#Watercolor on arches

[arinewman7]

Insomnious Lights - The Woolworth Building III

Paul Ching-Bor

Watercolor on arches, 2016

[frankietankbaker]

Here's a painting I recently did. This one's for my old man

[idrawprettyboys]

My precious angel ❤️‍🩹

I really enjoyed drawing this one! I definitely want to do more drawings of Majima with his hair down. I listened to a lot of sad love songs while drawing this, like When She Loved Me by Sarah McLachlan and Same Old Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg, because they made me think of Majima and Makoto's relationship. I put glitter under Majima's eye to make it look wet like he'd been crying. I was a little concerned that it might look like he was wearing glittery makeup, but I feel like it got the point across. Also, his dark circles are always tricky.

[kellyaroman]

Hi everybody! I'm selling my original Gothic Window Arch ink and watercolor illustration I completed back in 2021. Available in my shop or Etsy if you're interested! This is the original so only one available. Thanks for all the love on my art! ~Kelly

[marejadilla]

Jason Mowry, “Glitter afresh forever”, 2020, watercolor and Gouache on Arches 300lb Watercolor paper. Was born and lives in Ohio.

[keyonsketches]

"white-throated sparrows" watercolor by Keyon aka Kirsten Dennis; 18"x24"; part of "native birds of the lake Erie area" series

Close up, I'm so proud of this bird's eye *pats on back*

Process shots

[skunkes]

i think watercolor wld be less daunting if it didnt require special paper, which is Obvious but I dont even mean it in the "i dont wanna waste the good paper" way, more like I'll doodle aimlessly in my sketchbook and if a Nice Drawing happens to come out of me as a result, and I feel like painting over it in gouache, I will simply do that... watercolor is scary bc i feel i have to go into the Specific Special Paper with a plan and I rarely have plans

[pen-bee]

Been working on Penpal watercolor postcards again!

[katydoodles]

WIP

I haven’t painted in so long

[pickled-flowers]

Re: drawing requests

Sunflowers? Or maybe a layout of yellow things the way you did with the color pink

Have a good one! Happy drawing ✌️

I'm doing traditional art at the moment if anyone else wants some yellow things

[beekindac]

First in a series for PNW Birds that overwinter here. Working on a digital brochure to help folks know how to help care for these birds over the changing winter months. I'll post the link when it's available for anyone interested in helping the birdies out. Until then, please enjoy my take on the fierce little Anna's Hummingbird. If you wanna know more about the colors used, just ask. :)

[glassforge]

Window Art Glass from 1914 by the National Ornamental Glass Manufacturers of US and Canada in the International Art Glass Catalogue

[idrawprettyboys]

🔥 Prince Zuko 🔥

[wetpigmentonpaper]

Painting Pearl Process - Part One!!

Step 1: Deciding the reference photo does, actually, have merit

When I asked my friends for their favorite picture of their pup Pearl, I wasn't expecting this vaseline-filter, monochrome answer. I wasn't in love with it, so I put it away for a couple months. This weekend, the dramatic lighting finally sparked my inspiration: I can try really stretching what I can accomplish with light and shadow!

Step 2: Create a shadow map

This is a new technique to me, from Lynn Ferris's demo at SWS's October meeting. She placed trace paper over her reference photo and blocked in everything that was shadow. No nuance to it - just yes/no is it in shadow. Once done, she recommended flipping the shadow map upside down and looking at it in a mirror to double-check that the composition is balanced.

I have here an 8.5" x 11" color copy of my reference photo with plain old trace paper on top. I was so happy with the result that I decided not to create a value study for this one. I plan to reference this shadow map heavily as I paint to help simplify the shapes.

Step 3: Tracing

Yep, I trace all my paintings. What can I say - I'm learning to paint, and I just feel a little bit more confident going in if I know the base drawing isn't wonky. I try to sketch on the side, though, so maybe one day I'll feel confident enough in my skills to draw right on the paper!

Shoutout to my partner for enbiggening the photo for me lol. This painting will be 9.5" x 13", perfect for a quarter sheet of Arches Cold Press 140#.

Here, I simply lined up my print-out on the light table and layered my paper on top. When tracing, there are a couple things I do intentionally:

Draw the border of the image (easy to forget, and will help with matting eventually)

Use a hard pencil (used 6H here) so the lines are light

Step 4: Paint????

Now that I've prepared my paper, there's nothing stopping me from painting this puppy dog. I haven't decided yet if I want to do an underpainting or keep those lights pure paper-white....tbd!! I'll try to take pictures as I paint so I can post a part two.

Wish me luck :)

[marejadilla]

Brian Haberlin, “Wilma”, watercolor on arches paper. Honolulu, Hawái, USA (19 de agosto de 1963) Brian Haberlin is an award winning American comic book artist, writer, editor and producer.

[keyonsketches]

"American tree sparrow in snow" watercolor by Keyon aka Kirsten Dennis; 11"x14" on arches cold pressed paper, part of native birds of the lake Erie area series