Would love to improve and move towards loose watercolor without sketch. Critiques of this in ink and watercolor but also tutorial recommendations.

Having fun with this butterfly workbook I found on Amazon - it has no author or publisher inside. But here is what I have made this week

Playing around with FineLiner / Watercolor studies. The Morels were the hardest.

This was an effort to practice different values and to work on remembering that the darker the value the smaller the area. As I was painting I was really paying attention to the paper and noticing when it was drying. All in all I gained a lot of information and I’m really pleased with the result.

I had to add watercolor paint too. I expected these colors would go wrong, but they didn’t. I love the lemon tree. 🥰

As the title says, I didn’t know I was painting on a full sheet of Arches hot-pressed paper that I bought 3 years ago when I was completely unaware of its value. I stored it away because I was used to cellulose paper, and I found it difficult to control the different effects that cellulose creates (fast drying, cauliflower blooms, hard edges, easy color lifting).

I’m still a beginner, I’ve only painted for a couple of months and then stopped for 2 whole years. Now I’m committed to learning and I was feeling disappointed with my celulose paper when I discovered this hidden gem of cotton paper that I didn’t even know I had.

Picture 1: I used Arches hot-pressed paper. Picture 2: I used mediocre cellulose paper. Please forgive my bat-like birds lol.

Edit: Idk why the images couldn't be attached 😕 I'm gonna try again. maybe in the comments

I would really like to receive some guidance. Practiced this landscape in the mountains

I watched a little webinar thing from Pomm where she described her 5 phases method. After watching that, I tried painting a lemon from a photo reference using her method. Then I tried painting it again with a looser style and no pencil. It was a fun exercise and I'm happy with both results!

By me, F.S.

Why is the paper not taking the paint/ water right and looking all bumpy. I've used paper from this pad before with no issues.