Tag: Watercolour
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Natural Beauty: Landscapes
For #WorldWatercolorGroup Today’s theme… Landscapes. A very, very quick watercolour today as I try to fit the above image into an A4 size piece of paper… I got most of the features and none of the detail. Ah well, you have to actually be out there to appreciate it properly! It was raining when I…
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Natural Beauty: Fossils
Fossil Inspired, anyhow. Today’s #WORLDWATERCOLORGROUP watercolour has been inspired by the Asteroceras Obtusym, otherwise known as the Obtuse Star Ammonite, which I’m taking to be a well-known fact. According to Wikipedia, this is an extinct species of cephalopod of the Ammonite sub-class. They were carnivores, nektonic at that. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived around the…
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Natural Beauty: Flowers
Sigh. You can’t win them all, can you? Between you and me, I think my skills at watercolour painting are improving. I’ve realised that less paint and more water adds to a far better watercolour effect… I just need to get my blending skills honed a little and then I’ll be almost there! Today’s Natural…
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Natural Beauty: Sea Life
I’ve gotten the old paintbrushes out again, and splodged a few watercolours around a piece of paper. It’s Natural Beauty time over at Doodlewash with today’s theme being Sea Life, so I thought I’d venture down that old road again. As usual, I had an idea as to what I wanted in my head… dolphins…
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Body Parts
I’ve not had a lot of time lately to do any kind of watercolour painting, and as such I feel I have lost what little knack I had. I tried to paint a couple of candles the other day, and the end result looked like some kind of strange stained glass window, so this swiftly…
The Mansionic Perspective 