#poetry watercolor

[jujstarzzzzy]

painting I finished a few days ago wooo

[gavas-world]

People are oceans. You cannot know them by their surface

[lirotation]

Went thru my old sketch book and saw this quote. I thought it really suits my Tav. This is a verse from "Love’s Philosophy" By Percy Bysshe Shelley

[grendel-menz]

portrait of a hunter who provides to none

[adriancm]

Fingers brush softly,

Over keys of memories,

Echoes fill the night.

[aqua-regia009]

Sappho in Lefkada, watercolor. — Gustave Moreau (French, 1826-1898)

[angel-inbloom]

quite possibly one of the cutest pieces of art i have ever made :’)

[lerildeal]

A mix media comic I made for my art history class that I’m posting here before I even turn it in lol

Watercolor, charcoal, ink, colored pencil, and sharpie

[whitherward-art]

Two different versions of a piece I call "The Philosophy of Dandelions", inspired by and featuring the words of @headspace-hotel. I don't know which one I actually like better.

Print available here!

(Image description: Two versions of a painting that feature acrylic-painted dandelions against a watercolor backdrop of approaching thunder clouds. The dandelions have both floral and seed heads, and the seeds are being blown away by the wind. Each piece has the words "Unapologetic. Hard to kill. Feral, filled with sunlight, bright, beautiful in a way that the conventional and controlling hate, but cannot ever truly destroy. Stubborn. Happy. Bastardous. Friends with bees. Highly disapproving of lawns. Full of wishes that will be carried far after I die." There are some differences between the paintings; the first is in a portrait orientation with a grayer-toned sky, and the words are overlaid via strips of gray paper with black text, while the second is in landscape orientation with a more yellow-toned sky, and the words are painted directly onto the piece in yellow and blue. End image description.)

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: Watercolour Techniques

1. Scraping and Scumbling

Scraping is a technique artists use that involves using a knife or thumbnail to scrape away dried pigment and expose the paper below.

The artist J.M.W. Turner created the bright white highlights on the waves using this technique in his painting Longships Lighthouse, Lands End.

Scumbling is a technique that artists use to build a textured, layered surface that creates depth.

It involves applying paint in a rapid figure-eight or circular manner to the colors below.

He used his thumb nail to scratch at the surface of the watercolor paper to remove the darker color.

When using this technique, it is important to work while the paper is damp or wet.

2. Layering

Layering the paint in thin translucent watercolor washes creates depth and sense of movement.

J.M.W. Turner later added the warm earth colors to define the waves and added opaque areas of white gouache to create the bright highlights on the waves.

3. Blotting and Wet on Wet

Blotting involves removing wet pigment with a sponge or a rag.

In this painting, artist J.M.W. Turner used blotting to create the flickering illumination from a distant lighthouse at the middle left.

Wet on Wet involves wetting the paper before applying color with a brush.

Turner used wet-on-wet technique to create the atmospheric effects on the left-hand side of the watercolor.

THE FULL PAINTING:

Writing Notes & References

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Emil Nolde, “Inundation” (nd, watercolor on paper)

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“Time itself does not ‘console,’ as people say superficially; at best it assigns things to their proper place and creates an order.”

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Countess Margot Sizzo-Noris-Crouy, January 6, 1923

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Clown in the Moon

My tears are like the quiet drift Of petals from some magic rose; And all my grief flows from the rift Of unremembered skies and snows.

I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream.

~ Dylan Thomas

[galleryofart]

Erato Muse of Poetry

Artist: Edward John Poynter (British, 1836 - 1919)

Date: 1870

Medium: Watercolor on paper

Collection: Private collection

Erato, Muse Of Poetry is a famous oil painting, originally by English artist Sir Edward John Poynter in 1870, with the style of academism. The painting now is collected by private as collection. This kind of portrait oil paintings is very common in visual art.

[leapdayowo]

them <3 but as dragons :D

I’m not at all familiar with drawing dragons, but the idea was planted in my head and I cannot let it go! After some trial and error this is what I’ve got! I’m very happy with how the designs turned out, and I hope to expand a bit on the idea :3 The turned into animals prompts very much helped me commit to this too <3

[artanzo]

Inner Peace.

Get art prints on my website, link in bio :)

[grendel-menz]

an old doodle poem thing

[agraphicf1shermanscatch]

fall-ing