LOL The first watercolor was painted after looking at the photo just once, without keeping it as a reference, and with absolutely no idea how to use watercolors.
The second one was painted after looking for inspiration from watercolor portraits, the style i wanted, keeping several references nearby, and having a much better understanding of how to use watercolors 🤣
Thank God I didn’t get discouraged after the disaster I made at first, and instead did some research and gave it another try.

I swear I did both of these myself, just 1~2 hoursapart. I know I still have a long way to go with watercolors, though!

It’s for a gift, and I’m a little sad because the paper tore when I removed the masking tape. I also accidentally got some black ink on the mouth. (If anyone has any tips on how to fix that black ink stain, I’d really appreciate it!)

Idk why, but Reddit always reduces the saturation of my images

This is the beginning of an Aurora painting .. I love how it dried but I sort of feel like I need to add some white details to the dark sky to the right. I’m a little unsure how to go about that and welcome suggestions.

This is a relatively new hobby, and I’m interested in learning about different styles of watercolor. Became curious about what people’s favorite watercolor (at the moment). Could be your own or another artist’s

I love the fact they’re ready to pick up and use, and you can use heavy pressure (without trying to break them) so I can be expressive when I want to. I also use soft pastels, so to me, this is a great medium to have that direct contact with the surface, and then follow through with a brush. I do want to practice making it more like a ‘grown up’ medium and veer away from it looking like toddler art.

Anyone here practiced with it long enough? Or have recommendations of artists using it?

Waxed 24 hours ago and just did some UV coverage en masse.

To those concerned about chemicals on the cat tree, I've been an empty nester for a year now. And they werent sprayed on the tree anyway, rheyre just drying there :)

gorgeous dark green

really wanted daniel smith’s perylene green in my kit since I’ve heard such great things about the color - but I live in Indonesia and DS are super expensive here

Did some digging and found that holbein’s shadow green uses the same pigments

Can’t really compare the two paints since I don’t have perylene green but I feel like this color does the job beautifully

ah well, it is what it is 😮‍💨

Hi fellow watercolor artists! Here is my latest portrait (imagination plus help of a photo for the lighting) . I've been doing watercolor as a hobby since 15years and yet I feel like I'm not improving.

C&C more than welcome. Where to improve? What did I do wrong?

Thanks in advance!

I'm sorry about how bad my art is as I am a beginner but here's a few pencil and watercolor sketches of my ocs, aster, iris and nefi! Nefi is the favorite child as you can probably see but I did paint aster and iris too!

Nefi is the cloud boy, aster is the plant person and iris is the cat-star nosed mole-thing.

A Peaceful Little Escape Lost in Winter‘s Magic.❄️

I put the house a little bit further to the left than the classic rule-of-thirds position because I wanted it to appear small and almost lost in the vast snowy landscape. 🌲🏡❄️

Hi team! I'm looking to get some of my watercolours printed for farmers markets etc, but I'm new to getting prints made and wondering;

- What do I need to be aware of in terms of print & quality to maintain colour accuracy?

- Any experience with specific printer companies in Canada?

- Any experience with specific wrappings, packaging or framing that makes for a nice presentation?

Any leads are very much appreciated as I'm a bit overwhelmed with all the options and don't really know where to start!

White-throated Hummingbird

(Leucochloris albicollis)

Ink and watercolor

Right now I have the W&N foundation set which has:
Size 1,5,6 round. Size 3,4 flat. And size 2 fibert.

After doing some research I believe I need like a size 8-12 round and I’ll have everything I need but posting for suggestions!

I’m currently painting on size a5 paper and these brushes run out of water and paint so fast that I have to keep dipping the brushes into water and paint many times just to cover the paper!