Days 21 and 22: Teacups wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry

I am quite surprised that I did all the assignments! Sometimes they seemed too hard for me, but I gave them all a try!

Thank you, Robert, for this wonderful workout! I learned so much! And thanks to everyone who participated in this workout! You were all so inspiring to me!

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Day 20: Lipsticks and perfume

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Day 19: Three scoops, please!

Mostly vanilla, chocolate and raspberries! I turned one painting into a card to send to my granddaughter! She loves my homemade icecream!

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Day 18: Slotted spoons and pots

I try to fit a little watercolor practice in my days! It feels so good if I manage to leave my doubts behind and just dive in!

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Day 17: Random landscape painting

This is as good as I could get with this project! It was my first try, but the following ones got only worse, so I stopped there!

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Day 16 Exploit drawing

I dread architecture and started very reluctantly! I applied lots of color on the buildings, but they look a bit dull! They don't sing like the ones in the demo! :) Then I put on some music and relaxed a bit! I had to ad a car with the negative painting techniques as I liked that part of the demo a lot (and 2 dogs of course!) :) Sorry, I cut the legs off while taking the picture, will take another one tomorrow!

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Day 15: bananas and melons

I liked this project a lot, though it was more challenging I thought it would be! Timing and the right consistency of colors is still difficult... and I am not always a patient person! :) I ran out of colors and had to go and buy some more! I even bought a melon, though it is not the season here! It was very pale inside and I tried to render it in the top painting!

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Days 13 and 14 More drawing with brush and blending drawing with painting

I almost forgot what this class is about: No pressure, carefree and making discoveries! I mostly do my best drawings immediately after watching the videos as Robert's enthusiasm and giggles are contagious! Reminder to myself: Take the basic drawing class after finishing this workout! :)

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Day 13: Drawing with the brush

Some quick wonky drawings with my sword brush!

Mostly I feel attracted to people and animals! Cityscapes (and perspective) are not yet my friend! I enjoyed drawing the cars though they are not quite roadworthy! :)

I was so absorbed with the strokes my brush (I am not used to) made and getting everything down as correctly as possible that I forgot to load enough paint on my brush and my page turned out a bit pale!

Nontheless I enjoyed this practice and hope to do many more brush drawings in the future!

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So good that we have the week-end to catch up with our projects!

I wish I had a better drawing and painting background, but I got really excited about painting these barns and tried to do my best to get some of the essence taught in these lessons down on paper!

Golden Hour Barn

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Barns continued

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Days 10 and 11: chairs continued

I watch and rewatch the videos in fascination and then I try to mimik what I saw! That's all I can do for now! Knowing that I have to refine my drawing, color mixing, brush strokes... well everything first! Sometimes I use my pigments too sparingly, then I don't get those dark values. But I start to treat my paper and colors less preciously! After all my children will throw away all my stuff one day! So better I use it up! But be prepared: The next 100(0) paintings won't look as good as the examples in the demonstrations! :)

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Days 8 and 9: Chairs

I have a very neat and a very messy side, both show in these chairs! Timing and the amount of water are often challenging for me! I like the idea of working directly with the brush, it is a bit scary and exciting at the same time...

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Day 7: Landscapes

I have a heavy hand with the brush, and so far I don't really master anything! These basic studies were already difficult for me and I am not sure what I'll be able to produce next week; but I want to give it a try! :) Capturing the essence of s.th with a few brushstrokes looks so desirable to me!

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Day 6: Easy mountain project

So much fun to watch our teacher do his landscape studies! I watched the video a few times, and here are my first results! :)

I think that the first mountain range looks more pleasing than the second one which is too even and regular, the second sky looks a bit better than the first one, and as for the foreground I must say that I don't really master my brush strokes, I intended to bring more variety to the thickness of my lines! If i find time I'll come back to this exercise a bit later!

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Day 5: Random painting

I just tried to loosen up a bit and worked on practice paper as it feels less precious! I like a few spots in the first large painting and the 2 small ones from the second page where I managed to paint a larger value range, but all in all they look really random! :)

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Day 5: Value and color challenge

This was a very interesting exercise! I have been a quilter for some decades and know the problem from having to match my fabrics.

First try at matching colors to the corresponding values

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More attempts on Fabriano paper. That's all I managed to to today! I'll have to leave it for now! Tomorrow will be another day! :)

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Abstract blobs! I enjoyed watching the color run from swatch to swatch! But viewing the photo here I think some good darks are missing!

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Water and hues and from one hue to another:

Achieving a regular gradation from opaque to transparent is not an easy job!

Mixing colors is a very pleasant occupation and I have a watercolor sketchbook dedicated to colors and their mixes.

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Watercolour workout - image 47 - student project I did this exercise twice: First on Hahnemühle moulin du coq paper which I thought was a good cellulose practice paper! Then on Fabriano Artistico cold pressed paper and the experience was so much more enjoyable!

I had some blooms with the water gravity fusion exercise! Used lots of water and maybe not enough pigment (I haven't used my watercolors lately and they are very dry) then set my paper aside for a while (might have soaked up some of the excess water?)

I really enjoyed doing these basic exercises, especially the transparency one!

I am a late starter and an eternal beginner ( the same thing applies to my drawing abilities too):)

Suzanne Ourth

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