Cat Coquillette

Modern Watercolor Techniques: Explore Skills to Create On-Trend Paintings

I love love this flower stunning and simple but very effective

Verónica, lovely bird painting! It looks so airy! The textures in the branches are amazing &lt;3 which colors have you used?

Hi Nina!!! thank you for your feedback, I really appreciate it. the colors I used are (Daniel S.) deep Sap green, bloodstone genuine and a little bit of indigo. I actually played with those 3 colors and that was the result :). it was so much fun!!! I wasn't looking to be realistic as the bird is more abstract :)

I used the same colors for the rose, just more of the green than the bloodstone genuine and no indigo :)

You are welcome, Verónica! Thank you! Great textures from mixing these colors, I assume that it´s Bloodstone Genuine which adds the magic and texture :) I haven´t tried this color, now I feel quite curious ;D. On the website of DS it is indicated that it combines beautifully with Rhodonite Genuine and Quin. Burnt Orange

other color I really love is Green Apatite Genuine and Moon glow &lt;3 
I purchase colors as I purchase shoes!!! I'm a mess :D

Verónica, totally understand you! The hardest thing with watercolors is to stop buying paper, sketchbooks and paints :D! My favorite one is Piemotite Genuine, it´s so beautiful when you use it on its own and adds some magic in color mixes)

Now I need that color in my life. Same here with sketch books and papers, LOL. I'm new in watercolor but is so much fun and I love the textures you get!!

These are such beautiful paintings, Verónica! You have such a delicate &amp; painterly style– love how that translates into watercolor. Also, the bark on that branch is so realistic! I'm trying to figure out how you did that so I can try it out, too. : )Thank you for sharing!Best, Cat

Thank you Cat!!! Your words and any feedback worth a lot to me. I'm pretty new in watercolor and as I said in the discussion, I'm and accountant person, I'm trying to explore my "artistic" side :).  The branch, I mixed a few colors between brown and green from 2 different brands. Not sure if it is ok to mention brands here... the colors name are deep SAP green and bloodstone genuine and a little bit of indigo. I wasn't expecting that result but then I was like..." this looks cool" thing. I did use the white space technic there so that's the ending result.  Not sure if it is ok to mix realistic with that bird tail that look more "abstract?" But I really have so much fun, your class was so inspiring and I learned a lot!!! Thank you so much!! I'm a traveler myself and I wish I could do what you do about living in different countries and getting inspired in the meantime!! Cat, you are awesome!!!

I really enjoyed this class, I'm still working on a few more exercises. So more to come..&nbsp;
Here I added some rose gold on photoshop:
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<img style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;" src="https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=1000,format=auto/uploads/project/cd87b188c16b0ed2b0b2354eb5b18c5e/d6e5fdaa.jpg" alt="My first watercolor project - image 1 - student project" srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=600,format=auto/uploads/project/cd87b188c16b0ed2b0b2354eb5b18c5e/d6e5fdaa.jpg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=1000,format=auto/uploads/project/cd87b188c16b0ed2b0b2354eb5b18c5e/d6e5fdaa.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" loading="lazy"> 
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&nbsp;a little bird... &nbsp;:)
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<img style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;" src="https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=1000,format=auto/uploads/project/cd87b188c16b0ed2b0b2354eb5b18c5e/5b7c10f8.jpg" alt="My first watercolor project - image 2 - student project" srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=600,format=auto/uploads/project/cd87b188c16b0ed2b0b2354eb5b18c5e/5b7c10f8.jpg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=1000,format=auto/uploads/project/cd87b188c16b0ed2b0b2354eb5b18c5e/5b7c10f8.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" loading="lazy">
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A rose ...
<img style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;" src="https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=1000,format=auto/uploads/project/cd87b188c16b0ed2b0b2354eb5b18c5e/b467f6c9.jpg" alt="My first watercolor project - image 3 - student project" srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=600,format=auto/uploads/project/cd87b188c16b0ed2b0b2354eb5b18c5e/b467f6c9.jpg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=1000,format=auto/uploads/project/cd87b188c16b0ed2b0b2354eb5b18c5e/b467f6c9.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" loading="lazy">
playing with colors...&nbsp;
<img style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;" src="https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=1000,format=auto/uploads/project/cd87b188c16b0ed2b0b2354eb5b18c5e/9a7bc0f8.jpg" alt="My first watercolor project - image 4 - student project" srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=600,format=auto/uploads/project/cd87b188c16b0ed2b0b2354eb5b18c5e/9a7bc0f8.jpg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,width=1000,format=auto/uploads/project/cd87b188c16b0ed2b0b2354eb5b18c5e/9a7bc0f8.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" loading="lazy">

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