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Stonehenge Watercolor Paper & White Nights Watercolor Paint. 6.5in. x 5in.(Testing a paper sample )
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Works so well with the outdoors weather.. reminds me of better, chill times 
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What a cheeky lil wood
Giving it up for the coming autumn, just now
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Thank You Branka. I want to get some experience with watercolor.
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I love it. The previous one was watercolor as well if I'm
not mistaken?
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Yes I have done 3 so far.
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Thank You Jenni. I am trying out a new medium.
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Thank You Doodlebug. I take this as a huge compliment from you. You are so good at watercolor and acrylic. This was a small sample of Stonehenge paper.
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Great work! Cool to see you branching out with some new(?) mediums.
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Thanks Cam. It is a new medium for me. I know next to nothing about watercolor. This was done on a small sample of Stonehenge Paper. I wasn't planning to post this. I did because I wanted to try posting from my phone. I have always used my camera and laptop.
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I regarded watercolors as a paint for kids until seeing what you and some other artists on this site can do with them.
And I’m glad you posted it! Is posting from a phone different or is it pretty much the same? I’ve only ever posted from my computer...
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I used my phone to take the pic. Then cropped it with a app. I didn't make any adjustments to the picture. Went to the dA app and hit submit art. It was about the same. I was planning on cropping it in DA Muro but, I could figure out how to put it in stash. I'm a bit impatient when it comes to figuring out phone crapola.
Speaking of watercolor. I was looking at your artworks a few days ago. I was considering telling you if you invested in some cotton watercolor paper and some White Nights watercolors. You could do amazing things with your artworks. I currently only have small samples of paper that I ordered from Jerrys Artarama. I'm waiting on a larger block of Fabriano Artistico. The watercolors I bought off ebay. I have 24 pans. You can make 100's of colors with just this small set. These are consider professional paints. I think I paid around $40 total for them.
I know you didn't ask for all this info. Just something for you to think about.
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Even though I’m moving away from digital, I think cropping is one thing I could never get away from. I never know what to do at the edges of my drawings, so I just feel like cropping helps out there. I also don’t press very hard when I draw and my scanner brightens them up even more, so I do have to darken them usually. I’ve never used Muro... not even sure what it does, really.
Y’know, speaking of colors, I was considering trying some. I know it’s not paint, but when I was a kid I received a set of nice colored pencils as a birthday present... I remember really liking them and was considering giving them another go. I have a small set of some now, just haven’t gotten around to trying them. Maybe soon!
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I usually have to crop because there is stuff in the background. I prefer to present only the artwork.
My submissions look as close to the actual artwork as I can get it. I'm not much of a photographer so I use gimp to make my photos look like my actual drawing.
The reason I told you about watercolor is they of the transparency and layering that can be achieved. But color pencils can yield wonderful results as well. Color pencils are much easier to control. Best of all is that your already have some and you are interested in checking them out. When I try something new I check out YouTube vids. Great place to get practical info and pointers.
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Same here... I have found a new technique, though, I’ve been using lately to help with cropping and edges in general, which is drawing rectangle to work within. I did that with my 3 most recent drawings and I like the results. I think I get messier as I reach the edges of a page, because I tend to focus on a certain thing in the center of the page that I want to draw, not so much the background and surroundings. I’ll always end up finishing the main part and lose steam as I expand outward... but tracing out a specific area to work within seems to help me out quite a bit. I know that I have to fill this area and I keep going until I have. Granted, it works really well for me, but may not be for everyone.
I have to admit, I love seeing paintings, but I was never much on using paint myself. I tried it a few times and never got the hang of it. I remember being annoyed with how imprecise I was with a brush, haha. But yeah, the colored pencils I have used and I think they’ll be kinda fun to change up my art a bit!
I do the same with YouTube vids, haha... That’s actually one of the things that got me back into pencil drawing, as well as you and some other people on DA that have been putting out some badass pencil work lately! I started watching streamers and YouTubers and saw a load of vids on shading techniques and line work and it pulled me back in. Digital can be great, but it just doesn’t have that magic that traditional art does.
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I totally understand why your rectangle helps you to focus on the complete task at hand. I do well with a well defined goal too.
I also get why you get frustrated with painting. It has a steep learning curve and improvement is snail slow (in my case). I have an infinite amount of patience when I have decided to do something. I don't start things unless I'm willing to invest the time to get to a point that I will be pleased with or I'm so interested I have to try it.
Just the fact that you sound like the colored pencils have fired up your imagination is a excellent start.
I personally love artworks made with a physical medium. I like having my finished art in my hand so I can flap it around like I just finished the Mona Lisa. LOL
I never buy prints or digital art. I like traditional original art. It isn't always perfect but to me it is magic.
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I used to draw boxes on paper and fill them in when I was younger and then I stopped doing that, for some reason... I recently “discovered” it again and I’m loving it. Back when I played music, I wanted to design my own CD covers and I would trace out a sleeve booklet and draw various things inside it.
But yeah, I loved art class, of course, but I liked learning new techniques or when they just gave us a theme and told us to create something. Alternately, though, I hated when they told us we had to use watercolors or paints, which meant I was going to have to deal with a brush. I was always heavy-handed and a brush would just squish against the page and blotch it up, haha. I’ve learned to not press so hard over the years, but I still dislike the airy feel of a brush. I much prefer the tactile feedback of a pencil scraping on paper.
I have to say I don’t have a preferred medium. I bounce back and forth between pencil and digital, depending on my state of mind, but I value every finished image, whether digital or physical. I still get a huge sense of accomplishment from seeing something like “The Occult” on my computer screen, same as I would holding “Altered Symmetry” in my hands.
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I know you take a lot of pride in your art no matter the medium. That comes thru in your artwork and your comments.
A medium that you connect with and enjoy, I think, produces the best art. The medium shouldn't be cumbersome and distracting to the artist. Ideas can't flow if the medium is holding to much of your attention.
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Thank you very much for the compliments! Posting to DA and interacting with viewers and other artists has taught me to be less critical of myself and my artwork, no matter the medium. I agree, though, being comfortable with a style or medium is ideal. It’s good to try new stuff from time to time, but I can usually judge pretty well if I will or won’t enjoy something and if I don’t think I’ll enjoy it, I’ll simply move onto something else. I approach everything that way these days, from artwork to movies to music.
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