• Day 004 of 147 Learning Watercolor: Waterdrop

    Fridayyyyy! Today’s practice was painting a water droplet. To start: Then fill in blue. I painted along the outline, then used a clean wet brush to spread out the dark blue. I added in darker blue to the top, then tried to make it even darker, which seemed to have worsened it. Added in shadows…

  • Day 003 of 147 of Learning Watercolor: Outline with Pencil and without

    I drew something. And then I mixed colors. Now that purple is mixed, I can start to fill in the outline of the grapes. Hmm….something does not look right. At this point, it would have been a good idea to just fill in the white highlights with a dark blue or gray to act as…

  • Day 002 of 147 of Learning Watercolor: Mixing Colors

    I swear I will chop my hands off if I buy anymore paints. Anyways, I practiced mixing colors. In computer science, colors are combos of RGB (red, green, blue). In watercolor, the primary colors red, yellow, and blue could be used to mix many more colors. I think while the goal was to mix colors,…

  • Day 001 of 147 of Learning Watercolor: Swatch Observations

    Recently I was extremely happy for my best friend when her boyfriend proposed to her after a long run of five years. That special moment was as pretty as a painting, then as I replay that scene in my head in the following few days, I had the brilliant idea to start learning watercolor. I…