watercolour: making marks

I really enjoyed completing project no. 5 from Water, Paper, Paint by Heather Smith Jones this week.

:: project 5

A great little exercise using colour and different size brushes. I have a real soft spot for spots too... love them! I decided to use cool colours and instead of black for the small marks I mixed up a dark grey, so it wasn't so dark! I'm quite pleased with how it turned out :)

:: painting spots and adding more hue to
the paint to make it a stronger colour

:: used size 2 brush for the small marks

:: overlapping small marks on some of the spots

I learnt a lot from this little project, here are a few:
  • I need to be a bit looser with my painting and not so perfect - my spots turned out a little too neat!
  • I feel I should have used a more warmer colour palette and the colours just don't look strong enough; and it's looking a little cool!
  • I really love the effect of the "all over" small marks, it took quite a while and a bit of patience; and I nearly ran out of the grey watercolour I had mixed up!
    note to self: mix more watercolour than needed!
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13 comments:

  1. june at noonJuly 18, 2011 at 1:50 PM

    I love it! I'm enjoying seeing your progress through the book, too.

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  2. KylieJuly 18, 2011 at 7:14 PM

    I really love this! My friend is an art teacher and she's told me before how this is the first project she gets students to do - making marks. What a gorgeous result :) Kx

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  3. DebJuly 18, 2011 at 10:35 PM

    Oh I like that!

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  4. yardage girlJuly 19, 2011 at 9:06 AM

    Gorgeous - love the spots and the idea.

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  5. JoJuly 19, 2011 at 9:23 AM

    It's lovely Lumina - would look great as a fabric print too ;-)

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  6. Pink RonnieJuly 20, 2011 at 1:39 PM

    Gorgeous Lamina! Just wondering - what are you doing with all your artwork?
    Ronnie xo

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  7. YanaJuly 20, 2011 at 8:51 PM

    you've done a great job with it :) lovely bright colours!

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  8. Christina LowryJuly 21, 2011 at 5:16 PM

    I think it looks fabulous! Great job. :)

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  9. AnonymousJuly 22, 2011 at 8:42 AM

    Thanks for stopping by my blog. I'm so glad I stopped by yours.

    I am about to get started in some watercolour paintings, and your experimentation looks fabulous.

    Will have to try to track down that book xoxo

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  10. Spin SpinJuly 24, 2011 at 12:29 AM

    Beautiful colours and looks lovely!

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  11. AnnaJuly 24, 2011 at 7:15 PM

    Aww! these are great! I really need to get this book. don't know whether I should try to do realistic watercolor painting first or try out abstracts like these... Really got to get some good sketch paper for watercolor exercises like these. Do you know a good one?

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  12. lamina @ do a bitJuly 25, 2011 at 9:28 AM

    Thank you everyone :) Love watercolour and this book!

    Halina - I have been using Canson - Montval, medium 300gsm, watercolour paper which is really good but apparently the best one is Arches Watercolour Paper - 100% cotton (more expensive... hope that helps :)

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  13. P R I M O E Z AJuly 28, 2011 at 6:23 PM

    i love this!!
    ps. and i've really been enjoying your pins, i think we have the same taste :)

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