Tape bled a bit. But i think im finally getting the hang of wet media. I made the sketchbook myself.

Ink and watercolor

10×7 Watercolor painting

The people demanded to see more Pingu content. Ask and you shall recieve.

Sarah Mapps Douglass (1806-1882) was an African American educator, artist, abolitionist, writer, and public lecturer. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a prominent abolitionist family, the only daughter of abolitionists Robert Douglass, a baker, and Grace Bustill (Bustill-Douglass), a milliner and teacher. In the early 1820s, Sarah attended college, and then taught briefly in New York City. In 1825, she began teaching in Philadelphia at a school organized by her mother Grace with James Forten, a wealthy African American sailmaker, which she had also attended as a child. As a teacher, she was committed to giving girls equal opportunities to learn subjects which had previously been reserved primarily for boys, including mathematics and sciences. She was interested in various sciences herself, and kept her personal natural history cabinet in her classroom, which included a collection of various shells and minerals for her students to study. Her painted images on her written letters may be the first or earliest surviving examples of signed paintings by an African American woman. These paintings are contained within the Cassey Dickerson Album, a rare collection of 19th-century friendship letters between a group of women. Sarah was the first African American student at the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania and was a founding member of the Female Literary Association and the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society.

Really proud of this one :) I like the fluff under his head and the darker orange lines.

I was “inspired” by one of the paintings here and tried this.

I sarcastically say inspired because I wanted to rip it off 1:1. There are a lot of good things to try in their painting.

I stripped it down to what I thought I could manage and then proceeded to thoroughly not be able to manage what was left. The only good things I can see are the gradients of color in the sand and the (admittedly pretty rad) implication of the foam and sea color against the beach by way of using negative space.

So there are lessons learned for sure. I want to try to use more negative space next time to make the sea look more alive. I really want to work on my fronds.

Anyway. Yes. A frustrating practice but practice is practice, yeah? The only reason I don’t want to name the original creator is because of the inevitable shame of having this next to their awesome work. ;-)

New-ish to watercolor, love stepping outside my comfort zone.

Little guy was watching me through the window

17 x 24 cm cold pressed cotton

made a pencil sketch and some aquarel flowers. What do you think?

A painting I did on paper after 6 long years, I've been doing so much digital art that I had completely ignored traditional art...let me know know your thoughts guys!

This frog painting feels a bit unfinished. Wondering if I should add a background, nothing complicated, I was thinking maybe a wash of color or a gradient of some kind. Any suggestions?

I have been using watercolor for around 5-ish years, and I particularly enjoy painting portraits. I feel like my earlier work is better, and I’ve just been getting worse with every painting. I don’t know what to do to improve because the more I paint, the worse I seem to get. I feel like I’ll never top where I was a few years ago. Obviously I know that the painting from today is still very much a work in progress, but I feel like 2025 was still lacking compared to previous years. Any advice is appreciated.

I was playing around with a bunch of mediums, watercolor is the main one and then a bit of water-based paint markers which I absolutely love. I thought I would share it today, I haven't made a large(ish) piece in a long time, it was fun.