This is my very first time with watercolours. I'm also a beginner in art in general... making those gradients was absolutely mesmerising... I can't wait to keep moving on with the rest of the class but I'm waiting for my brushes to arrive in the post because my kid's old battered down paint brushes won't cut it hahaha

I decided to do the transparencies for all the colours on my palette to really get a feel for all the colours I have... some are professional grade and are super concentrated so it was difficult to get a gentle variation.

Learning watercolours - image 1 - student project

As I said before those gradients were mesmerising ! And now I'm wondering how am I going to feel with the jelly fish or the galaxy if a simple gradient was that mesmerising...

Learning watercolours - image 3 - student project

Finally received some paint brushes !!! So here are my pulse and precision exercises. Once again so much fun!!

Learning watercolours - image 4 - student project

Learning watercolours - image 5 - student project

Monochrome activity..

Learning watercolours - image 6 - student project

I loved doing the Jelly fish activity. That was a good exercise to start mingling with colours before starting on the galaxy

Learning watercolours - image 7 - student project

And finally... the galaxy !!! Now that was super fun and it revealed the beauty and magic of water colours... I've made 3 so far.. I thought for the first one that my blobs where a bit too big and the colours too light. So for the second one I over saturated the colours (a bit too much, I knocked out a lot of paint from my pans) and for the last one I went crazy with the water.. to the point I had big puddles everywhere but it gave that wet on wet effect which is nice. The biggest issue I have is with my white acrylic.. I'm struggling to get the right amount of water in it so I can add details that are visible but not so thick that they just make blobs. I ended up using a white gel pen on the third painting. Finally I didn't use any salt in the 2nd and 3rd galaxies because I find that my salt makes those huge marks.. maybe it's because it's sea salt instead of plain table salt ? or maybe my paints ?

Learning watercolours - image 8 - student project

Johanna Roques

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