Practicing negative painting inspired by the scales of Ashley's class with the bookmark exercise.

Paper: St. Cuthberts Mill Saunders Waterford series

Water Color: Winsor and Newton

Brushes: Round 10 and Round 6

Here is a close up shot of the scales and gradients on the tail of the larger fish. I was pretty happy with the gradients of the tail. The value change sort of got dramatic with the scales though, hehe. 

Overall, this was a great exercise and I learned a lot from Ashey's class. Definitely 100% recommend watching all of the videos in this class. Every exercise was informative and well explained.