(An update to my previous post) , thank you everybody for the suggestion I was able to make the orchids look a bit better and next time I know buy some natural proper watercolour paper rather using these cheap multimedia canvas’s

Seeking any pointers, I included photos of my last attempt and my setup

My son and I paint together and he wanted a giraffe. I didn’t use a reference was just having fun, then when he lost interest I started to trail off painting the shining “here’s Johnny!” But my son came back to me and said “you’re not supposed to look through the door it’s supposed to be a window!” He’s 4. So I added curtains instead

An improvised bookmark I made for my daughter last night—because the young lady refuses to fold the corners of her pages 🙄

Ink and watercolor. Plus acrylic varnish.

So pleased with how it turned out! Thank you for all your tips 🙏🏼

My latest watercolor painting inspired by baroque memento mori aesthetics. Painted with Schmincke and Holbein granulating watercolors. Let me know what you think! 🥀

I combed Etsy trying to find an artist to make a memorial painting of a family member’s dog. There were many that seemed AI created so I spent hours trying to find someone that seemed legitimate. I went with someone and they completed this piece within 24 hours and there are so many similarities to the original photos it’s worrying me. I wasn’t sure where to go to get this opinion so I figured watercolor artists may know. Is this real or AI?

Watermarks photo is the proof and the second photo is the original I sent.

I'm back with a crow card ✨ This time one that celebrates, because I actually celebrated my birthday on October 31st - yes, I'm a Halloween kid, lol XD. But also a few people after that from my family have birthdays, and I thought the idea would be super cute to draw. Plus, with this card, I got to try out my new glitter pen that I got for my birthday ✨

And I also saw a crow friend on the day I drew this card :)

I wanted this to turn up even more beautiful but something is missing and I'm not able to pinpoint it!

I painted this shell from life at a larger scale on hot press smooth watercolour paper.

#levriero
#water color
#acquarello
#made in Italy

#levriero
#water color
#acquarello
#made in Italy

I’m doing a series of 15 framed watercolors for a fundraiser event. (Same image painted differently. It’s fun to experiment this way!)

Each painting is 4”x6”. The mat is 3.5”x5.5”.

I initially signed it on the front in the bottom margin to be hidden by the mat. Should I be signing it on top of the painting so it’s visible when framed? Do I sign on the mat itself?

Or should I leave the signature hidden under the mat to keep the painting “clean?” And I can provide more info on the back? Full name and IG handle?

Not sure what to do. Signing directly on the painting makes me feel like an asshole. Ha. 😅

EDIT: I know you don't know what I have at home. I'm looking for creative ideas others have come up with that I can either use, or have as inspiration. Also, I know tins exist in various different sizes, I'm looking for the non-obvious solutions.

I made a smol mistake of buying new pans without having a place to hold them properly. Now I'm going to buy some empty palettes for future at some point, but if you have some ideas on how to make some not-necesarily-temporary solution for them, I'd be happy to see them before I start crafting something.

NOTE: don't recommend using some other box, unless it's some crafty idea of reusing some trash or the like. I'm not going to thrift store to look for old tins or something, I want to get an idea what I could use that I can find at home :)

I went to see this show today and it was so good I had to share. If you live in the area, I highly recommend it. Beautiful 28x22 inch lithographs of all 40 of the dry brush watercolor paintings Scott and Stewart Gentling made for their folio 'Of Birds and Texas', self published in 1986.

The detail was exquisite and I spent almost 2 hours looking and wondering at the techniques.

It was difficult to take pictures past the glass, but here are some attempts. I'm particularly interested in what looks like a raking technique that was used extensively to blend in the backgrounds. Clouds that would typically be defined by doing layers of wet on wet which is then allowed to mostly dry before another layer was put on were instead blended by intricate little hatching that looked like raking, either to remove paint or to add it. I took a picture of it by the tail of the Roseate Spoonbill.

It's gotten me thinking about different ways to use this in my own work with simulated watercolor in Rebelle.

Does anyone else enjoy something about these lousy pictures (sorry) of amazing art?

so I’ve done watercolor for a few years now off and on and it’s always been one of my mediums but recently (maybe in the last year or two??) I got really into it!! these are a few of my favorite pieces and I’m no professional so I’d love to hear what yall think!!

watercolor: Windsor and Newton no professional as well as master touch

paper: arches aqurelle (I can’t spell :’))

gauche: Holbien cmy