r/Watercolor

My second card for an autumn-themed swap is finally finished as well✨ I love how brightly the trees turned out. And I still love this granulating watercolor paint, oh it is honestly so pretty😭

Not so sure about this work, as I’ve done it literally to distract myself from something else and did it not thinking about, well, anything

Is there a specific name for this kind of style, or maybe there’s someone who works in such techniques? Someone with YouTube channel would be amazing as well 😅

Thank you for noticing my work!

Hey all! I painted this little fall landscape this afternoon after watching an Oliver Pyle video and tried to practice some of his landscape techniques. I’m pretty happy with how this one turned out and feel like some things clicked a bit with timing and paint consistency. Let me know what you think!

Many people come to this sub for feedback on their pieces.

Oftentimes there are two culprits for a piece not working,composition and values. I hope this is helpful in evaluating your own work. Edit: I was not claiming ownership of this work sheet. There are dozens of these available by different artists available online.

I’ve been trying to get away from using tutorials lately and have been enjoying just painting seascapes and water on my own.
I’m trying to get comfortable with not worrying about the end result, as long as I learned something.

I went surfing for the first time in ages last week and it left me with an urge to paint lively waves. I like the end result on this one, which is Qor paints on 640gsm Saunders Waterford CP paper. I went OTT on the masking fluid on top of the waves, as I tried using a toothbrush which was great for spray but less good for details. I don’t love the background water, and it’s not as turquoise-y as the ref pic (which I found on Unsplash). But! Today’s lesson was that there is more painting to do after the masking fluid comes off - going in with some shadows is what really makes it pop.

I've been obsessed with painting these lately! Finding my illustration style. I'm really proud of the wing details!

Reference is from a photo I took at the Exquisite Creatures exhibit.

Woke up with the idea to paint a tornado, but I wanted the water to shape it. Didn’t want to make it using a dry/wet brush, I wanted to pour water and shape the twister. I am overall happy with most of the painting. I tried to do it again probably 10 more times but they all went in the trash. I hate when this happens.

A gift for a deer friend 🦌

Wet the page first, then applied burnt umber, cadmium yellow, and burnt sienna straight from the scraper, no water yet, then sprayed it and tilted the page in different directions to let the color flow and pool, blotting and respraying as needed. Dropped in ultramarine blue and used a dotting tool to suggest something like trees, then went back in with the scraper for more horizontal movement and softened it all with a brush. Added a bit more burnt umber in the bottom right to ground the piece and lead the eye through it. Also, if you look closely in the upper right, those little pink specks weren't intentional, they transferred from an earlier piece I made on the opposite page. Decided to just let it stay instead of fighting it, felt fitting for how experimental this whole piece was.

Watercolour on paper, 14.8 x 21cm

One of the most common culprits in a piece that isn't working is values. A simple piece of red cellophane will help you see if your values need to be increased or decreased to conform to your composition.

I haven't touched a paintbrush in over 25years, figured if I want to get good at something may as well start now.

I dont think im particularly artistic and I know its all abit messy, but im enjoying the journey so far.

Anyways only 83 to go.

Any tips, pointers, or general advice would be much appreciated. Cheers

Quick study where I tried to get out of my own way. Just two paints: Daniel Smith Lunar Blue and Rose of Ultramarine, both heavy granulators. I protected one white channel at the start, then dropped pigment into a damp surface and let everything bleed toward it. The purples are the two colors mixing on the paper, and the blue pooling in the lower left is Lunar Blue on its own.

I really like the calm atmosphere of this painting. I painted it a few years ago, but even today, after more practice, successes and failures I am not sure if I can recreate it better.

Avgusta Šantel (1876–1968) was a Slovenian painter, teacher and printmaker. She was born in 1876 in Gorizia to a painter and art teacher Avgusta Aigentler Šantel and a maths and physics teacher Anton Šantel. Her first art teacher was her mother. In 1891, after attended primary school in Gorizia, she entered the teacher-training college, graduating in 1895. She was also taking violin lessons. In 1896 she got a job as a teacher at the first Slovenian school in Gorizia. In 1898 she passed the examination to teach at middle schools. In 1900 she spent a semester in Vienna at the Kunstschule für Frauen und Mädchen, where her professor was the Austrian painter Tina Blau. While studying there she created the first Slovenian artistic postcard for print. After returning from Vienna she worked as middle-school teacher in different places in Slovenia and Croatia, apart from short interruptions, until her retirement in 1933. In 1907 and 1908 she studied in Munich at a school of applied and fine arts; she attended an evening life-drawing course with the German painter Wilhelm von Debschitz and refined her flower still-life painting at the private school of the Austrian painter Margarete Stall. She was also very active in music, playing and teaching violin. Throughout all her life she was also involved in art. She worked in oil, watercolor, pastel, and colored pencil; she also tried woodcut and linocut. She drew lace patterns as well. Her subjects were mainly landscapes and views of the places where she lived, and flower still lifes. Her woodcuts mostly depict landscapes. She died in 1968 in Ljubljana.

This watercolor is in the collection of Maribor Art Gallery (Umetnostna galerija Maribor).