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Scenes from life

Sorry for the radio silence.

Been enjoying Diablo 4 new expansion and been ignoring everything else.

I was watching a YouTuber this week, traveling the world and doing watercolour of scenes in a book.

Got me thinking about doing the same.

I did a few of those when I started like this one.

My wife and sister in law.

But yeah, really thinking of just snapping some random pictures and painting.

If nothing else, it'll up my sketching skill.

u/Ottaro_Chabo — 8 days ago
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Progression

I had planned on doing this earlier but.. you know 😆.

So basically last July, 2 weeks into watercolour I painted this. Based off a picture I took.

Then in September I redid it to see if/how I had improved. I was surprised and thought it would be fun to do this comparison every so often. But I forgot 😳.

So, 10 months or so after the first one, I finally remembered, this one in pencil only.

u/Ottaro_Chabo — 12 days ago
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Our last trip to Japan, my wife's home town had a festival (Matsuri)

I got a few good photographs. For some reason I really wanted to paint this one.

u/Ottaro_Chabo — 21 days ago
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Hi all,

I was thinking it could be fun if every month we picked a subject.

Country side, birds, anything really.

Open to anyone, just for fun. No winners. Just a chance to do something you might not have tried otherwise.

A sticky and we answer our image. Or post with a tag. Not sure about the logistics, I was just asking myself what I should do next and trying to think of something...new. Thought this could be fun.

Thoughts?

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u/Ottaro_Chabo — 24 days ago
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Based off one of my pictures.

It's a river close to my home.

As I was painting this I noticed (see last picture, I highlighted it) I saw a belted kingfisher was there so I had to add it in the painting.

u/Ottaro_Chabo — 25 days ago
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This Taiwan scene I did last December.

My wife asked for an Asian scene, after some googling we picked this.

This was an epic project. The amount of detail ...

I knew I couldn't do a realistic image so decided more of an illustration type image.

Progress and reference image attached.

u/Ottaro_Chabo — 26 days ago
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So a while back I was in this Reddit group for Japanese photographers.

I saw this really cool image and told the person how much I liked it and wanted to paint it.

I was 3 months into watercolour so really wasn't sure I could manage to capture the vibe.

The sad thing is I posted the painting in that same group and tagged the photographer, and was promptly banned 🚫 lol. Oh well.

u/Ottaro_Chabo — 27 days ago
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We have a lot of plants in the living room and had a set of frames my mother bought us because she doesn't like white walls. My wife thought we should repurpose those frame with some tropical birds.

This is what I came up with.

u/Ottaro_Chabo — 29 days ago