Watercolors

Works

Here my attempts, in reverse chronological order. I'm currently practising imitating watercolor paintings I find online. Less frequently, I try to reproduce photographs.

2018

2018-04

2017

August 2017 - Watercolor lessons

During my stay in Berlin I casually found a watercolor teacher, who organizes 1.5h sessions for small groups of beginners. It's been greatly useful and rewarding.

Konzerthaus Berlin

Gethsemanekirche

This time I include various phases of the execution to document the process. After half the drawing was complete (2) I started trying to render reflections on the water (it's supposed to be a lake landscape). At this point a number of things went wrong: I failed to moisture the paper sufficiently; I tried to use a clean brush to absorb color in horizontal lines (giving the illusion of water ripples, and adding depth to the composition) but it didn't work; I didn't wait for the color to dry before trying to amend errors with other strokes of paint… and other orrible things.

(with the reference picture I used)

A couple of experiments with colors. Terschelling paper.

Terschelling paper.

Fabriano paper.

Links

Artists

Tim Wilmot

Gear

I'm currently using:

Paper
- Terschelling Aquarelbloc (300gsm, various sizes, Classic and Glad)
- Fabriano paper
- Hahnemühle watercolor book (200gsm)
Colors
- small Winsor & Newton watercolor set
- another small portable palette (Van Gogh ½ pans: Ultramarine, Yellow Cadmium, Sepia)
Brushes
- Da Vinci 16, synthetic
- Boesner 50/1314-3 (for water)
- Daler Rownet watercolor brush set
- random "Giotto" brushes I had at home
- Pentel Asquash waterbrush
- Boesner waterbrush set