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J got me some Arteza watercolor brush pens for Christmas and I've been keen on trying them out. Unfortunately, it took me awhile to find my watercolor paper. Watercolor is something I really like the IDEA of, but have done very very little in. I got some watercolor pencils (Sargent Art 36 color set) years ago and I like them pretty well! They blend out relatively cleanly and I can get pretty fussy with the details/layering.
That's kind of the thing for me. Watercoloring is sort of known as being a pretty loose medium and a skilled artist can use that looseness to the advantage of the piece they're working on. I am not a skilled artist and I am also finicky, so even though watercolor is appealing conceptually, it tends to give me more heartburn than anything.
But I was intrigued by the brushpens. I feel like they're kind of a good balance between Absolute-Tyrannical-Control and Oh-God-The-Paint-Is-Thinking-For-Itself. Well... I theorized they were, anyhow, based on a combination of some YouTube reviews I watched and my own optimism. Thankfully, I was pretty much right!
Given that I haven't used anything to watercolor with other than watercolor pencils since I was in high school and I am now 33 years old, I was a bit nervous about jumping in. What do people watercolor? Despite following a lot of watercolor artists on YouTube, I was kind of at a loss. When I did non-pencil watercoloring I did, like, really shitty landscapes. So I was thinking, "a shitty landscape?" and then I thought about doing a painting of Bag-End from the Hobbit, but I thought that was rather too ambitious. J suggested I ease into it by painting a fat pony.
So, I present to you, gentle reader: A fat pony
That's kind of the thing for me. Watercoloring is sort of known as being a pretty loose medium and a skilled artist can use that looseness to the advantage of the piece they're working on. I am not a skilled artist and I am also finicky, so even though watercolor is appealing conceptually, it tends to give me more heartburn than anything.
But I was intrigued by the brushpens. I feel like they're kind of a good balance between Absolute-Tyrannical-Control and Oh-God-The-Paint-Is-Thinking-For-Itself. Well... I theorized they were, anyhow, based on a combination of some YouTube reviews I watched and my own optimism. Thankfully, I was pretty much right!
Given that I haven't used anything to watercolor with other than watercolor pencils since I was in high school and I am now 33 years old, I was a bit nervous about jumping in. What do people watercolor? Despite following a lot of watercolor artists on YouTube, I was kind of at a loss. When I did non-pencil watercoloring I did, like, really shitty landscapes. So I was thinking, "a shitty landscape?" and then I thought about doing a painting of Bag-End from the Hobbit, but I thought that was rather too ambitious. J suggested I ease into it by painting a fat pony.
So, I present to you, gentle reader: A fat pony
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Date: 2019-01-08 08:46 am (UTC)From:I think it's just one of those things where I need to get used to it. The first painting method I ever learned in my life was watercolor since schools can get watercolor pans pretty cheap compared to other painting mediums. But once I started with acrylic, I didn't really look back. I like the quick drying time and how incredibly precise I can get--plus, it's usually opaque enough I can just cover up my mistakes which isn't as much of an option with watercoloring. But I really love the effect! I like the quality of the colors and the way they blend together... I want to learn more, but I need to be patient and that's basically the hardest thing in the world.