Another Day in the Studio:

Here's another practice. I tried for a better drawing, but trying for acurate drawings makes me get to tight. I love the loose qualities of watercolor, so I keep starting over. Any advice is appreciated. Ran out of watercolor paper. I tried watercolor on tracing paper. Interesting that the hard surface allowed for lifting off the color. I'll post that one too, below.

Procreate Version:

Contrast Studies - Another Day in the Studio - image 1 - student project This is the watercolor before procreate:

Contrast Studies - Another Day in the Studio - image 3 - student project

Painting on tracing paper. I think the contrast is better here. But it gets pretty wrinkled and warped.

Contrast Studies - Another Day in the Studio - image 4 - student project

First Day:

I didn't find the rusted decay brush, searched on line and found some brushes but please tell me where to look. I think it may blend with the actual watercolor better.

Contrast Studies - Another Day in the Studio - image 5 - student project

Contrast Studies - Another Day in the Studio - image 6 - student project

Wow, this is hard!

Contrast Studies - Another Day in the Studio - image 7 - student project

Contrast Studies - Another Day in the Studio - image 8 - student project

Contrast Studies - Another Day in the Studio - image 9 - student project

Really enjoyed this class, I did a lot of practice over several days on all the exercises. It was really hard to get the value scale. This has really fired up my inspiration to do more crossover work (analog to digital).

Got carried away in Procreate. Used more tools, like duplicating layers and multiplying for darker tones. And masking out some of the layers with masks. Also, adjusted the scale of some objects to improve the composition. However, after looking at everyone else's work I see I could to arrange some overlapping to improve composition. I so enjoyed the loose marks of watercolor. Not my usual medium at all. So I'm excited to keep going and see where this can go.

Next I'll try some arrangements with overlapping objects to create space and depth which is where the contrast will really play an important part.

After the still life exercise with vases I focused on the organic shapes of shells only. I went too far with procreate, then tried again for just a tiny bit of edits. Any comments about when to quit working? I don't want the procreate brushes to look out of place... or maybe it would be fun to really exaggerate the digital side of it. This project has really opened up a new way of working.

Contrast Studies - Another Day in the Studio - image 10 - student project

Anne Delpine

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