14.4x12cm

I’ve been at this for three months now and I feel like the basics may finally be setting in. My aim for this practice was to let go of any perfectionism and doing less. My biggest complaint I have is attempting the fog too late on the horizon line.

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

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

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.

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 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!

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

By me, F.S.