9.16 Hooray! Improvement! :D

On Friday of last week, we had two 9 x 12  watercolors and one 12x18 watercolor and 3 blown up ink drawings (about 11 x 8) of illustrations that we had already done.

I feel amazing about the watercolors I did, especially the fish and the face.  I know that I overworked the face, unfortunately.  It looked so so so much better before I tried to make the eyes a little darker with some more brown.  They lost a lot of that vibrant orange color.  Still, I've realized that when doing things from reference, I am a whole lot more patient if I know where I'm going to be painting.  Sketching under the painting is my new secret weapon.

For now, I am using old 90 lb drawing paper from last year as watercolor paper.  It works well enough and much better than anything else I currently have at the moment.  However, I have recently acquired a few bucks now thanks to my awesome parents and hopefully may be able to find some watercolor paper at the bookstore or some art store in town.  I've heard that watercolor paper is scarce all around though since people have been needing to buy so much.  I'll keep my fingers crossed, though.

Also, I am including two of the four paintings that I did in class for the day, based on references from photos of course.  I'm really liking red / orange watercolors.....wonder why...