#watercolors

[bladespark]

Metallic watercolors time!

I am way too easily tempted into new art forms, and I recently found some amazingly fun color-shift and metallic watercolors (from Iuile) that I love but I cannot afford the "real" sets, I just got some tiny samples.

But I have lots of mica pigments left over from my silicone sex toys that I no longer sell because everywhere is fucking prudish now. But hey, mica pigments + a very simple method where I only had to buy some gum arabic and a glass muller = easy sparkly watercolor paints.

This first attempt is, as you might be able to tell, a nice light pink with a golden color-shift shimmer that shows up more or less depending on the angle you view it from.

A test-swatch from the paint batch looks good, but the final test will be how it behaves when re-wetted after the pans dry.

Also I have learned things about batch size, lol. I made a lot more than I needed for a half-pan.

Anyway, having fun in the face of The Horrors. I will not let anything stop me from acquiring new art supplies and/or making fun new things!

[grilledsquids]

i have this ongoing beef with strangers in the watercolor subreddit. they downvote me when I suggest using cellulose paper because it's cheaper than cotton watercolor paper. i'm not the greatest painter in the world or anything, but i'm a good artist and a good teacher! i know what i'm saying! you really can make some great artwork with cellulose paper. it requires MORE water control than using cotton paper, and by learning that control, you can go even further with your techniques when you finally save up for cotton paper. If you're still learning color theory and proportions and value, you can practice all those things just fine on cellulose paper.

here is the frog i painted on cellulose paper before I ever knew cotton paper was a thing.

[yamarts]

𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬? 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵.

For Tiny Turtanen, there is beauty in everything. Sometimes you just need to look for it.

[A watercolor painting with some gouache, 4-ish hours]

[hiddenstashart]

[illuminoth]

progress pic 📸

[moonlitattic]

Made two illustrations (of my OC Kiyoko) for inking and coloring practice with some new Winsor & Newton Cotman watercolors. I added screentones digitally for the one in the middle.

[lindahall]

Andrey Avinoff – Scientist of the Day  Andrey Avinoff, a Russian/American artist, lepidopterist, and museum director, died in New York City on July 16, 1949, at age 65.

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