my take on the lighthouse watercolour tutorial that @jacqbb posted, and i have the audacity to post it right next to hers.😜
i wasted a brush when i tried to use the masking fluid on the lighthouse. it was lumpy and dried so fast so i just let it go and did as i normally would -- paint around the lighthouse image. i painted only the sky wet on wet. the lower part, i used gouache to convey the shape of the waves.
i couldn't do the water spray in watercolour, whereas i could do that with decent results if i was using acrylic. so i decided i will paint this again in the medium i am more comfortable with -- acrylic. i would guess the result would be very different.
i got a clipart image of the lighthouse but i changed the stripes to diagonal. why? because i wanted to. 😜 but i forgot the birds!
@summerfield Whoa!!!! This is astonishing. It surely belongs next to Jacqueline's.
Now I am eager for the acrylic version.
Echoing Kathy @kjarn : why 2024?
@summerfield watercolour is notoriously difficult, apparantly, so why not just use what you like and use a mix of media?? ?? Rocks, light house and sky are fabulous, movement in the water apparent .
Glad you painted this in the future, gives me time to catch up with your skills
@summerfield sorry you wasted a brush on the masking fluid. I think there’s a trick to using a brush but I can’t remember what it is. Your painting is remarkable. In the sky so realistic looking. I love how you have made it your own.
All your past obsessions of aliens are ever so clear to me now! You are a time traveler!
The movement of the water is so well shown, the diagonal stripes are fabulous and I think I prefer them to the straight ones. Reading about your problems with the masking fluid makes me wonder whether or not I want to try using mine. Will have to bite the bullet at some point otherwise I've just wasted money on the masking fluid and not braved finding out for myself whether or not I like or even know how to use it @summerfield
@summerfield l love the choppy water Vikki. And I prefer the diagonal stripes! If your masking fluid is very thick you probably have to toss it away. I use a little pen like thingy that is called a shaper to put the stuff on my paper, but to be honest I rather work without it. I really want to see this in acrylics if that is your preferred medium. But aces!!!
@kjarn@monikozi@grammyn@30pics4jackiesdiamond - i went over two years thinking i should be a better artiste by then. well, now, i think i should just quit altogether as evidently i've had no improvements two years hence! 😄
frankly, i think my fingers have their own separate brains.
@summerfield don't you DARE give up!! Look back over the past two years, you've consolidated your skills, learnt new ones and you know your expertise is in skies and waves.
Go paint a teacup..... bet you get that right too!!!
okay, this needs a real good slaying. so slay!
Now I am eager for the acrylic version.
Echoing Kathy @kjarn : why 2024?
Glad you painted this in the future, gives me time to catch up with your skills
All your past obsessions of aliens are ever so clear to me now! You are a time traveler!
frankly, i think my fingers have their own separate brains.
Go paint a teacup..... bet you get that right too!!!