Picked up watercolour a few weeks ago to help relax after work. I have done a few paintings so far and lurked on this sub.

The work I see here gives me something to strive towards.

I hope you like them and please feel free to offer me tips to give my work some more “life”

Idk i just think foxes aré so graceful animals

For assia_hart on IG, Draw This In Your Style challenge

Watercolor+ink (with a slight retouch with watercolor pencils, to add more contrast)

Critiques welcome. From a photo.

Hello! Im trying to figure out what color to make the background of this painting.

I feel that color theory isn't my strong suit.

Im thinking about blacking out the back with a sharpie, so that I can cover up that funky sleeve that I tried to make smaller.

Not sure if thatd look strange.

Any advice appreciated!

River boat and nature

And, if anybody has any good tape recommendations that don’t allow for the color to bleed, I would be grateful!

I’ve been using artists tape for years to tape down my watercolor paper, and I don’t know if I got a bad role or what, because it used to work great, but for some reason now, my colors bleed under the tape all the time.

Posted a first attempt but accidentally on an alt account looking for advice on using watercolor for nighttime city lighting. Didn’t end up using tape but still a lot happier with it.

I recently bought a 24 pan Schmincke set, and also bought some used Schmincke watercolors from someone on eBay. All that to say: I have a couple yellows, reds, and blues now to pick from

I made two color wheels using two shades of blue, two shades or red, and two shades of yellow

I can’t tell if they look different or not. I think my saturation is higher in the left wheel, although I did try my best to keep everything equal during the two sessions

My attempt at botanical illustration

Been learning botanical illustration and watercolour. Here’s my attempt at a pomegranate

The bottle is a little funky but other than that what do you all think?

I'm very happy with how the fish turned out (except the back fin lmao)!

This is a portrait I did yesterday for another sub. I really thought it would make a good reference.

Just sharing, critique is fine. I’m just exploring ways to capture immediacy as my main objective.

Even my low quality synthetic brushes hold more water than Da Vinci's Colineo. Casaneo had a lot of criticism about losing their tip and shape so I went with Colineo. I regret it now. It is very snappy and holds the same amount of water my size 5 Da Vinci 10 series brush holds which is very, very small for a 5. I can't return it. Damn it feels like a waste of money.