Jana Raninis

Arbres de bouleaux d'aquarelle - Technique de peinture négative

Hi Elsa, thank you so much for sharing your amazing paintings! I love them all, but my favorite is the one with blue and orange background, it has such a lovely illustration-like feeling to it, I will try that one myself :) maybe because there are no leaves, it looks more clean and I like it! Thank you for inspiration :)

Thank you.  That one was the last one I did, and I did pencil in leaves, but was so eager to try a different background I forgot to mask them!

haha, I love how some of the best results in art often come from "mistakes" :) btw could you share the brand of the paper you used, I like the texture (it is visible especially in the first one). Thanks!

The first is arches cold press.  the second two were arches hot press.  I'm trying to decide which I like better.  For just painting iike this, I tlike cold.  But I often do ink drawings with a light wash, and like the hot better for that, I think.

These were scrap pieces from cutting up a large sheet - the most economical way to get it

I use arches a lot, too... and similarly, for pure watercolor I  use cold press, and if I combine it  with other media like gouache, ink or colored pencils, I like the smooth surface of hot press better. And I know that many people complain about the smell of arches paper when wet, but I just LOVE that smell!

Gosh - I've never noticed that at all.  I'll have to pay attention to the smell!

Happy to chat with you and good luck with your teaching.

lovely chatting with you, too, and wish you all the best not only in art :)

<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/7d2f737c02bcd25416e5b36a4abfb3c1/128817f5.jpeg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/7d2f737c02bcd25416e5b36a4abfb3c1/128817f5.jpeg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/7d2f737c02bcd25416e5b36a4abfb3c1/128817f5.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Birches - image 1 - student project"><img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/7d2f737c02bcd25416e5b36a4abfb3c1/0cca3add.jpeg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/7d2f737c02bcd25416e5b36a4abfb3c1/0cca3add.jpeg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/7d2f737c02bcd25416e5b36a4abfb3c1/0cca3add.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Birches - image 2 - student project">You are right - these are very fun to make.  Thanks for showing me more uses for my small mop brush!  I'm going to make a few more
<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/7d2f737c02bcd25416e5b36a4abfb3c1/5737c57e.jpeg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/7d2f737c02bcd25416e5b36a4abfb3c1/5737c57e.jpeg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/7d2f737c02bcd25416e5b36a4abfb3c1/5737c57e.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Birches - image 3 - student project">

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