Hi!

I really enjoyed this class, I am very glad that ou decided to produce it, Ana!

It sparked so many variations ideas that I can't wait to try out :)

 

Since I am studying color theory at this period, I decided to take the liberty to experiment with colors instead to stick to only greens.

 

Here's the spread from my watercolor sketchbook:

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So, as I said, I wanted to experiment with colors. I decide to pick a triad from my palette to use as base colors, and to mix them in order to obtain further three colors, these muted and less bright.

 

For the first piece I chose a slightly blue green, light violet and orange as my base colors.

I love how it came out! I find that the muted colors really help the piece come together.

 

I decide to try another triad as well, this time with the yellowest green I had available, the closest-to-violet blue, and an orange red. This triad was more difficult for me to pick because I didn't really like how the base colors looked together, but I decided to challenge myself and to 'take it as an experiment'.

While I was again very pleased with the result regarding the illustration, this second time I was really unsatisfied with my lettering, it came out really bad. I realized that that sentence needed a bit too much planning than I was willing to do! I thought of a way to remedy... so I pasted a dark piece of paper (I tried to find a color that was similar to one in my palette) and wrote only 'thank you' to make my life easier. I used some coliro golden watercolor for that. I also continued the drawing of some leaves inside on the dark paper to give more cohesion to the piece.

 

Thank you again for this class!

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Some more experiments with my color palette and composition :)

 

Monochrome with tints obtained by adding white gouache

 

Analogous colors 

 

Only muted colors

 

Two different colors not mixed together and tints obtained by adding water