Painted plein air at UChicago

Out on the dock this morning, copping moves from Alvaro Castagnet videos.

Finishing up this public art project in St. Joseph Mo.

Painted with Daniel Smith and Holbein watercolor, with a little bit of white Holbein gouache mixed into paint in some areas

Hello! I’ve come back to art after a very long time away and have picked up watercolor for the first time. I’m loving the fluidity of the medium and have been practicing line work and washes along with light and shadow while studying references.

Would love some helpful critiques on how to make my works more dynamic (they look flat to me) or just general advice on how to improve painting from references.

Thanks!

Blue-footed booby

(Sula nebouxii)

Ink and watercolor

I know this is highly subjective, but I’d love to know your opinions! Also, not just old masterful painters, current ones are welcome as well.

Im trying to show the beauty of my simple country.
our nature is simple and mainly dessert and sea. So Im showing other everyday beauty and the simple trees we have.
Im waiting for the weather to be good to do real plein air paintings.
The first is from a photo I took.
Second is a restoration of old red photo from I think 80s.
The last is an original composition of the entrance of our main market. from old documentary.
These are the size of A5.

Thank you!

This is my little book dedicated solely to searching new colours that I get and want to see what they can do. I find it's a good way to see values, hue and how it plays when watered down or as blooms, as well as documenting what the traits of the paint are.

Does anybody else have interesting ways to swatch paints? I'd love to see 🙂

I have a collection of leaves that I’m going to paint… I’ll need several lifetimes to get through them.

I swear I cannot watercolor properly it's not as good as what I expect so please help me improve TYSMM

Multiple times a day I see a post from this sub which goes “trying something new” and the art is gorgeous lovely evocative beautiful and I just want to open that post and type “girl this made me rethink my ill deeds”

but then I’d be typing that on every other post here

Y’all are so talented

Hi. I bought these from Aldi but im finding the colours aren't great. Very light colours, but ive seen other watercolours in more vibrant shades. Is it because its a student set?

Solved: someone suggested trying paper towels and i got more colour on there. I need to get some Watercolour paper.

Painted this little seahorse that reminds me of a species from Life Aquatic.