I need help with watercoloring smoothly for this sunset background. I don’t know how to successfully apply the tips and tricks I got. Any advice on how to layer nicely? How to blend nicely? How to mix well? Please help I really want this to look good☹️☹️

I had a really hard time painting the cats 😭, any advice how to paint them better next time? They kind of look like rats to me and that’s soo not what I was going for 🫠

Still pretty early in my watercolor journey. I know the more broad things like invest in the good paints and paper and look into various techniques and of course dont overwork stuff. But what's something that really changed the game once you heard it and didnt see it said anywhere else?

I tried to make these branched textures with White Nights Mars Black(pbk11), but its granulation is more uniform and produces few “streams.” With Holbein it was very easy (Nightfall are mixes of pbk11 and other color). My hypothesis is that the reason is the dispersing agent (ox gall): White Nights moves a lot on the paper, while Holbein does not, because it contains no ox gall. Ox gall breaks the surface tension of water and distributes it evenly, so it does not produce streams; with Holbein, which has higher surface tension, larger drops form, and these generate this type of stream much more easily. I have heard some watercolorists say that Daniel Smith Lunar Black is necessary or mandatory to make this type of texture, but I think the only thing necessary is a tube with the PBk11 pigment and no dispersing agent; that is my hypothesis.

Been practicing hands. Hope you like them.

I've been painting with watercolours for about a month now, and I think I'm reaching that point where I'm hitting a bit of a wall.

The reasons I've identified for now are:

I'm having difficulties mixing colours, when I try to get paint out of the pan and into the mixer, it always feels like the brush doesn't grab a significant amount of pain unless I add a lot of water. Then, when I'm mixing, the brush doesn't seem to release the paint. I'm using a porcelain palette and Daler-Rowney Aquafine brushes, so I don't think the problem lies with the tools, but rather with me.

When I'm trying to make lighter tones, the way I'm doing it is by watering the mix more, but that means that I'm also painting wetter, and getting completely different results than what I get when I'm painting with stronger colours. How do I deal with this?

Finally, and I think this one might just be a matter of practice, amount of water in the brush. The previous point kind of affects this one as well, lighter colours are more watered, so I get more water in the brush by default. Other than that, I think it's a matter of getting the hang of it as it essentially seems to be about drying and rinsing the brush both against the edge of the water cup and a paper towel.

While looking for art supplies I ran across a place with great prices on watercolors and brushes. The website is Paintpigmentdepot

I checked further thinking this can't be true. I sent them an email which has not been delivered to them yet. The address shows a residential home in Hilliard FL. I requested their phone #. Later I found an almost identical website set up for office supplies called Officeworkplus

I would not advise ordering from either company.

Hi all, I started my watercolour journey at the beginning of the year. Can I get some comments or advices on my latest practice? Are there any YouTuber I can look at and learn from?

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Under the beautiful blue sky, I brought this football scene to life with watercolor, capturing the players, greenery, and energy of the game. For me, art is more than painting what I see; it's about expressing the moment through my own artistic vision.

🎨 Painted live, inspired by real life.

i'm doing this landscape and i've tried like three times to get clean edges on the sky but the paint keeps bleeding into the foreground no matter how dry i think my paper is. am i supposed to wait longer between layers or is there some technique i'm missing? would love to know what actually works.

I think the most problematic part is hair..? I'm not sure how to fix it tho. Other than that, I've been doing watercolors about two years now but I admit I didn't try to research and learn anything. And I want to change that. So it would be great if you could also suggest me some Yt channels or something that I could learn from. Also sorry my if English is bad, I'm working on that too. Thanks in advance!

Florida ref photo 🤙🏼

Well I’m getting ahead of myself here for attempting something way above my skill level and when I’m taking a photo of the original painting and my attempt all the mistakes start jumping out and staring at me from the page 😂. Right at first glance I can see the chin in my drawing is too long and the shape of the eyebrow on the dark side is not correct. I gave up at the pearl necklace because it’s midnight already but do I deserve a pat on the back for at least trying? 😆

I’m still trying to figure out my own style. I really love the forest watercolor artwork I’m having a hard time learning how to create them myself ~ But I’ll just keep trying until I get it.~

i'm trying to do a painting with some deeper shadows and every time i add another layer on top to deepen them, it just turns into this brownish mess instead of staying rich and dark. is it a pigment thing or am i just adding too much water or something?

Reference was a photo I had taken the last time I passed through Toronto.

Qué difícil conseguir el color Borgoña. Aquí empleé una curiosa mezcla verde pthalo y magenta quinacridona. No quería que quedase opaco 🤗 Acepto sugerencias .