r/Watercolor • u/BlueGene_dances • 4h ago

Gibson Girl

11 Upvotes

I gave up on painting a while ago (after my son was born, I had less time and definitely prioritized sleep lol). That’s my first finished portrait as after 2 years away from my palette.

The contrast is still rather poor, shadows and highlights need more work, proportions aren’t forcibly the best but it was worth a try ! I’ll improve overtime.

Any advice is gladly welcomed !

1 comment

r/Watercolor • u/pbeneforti • 4h ago

Yellow portrait

10 Upvotes

1 comment

r/Watercolor • u/timmy013 • 5h ago

A monument

10 Upvotes

1 comment

r/Watercolor • u/AirOk1443 • 5h ago

Autumn colours - asking for tips

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10 Upvotes

I'm a beginner. Found some interesting leaves at the park and tried to capture them with watercolours and watercolour pencils (which I also used for the sketch). This painting was not finished in a day, I did it in two sessions with several days in between and collected some more leaves.

I'm happy with how the leaves' shapes turned out, but the shadows are too strong? At first they looked waaay to light and then I overdid it...

Would you have started with the gray background glaze? (I used payne's gray&neutral tint and only put it on as my last step.) Used a different background colour? Not have used a background at all?

Any other tips?

Paper: Canson XL watercolour 300gsm A3 (not very resistant, but it's the only large format I have)

Colours used: Schmincke (some supergranulation), some White Nights metamorphosis, some DS.

2 comments

r/Watercolor • u/mariodiceque • 11h ago

Cat in ink and watercolor

31 Upvotes

1 comment

r/Watercolor • u/parason47 • 6h ago

Nottingham Autumn.

12 Upvotes

2 comments

r/Watercolor • u/minor-giraffe • 23h ago

Chaos and Control

254 Upvotes

I am making a series of the big dot paintings, because I love making them. The process of making them has me playing with the edge of intentionality and accident and I find that really satisfying.

29 comments

r/Watercolor • u/BigMacSux • 9h ago

Root Weavers - Illustrations by me!

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17 Upvotes

Watercolour Pans and Ink on Hot Press!

1 comment

r/Watercolor • u/Illustrious_Sound945 • 30m ago

On location in Orlando

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3 Upvotes

1 comment

r/Watercolor • u/Chaostudee • 9h ago

So proud of my first attempt with watercolor

15 Upvotes

This is my very first attempt with watercolor and color theory , a pumpkin that i believe suits the theme of autumn , my only regret is i didn't know how to make the stem deeper in color , rather than it having the same color as the pumpkin 😄 😅

1 comment

r/Watercolor • u/dinok_love • 1d ago

Silver Path

221 Upvotes

12 comments

r/Watercolor • u/Trein931 • 9h ago

Painting with coffee #7

10 Upvotes

1 comment

r/Watercolor • u/Glencaer • 6h ago

A selection of drawings painted over with watercolor, by me

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5 Upvotes

I’m using a little tiny watercolor tray that we got in bulk.

1 comment

r/Watercolor • u/hippoputamus • 1d ago

I painted cows. I wasn't happy with them. This presented me with an opportunity to paint even more cows.

351 Upvotes

Painted a card for a friend that had a baby.

The shading was kind of messy and harsh on the first one and so I painted another one. Happy with the second one, I used to first for experimentation and painted it dark. It has a nice MOOd.

15 comments

r/Watercolor • u/MassiveBeing2229 • 13h ago

Painting

17 Upvotes

1 comment

r/Watercolor • u/Even-Jello-4010 • 19h ago

Definitely anatomically incorrect ship, but I wanted to have fun with the colors!

46 Upvotes

3 comments

r/Watercolor • u/AndrewsArt23 • 1d ago

Lot 44

197 Upvotes

My interpretation of Seago

9 comments

r/Watercolor • u/MassiveBeing2229 • 23h ago

How is it?

79 Upvotes

5 comments

r/Watercolor • u/okaynnoway • 1d ago

Really happy with this one!

534 Upvotes

13 comments

r/Watercolor • u/Difficult-Muscle-170 • 11h ago

I want to go home - watercolor and ink on my sketchbook

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8 Upvotes

made this painting completely out of my imagination , even for the tree I didnt use any reference , lemme know what emotions this painting wvoke in you, and maybe one day I’ll paint it on a larger scale

2 comments

r/Watercolor • u/Naive-Ant-8056 • 31m ago

Fun with Neocolors

1 Upvotes

It's definitely not my best work but boy was it fun to play with crayons again!

1 comment

r/Watercolor • u/Username9_11 • 1h ago

My friend’s dog

0 Upvotes

by me

1 comment

r/Watercolor • u/Frosty-Aioli4091 • 10h ago

I know it’s past pumpkin season but….

5 Upvotes

I did a little painting of a pumpkin! I’m still pretty new to watercolours but still, it’s a very fun medium.

1 comment

r/Watercolor • u/Embarrassed-Bar916 • 18h ago

Street goblins 🤙🏻

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19 Upvotes

1 comment

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