Painting with watercolors after 25 years / Prophylactic self-isolation series. Day 191st.

Just have the desire and the magic will happen

It is around 25 years since I was painting with watercolors. These days I decided to give it a chance and try again:) Luckily, nowadays online tutorials are available for almost any topic of interest – just have the desire.

So I started from a blank page and the magic has happened!

My tutorials for watercolor techniques

13 Watercolor techniques by Mr. Otter Art Studio

Little Known Watercolor Painting Technique That’ll INSTANTLY Create Depth! by Makoccino

and Watercolor Painting Ideas for Beginners | Wet in Wet Technique by Makoccino

How to make it happen if the “inner I” resists even to try

I need to say, it is not easy just to try, it is almost impossible because of “inner brake”. It seems that “I am not good enough, I can not paint like Claude Monet, the result of my drawing will be ugly, it will not be the same good as in a tutorial”, and so on, and so on…Do you know this feeling?

So, we made it together with friends to have fun. I wrote for the friends of mine to join the tutorials and we shared the results after a week. And I hope we will do it again!

The results that make you feel uplifted

The magic of creation is just like this – you make it by yourself and now you feel great. What could be more valuable for a day? You feel great – that is all you actually need!

Honestly, I was not very satisfied when compared my results with the tutorial drawing, but, who cares?:) Who cares?:) The process of creation is like this – any result is incomparable, because it is unique. The moment you create something – you make it unique.

The moment you create something – you make it unique

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My after-thoughts

The paper for watercolor is important. I used 480 g/m², but it could be 300, I guess not less. Because it is watercolor, the watercolor paint need lots of water to catch the pigments of colors, so the type of paper is important.

I liked two techniques: salt technique and wet-in-wet technique. For me they seem as amazing possibilities to draw things.

Next step would be trying to paint something using salt or wet-in-wet techniques. Lets see later:)

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