Watercolor WIPs- Sharing and Learning

[silvy]

This post is very interesting and your last is superb!
Hope to see more !

[Steve B]

Did this in 1/2 hour last night, and figured I'd call it done.

Lots of Sticker Sprays used-- Juz's Triangular Chaos, Sos's Sponge set (the ones he recently posted that are flat), some of the Airbrush Splats from the Art Brush set done in white, and the Blooming spray as well for the darker area on the trunk, though used to paint with rather than to do "dots". I played a lot with the Spray Variation settings for Hue and Luminance, turning them up a bit just to around 15% when using the spray-- this creates just a bit of color variation and a slightly mottled effect for value. It's nice and seemed to work well. You can see this best in the tree and the grassy area. I did a big wash in the background on one layer, moving from Orange to Yellow to Blue/Green at the bottom-- then erased some with a soft eraser behind the darker grassy horizon line to backlight the tree. I got the watery drippy-spready area at the bottom by using the Hard Out Smear palette knife.

Input is welcome! It's all just an experiment to find stuff out, so post any crits or questions or response paintings you might have.

[Steve B]

Did this this morning. 45 minutes. From a photo on a drive recently. I locked the layers after laying down color, and then would blend and lay in new colors with the Transparency locked-- this provided lots of interesting effects-- you can see them most clearly in the tree, mountains, and grey clouds. Used the Hard Out Smudge with a pretty high setting (60-70%) to dust the rain clouds down and get them wet. I was having a very hard time with the setting lower-- but it works much better and drags the paint farther with a higher setting. Watch out though-- too high and it never ends. :P Would like to do more, but the experiment is to do them quick. Besides, I have to go to work!!! LOL.

As before, interested in feedback and input. Thanks guys! This is fun, you should try it and post it here.

[jbeau]

Nice Looks on your latest test pieces! I was just experimenting with locking the transparency lastnight I like using a dry brush to lay down the color and then lock the transparency. Then use a wet brush to remove some color or go wet on wet with different hues. Thanks for sharing SteveB

[screenpainter]

beautiful additions Steve. I especially love the latest one called backlit tree. awesome to get to see your watercolor experiments. thank you.

[Rondo]

i really like this kind of stuff well done!

[Weeks]

Nicely done, Steve B, great rendering...

Best,

Weeks

[Luckofthedraw]

Hi Steve B,
As a raw beginner and only just purchasing Artrage today these are just the sort of inspirational examples and informative posts that I need.
I think I have a lot to learn just to get started but the journey should be exciting.

Please keep it coming.

[mannafig]

Great little paintings

[Steve B]

Worked on this today. Line work was done in Paint Tool Sai, then imported to Artrage for all the color work. A big canvas by normal standards for me at 3200 x 6400, but meant to simulate a 9 x 9 kids book, so a 9 x 18 2 page spread. And yes, the perspective is intentionally skewed/tilted on the chicken coop-- though I wonder now if its a bit too much. Meant to add some fun drama. I'm up for critiques, if people see things to improve.