• Day 009 of 147 Learning Watercolor: Fried Egg

    Clocked in 1:30 hours. Practiced random things today. I wanted to continue the seafood series and searched up a picture of an oyster: it seemed too complicated for a newbie like me. So here is a fried egg instead. This time a different paper was used.

  • Day 008 of 147 Learning Watercolor: Shrimp

    It’s late today. The colors look muddled and I think layered too many times. 2nd try. Eyes are better but the body….. 3rd try. The order of which is the earlier attempt, it seems somehow in reverse…

  • Day 007 of 147 Learning Watercolor: Crab(?)

    Clocked in 1 hour. Practiced a lot of leaves, but we’ll skip sharing that. I initially painted the carapace from memory of a crab, then I had to search for a picture to see how many legs total: FYI usually 8 walking legs and 2 pincers. The legs on the left side are a little…

  • Day 006 of 147 Learning Watercolor: Dry Time

    Short post today. Today’s practice was similar to grapes. Yellow base and tint of orange. The right yellow layer was already dried when I applied the orange so it is unable to spread naturally. I had to start over; the most difficult task was water control —see pigment runs everywhere when it’s too wet, and…

  • Day 005 of 147 of Learning Watercolor: Patterns

    I hoarded a lot of paints and decided to open and swatch the sennelier set today. Like Holbein, the Sennelier pans were easy to wet. Here are the swatches: In the set, would you have guessed the top row 4th-8th color without swatching? I certainly wouldn’t. After swatching, tried to paint a tablecloth. It’s supposed…

  • 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…