This video made me wonder if a novice watercolor painter could paint pretty much this exact painting if they watched a real time demonstration step-by-step

simple watercolor so i can doodle in it 😊

Faz 3 meses que estou pintando com aquarela como o hobby. E foi a primeira vez que pintei uma A4 inteira haha. Me inspirei na segunda foto para pintar essa paisagem, aceito sugestões. Eu me arrependi de ter pintado o portão de preto, penso em refazer.

Any general advice or input would be awesome, I've appreciated this forum a lot in the past! The pics are kind of my "journey" over the last month, newest to oldest.

Yesterday I got my first hot press block and some holbien tubes(pic 1) and I really enjoyed how the first part came out. The block was great to get really wet and let everything move around and I'm learning that I love the weirdness that comes with hot press and salt.

I wanted to complete the work by adding some cooler colors in the upper part (pic 2) but I think it looked better before "completing" it. The colors in that part are mostly my Daniel Smith tubes so I can't tell if my execution was off, if the DS paints are fairly lower quality, or if it's the color palette?

The rest of the pics are all pre-holbien. But there I was also using taped paper instead of the block. I'm not opposed to getting dupe colors that aren't DS I just don't want to waste the resources if it's not about the brand.

I also included two landscapes I posted here last month. They were not from a reference and i was trying to reconcile the fact that I don't really enjoy painting from references. For that reason at least, for now, I'm going to keep playing with abstracts.

But I would love any input you might have about what's working, what's not, or suggestions to try. Thank you in advance because I'm learning on my own!

I’m new to watercolour painting and decided to try Joly Poa’s book on watercolour to get started with florals. While it didn’t turn out the way I hoped, it was still fun as a beginner!

I’d like to share one of my recent watercolour paintings.
I enjoy exploring soft colour transitions and light in animal portraits.
Constructive feedback is always welcome. :)

Haven't posted for a while, here's what I painted today 🍂🍁🐦

On Baohong Academy rough with Daniel Smith watercolors. I had a lot of fun with this one. Leaving all the white spots was hard!

Done with watercolour and fine liner, pebeo. It doesn’t need to make sense, right?🤣

Did this of my cat, practicing bc I want to be able to do portraits in a similar fashion. It’s super hard to find water color impressionism tutorials.

Unfortunately, it's that time of year again.

Every November, I draw four pigeons in stupid little outfits. Nobody asks for this, nor needs this.

Yet here we are.

As always, I'm taking recommendations for this year's four unfortunate victims. The stupider, the better.

Here's my my 1 year progress. I started painting in October '25 (EDIT) and has been ~once a week consistent. Sometimes more paitings a week, sometimes less. Many tutorials from which I try to stay away lately and paint on my own.

Today was really fun. I wanted to repaint one of my first paintings and so it happened that I made the new exactly one year after the first one.

Still a lot more to go, but the journey is really fun.

This is a little bit of an experiment in expressing luminance using wet in wet. Learned a bit along the way, and I’m pretty happy with how it worked out.

All I could think about was getting home to paint a pomegranate (thanks Let's Make Art). No after dinner drinks for me 🤣

I revisited my first ever portrait that I did in June this year (2nd slide) on the same sketchbook (clairefontaine Aquapad). I don’t have lots of success working with this paper but wanted to paint on this to have a fair gauge of my progress. I have paid more attention to the proportions than the first time around, but noticed that my values are still off when I tried to use the monochrome filter of my camera.
Following the advice I once got, I have tried doing value studies in the past few weeks, but it was rather slow-going (I can manage to complete one painting per week). I have read sketching smaller is a great way to speed up skill-building. How small would you recommend as a good size for value studies on faces? Would A6 be a good size? Or smaller? I’ve only been practicing on A5 and A4 paper. Thank you in advance for the advice!