This final project truly inspired me! Thank you GloriAnn for this beautiful class.

It was great to practice wet-into-wet and brush control. Also, I had a lot of fun exploring the possibilities of using the gold accent color. For my project I tried to incorporate it more into the blue watercolor to create a delicate shimmering effect here and there.

For the drawing I looked for reference pictures and draw a mix of them. It was the most difficult part of the project for me, to draw the right shape freehand.

I enjoyed a lot the whole process of creating those illustrations and I'll definitely continue to explore those techniques in the future!

 

Below are some process photos.

 

Sketch on watercolor paper canson Aquarelle XL 300gsm

I tried to use only one layer for the majority of the painting, so I added dimension and color wet-into-wet.

Final Painting - Marine Life I

 

Here is the sketch for my second illustration, part of the Marine Life series

Detail of gold watercolor

 

Final Painting - Marine Life II

Thank you so much for checking up my project.
Happy painting everyone! :)