Tag: #WorldWatercolorGroup
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Natural Beauty: Bees

I’ve spent far longer on this painting than I should have done. It’s now 10:20pm and I started it just after 7. I kept adding a touch here and a splosh of colour there, I just couldn’t stop. Today’s prompt for #WorldWatercolorGroup is Bees. Fascinating creatures, they are, when you stop and really look at…
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Natural Beauty: Fruits

For #WorldWatercolorGroup. Today’s Natural Beauty prompt is fruits. I gave myself fifteen minutes to clobber together a pineapple, just using the paints, no pencil sketching beforehand. The leaves remind me a little of my hair at times, but they are meant to be leaves in this instance. And the pineapple looks kind of pineapple-ish, so…
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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…