Just a tad of Experimenting

I went through a short-lived phase of having a fascination of painting and drawing animals. It’s funny really, I gave up on the proportions of dogs, cat and exceedingly failed at drawing horses. I was able, however, to be successful in some of my works which include Koi fish and an owl.

Without bothering to sketch it out first, I tried to make a simple base color for the pictures and started working from there. These particular paintings were done on May this year, soon after my mom’s birthday. For one of the Koi fish, I used a reference picture from the internet and one reference picture from a nature book for the painting of the owl. The other Koi was of original positioning. Since there were times that the original watercolor painting didn’t look as good as I thought it would be, I somehow cheated by outlining the painting with a tech pen, which wasn’t the original plan. Only one of these paintings turned out to be exactly the way I planned (that one being the one that I didn’t outline).

These are all close-ups of the paintings.

This is the one that I just thought of. The base painting of this hadn’t turned out so well to I decided to go with a different direction. This is the latest one of the three.

This is the first one I did of the three. I did this a day after my mom’s birthday, and the only one that turned out the way I wanted. I didn’t outline this with anything except for darker colors of watercolor paint.

This is my first and only attempt to paint an owl. All the other birds that I tried to paint failed epically, so I decided to stick with this. I only tried to paint an owl because Dana (I mentioned her before) was able to do a fantastic painting of one when we were in grade 7 and I just wanted to see if I could compare to her. Turns out, I can’t T_T But here it is anyway.

I still have to figure out how to draw feathers, one of the biggest challenges that I have ever faced in drawing animals, aside from the musculature of the rest.

That’s all I guess.

Ciao

Materials I used:

1. Aquarelle Watercolor
2. The brush, Teacher Jeanne gave me
   
3. 0.3 tech pen
4. Royal & Langnickel essentials Watercolor Artist Pad

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Tags: art, attempts, drawings, ink, paintings, watercolor