Unless you want to pay me big bucks for novice work.