FEELING COMFORTABLE PLAYING WITH WATERCOLOUR AGAINš
At the he workshop from the great artist Alpay Efe, I got to meet his gorgeous wife Lioba BrrĆ¼ckner. She is a beautiful person and great artist.
You can read about the workshop on this post from @growandbow
Itās been a week since Iāve decided to support Lioba on her Patreon. She offers really quality material, explained real time tutorials and a community of artist to exchange with.
You can see her work and offers at her website here, her art and originals can be also purchased on her website.
Well, now it is time to share the first tutorial I followed with her, where we were painting an Egyptian Goddess.
I would like to share some of the pictures I did of the process, plus my thoughts.
First I did the first layers of watercolour.
I was using a 300gr watercolour paper from a block that I donāt remember what brand it was, because I had just a single sheet. And that paper WAS NOT good enough. But still worked for this practice.
I used Winsor and Newton student quality watercolour, which it has an excellent quality with an affordable price for the quality that offers. I also used the metallic colours from Van Gogh. At the beginning, when I bought them, I thought it was a capricious purchase with not a really good purpose, but it actually has a really nice effect on the original.
Tip: if you want to have good results, use good materials. The difference is huge and the frustration is less :P
I loved painting the details of the jewellery. The splashes have also been a signature in my old watercolour paintings, I love their randomness.
This is how the painting looked with just one medium. Even if itās true that one can achieve incredible results just with watercolour; over the years Iāve learned that using other mediums can accelerate the process and give really amazing textures, finishes as well as fix some errors.
after the watercolour phase, I used my new colours polychromos from Faber-Castell, absolutely brand new because Lioba recommended them them.
My teacher from the academy where I used to paint told me that the cheapest colour pencils also give amazing results, but I thought it was time to use a better quality of colour pencils.
I would like to add that my favourite colour pencils used to be Prismacolor, from which I bought 2 boxes; unfortunately those were left behind in Australia :(
Following the tutorial, I saw she used so many layers of colour pencils, and after she corrected with the white luminance , which I absolutely missed having. She kept working layer over layer.
This is pretty much the final result. In the end, I decided to draw a line in white to separate the face from the hair, as well as adding some white details where it was needed.
What have I learned?
- I need luminance colours!
- I need to make many layers!
- The artists showed the tutorial in about 1:30h but it took me between 7/8h to make it myself. Therefore, I need more practice>
In this case, I can say that Iāve already sold it! Number #101#
My sister in law was so in love that she decided to buy it.
I will be doing some series of these paintings and I will be selling the originals for very affordable prices because they are not my own designs but the ones I follow from a tutorial. (it is true that I always try to give my personal touch to these pieces).
Let me know, what are your thoughts about the process?
Do you like to paint with watercolour? Have you ever used mixed-media?
Or you prefer another medium?
If you have any questions, donāt hesitate in asking me on the comments below
I hope you have enjoyed reading and thank you for passing by!
Lluna šššš½
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