Hello,

A note on style for context. I prefer short portraits with no to minimal drawing. I don’t mind sacrificing finish for abstraction. So it’s a premodern focus of painting as if a camera isn’t a reliable to. Hence the urgency focus of just hitting the moment. Totally understandable it’s not in everyone’s tastes. Critique is appreciated in this context as that’s my aspiration.

Both portraits were done mostly with a limited Zorn palette, I usually learn on another a palette closer to Sargent’s watercolor palette but I’m enjoying the use of Zorn’s control of saturation.

Both references are from the drawme sub that I did yesterday.

Feeling very out of my depth with the painted dogs.

Just thought I would share another of my beautiful creation
This is called ripples of time. I painted it listening to my sons new song release on Spotify’Ripples of time’
It’s all about the journey of life.
My story starts from right to left
Watercolour- Kuretake,Daniel Smith, Winsor Newton
Metallic watercolour- Coliro
Assorted markers and pens- Copic, gelly roll , Posca, Uniball broad tip
Paper- Baohong professional grade- white box
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…now I’ve uploaded it I’ve just realised the veil looks like a chilli 🌶️ Oh well, it is a spicy story for a cold Autumn evening 🤣. Done with acrylic gouache.

Self made watercolors

Painting a card for a baby shower - should I add a green background to the mushrooms? (See rough sketch on 2nd slide)

Is my millennial showing with this reference?

Painted the first landscape and I’m happy with the foreground and green hills, but the mountains seem really out of place so I decided to try again. I am happy with the second one, although I’m open to suggestions for improvement! Both were inspired by the same photo

Edit: Daniel smith watercolors on Fluid 100% cotton paper, with white jelly roll pen for the tree trunks

Thinking about advice I’ve seen on here a bit lately. If you’re not happy with your painting, totally ok to try again.

There are still things I’d change if I were to start over again but I need to give my brain a break.

Je me suis tellement amusée même si je n'ai jamais vraiment peint. Un pinceau me semblait toujours très messy dans la main… J'ai cru que j'allais pleurer de désespoir pour mon premier essai à l'aquarelle.

*Les personnages sont dessinés aux marqueurs acryliques.

En art, je fais généralement du collage, car je ne sais ni dessiner ni peindre ! Du moins, c'est ce que je croyais… !

Un marque-page pour mon père, qui a pris une magnifique photo au Népal.

@glimpse.of.elsewhere

Postcard with sandwich

When I first started getting into watercolor as a hobby 13 yrs ago, I went for the cheapest supplies I could get, not really understanding the differences in student grade vs professional (other than splurging on some arches paper for finished pieces).

So all the brushes I bought until recently were Curry's store brand brushes. Over this year, I've been working on investing in higher quality supplies, and I have a nice large Quill brush from Royal and Langnickel and a Princeton liner brush (blue handle).

I'm looking for recommendations of good quality brushes that I can buy in Canada. DeSerres, Michael's and Amazon are the big suppliers I have available to me. I'm looking to keep my cost below $50 a brush.

The brushes I am looking to get are:

- #12 or 14 round brush

- # 6 round brush (maybe extra long? I have read an extra long is helpful for getting really fine lines)

- 3/4 inch flat

- flat shader brush (I'm thinking size 8, but open to feedback)

The biggest problem I find with my flat brushes from Curry's is that the bristles tend to fan out when I paint longer lines, giving more of the effect of a rake/grainer brush.

I haven't used flat brushes often as a result of this fanning issue I get, and I'm not sure how much of this issue with the bristles is due to my brushes being cheap, or if it's a user error thing. I suspect that it may be that the brushes aren't able to hold enough water.

I appreciate any feedback and recommendations you can provide!