Showing posts with label watercolor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label watercolor. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Model



This is a portrait painting I did of a model with watercolor paints. I like painting portraits because of the way I can bring volume to the piece by using shades. I used a bunch of different black watercolor paints layered throughout the piece which I had not done before so it was a different outcome than what I used to get previously. I did this piece based off of the lectures about the different portraits I saw in different lectures but in my own style. I will definitely use the layered painting technique in the future.

 

Thursday, March 23, 2023

Peaks and Shallows

 



I did this study with watercolor at Lake Osceola on the campus of the University of Miami. The greatest challenge was to work around the white highlights in the beginning, as proper watercolor dictates that one should not use white paint afterwards. I layered values of blue, working from low opacity to high opacity to build the forms of the ripples. This exercise gave me good insight into how to use different amounts of water to make strokes of different values.

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

The 1000 Year Coconut


 This illustration was made with pen and watercolor. The subject is a capital P represented in form with a palm tree. The linework creates the majority of the forms, with the watercolor loosely applied and not confined within the lines. The background is abstracted, with splashes of yellow to represent sand and the sun. Splotches of green on the horizon line indicate further vegetation in the distance but the hierarchy is clearly focused on the P.