Category: Tutorials
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Rough Water Exercise 2: #1
Dang it I just typed up a whole comment on this and fell asleep before I hit send, and it got erased. Lessons learned here: 1) I dont like paintings of sunsets. 2) I think my pigments retain their color more as they dry than the pigments Ron uses – I should ease off a…
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Rough Water Exercise 1: #2
Apparently, I never typed up lessons learned on this one. I’ll have to come back to this later.
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Rough Water Exercise 1: #1
I didnt quite understand how to paint the waves according to the instructions in Ron Hazells book for this one. After painting the waves I found a video of him demonstrating his technique and I think I understand it better now. There were two mistakes I made at the outset that I can fix on…
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Rippled Water Exercise 2: #3
This one is a little better. The water is a bit over worked, and the cracks are darker than I like. The trees… mmmm not sure. I do like the clump of grass in the lower right though. I think I unlocked a bit of understanding on the rippled water. I was afraid of painting…
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Rippled Water Exercise 2: #2
Welp, strike 2. This one is far better than the previous attempt, but it isnt what I intended. I started getting really REALLY muddy on the left, and called it. For a few reasons I am struggling with this exercise. 1) I am not planning enough. Im trying to capture the spontaneity I see in…
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Rippled Water Exercise 2: #1
I hear often, I learn the most from my failures. I wonder if thats true. I did learn a lot on this painting, maybe I learned more than I have learned on successful paintings if we just count number of things learned. But, the quality of the lessons I learn on a failed painting are outweighed…
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Rippled Water Exercise: #1
I am not a fan of this painting at all, mostly because I dont like the subject. Its a beautiful scene, its just not my taste. Still, I am learning a lot as I go through this book. The main goal of this exercise is to get the ripples water right. I actually think I did…
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Calm Water Exercise: #2
Tonight I tried to paint the same thing and incorporate some of the lessons I learned last time. This is my second attempt at the exercise in the third chapter of Ron Hazell’s book The Artist’s Guide to Painting Water in Watercolor. As usual there are a lot of things I would do differently on…
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Calm Water Exercise: #1
This one is a couple days in the making. I got Ron Hazells book on how to paint water with Watercolor, and this is the exercise from the first chapter. Heres Rons Book, as well as a photo of his version of this composition. The Artist’s Guide To Painting Water In Watercolor: 30+ Techniques First,…
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Blue Hen Falls: #1
I tried a take on the Blue Hen Falls paintingRick Surowicz Watercolorposted a tutorial of. There are some things I like, and some I dont. I particularly like the rock in the foreground, and the water current in the lower left. I wanted some brush inthe mid ground, but it was too distracting, so I…