• Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
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    1 year ago

    Nice!

    Mind sharing your techniques/tools/paper/etc/etc!?

    I see (quite) dry watercolour (that’s what I like doing the most so maybe I’m just dreaming) and some white paint, I guess like Titan white as it’s quite opaque!

    Cheers

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      1 year ago

      Thank you. I’m very glad you like the painting , but honestly it’s just me trying to paint something without exactly knowing how to. It’s a 200gsm water color paper, and literally the cheapest box of 15 watercolor cakes I could find. I used a brush pen that holds water (which might explain how dry the colors are). I like dry watercolor too, as it makes the colors pop more.

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        1 year ago

        Well that’s how you do it, check out stuff and find what you like.

        Started out roughly the same like 2-3 years ago :-)

        I also like to have the possibility to have “popping” colors and I found Pebeo water colors “encre aquarelle” (literally watercolor ink), you’d just need the 3 base ones (cyan, magenta, yellow) to make any colour except grey, so a grey is good too :-)

        And they sure pop!

        So what’s the white :-) ?

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          That’s very interesting, just 3 colors and make any color from those. I’ll check them out, thanks. The white is from the same box. It actually ended up pretty transparent, which is why I couldn’t even show much foam. The opaque white parts you see are just the paper where there are no colors lol.

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            1 year ago

            Hah yeah water color paper “eats up” the white color, I’m looking into more heavy color (IDK, different guaches maybe) to make better white.

            I love mixing colors, and if you don’t try for brown, (or a dirty look/feel) you just use two of them, so it’s quite easy too!

            Add water to make it lighter, let dry and paint on top (dry on dry) to make darker.

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                1 year ago

                Ah yeah I have tried several of those, seems they work okayish at start but then they clog or just stop working or suddenly blurb out a lot of white :-). I’m probably using these wrongly. Any tips?

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                  1 year ago

                  I’ve used mine very sparingly, like adding reflective highlights to eyes. I guess they’re just not good for covering a lot of area.

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                    1 year ago

                    That’s my idea too, and fixing small mistakes… :-)

                    I’m trying guache like Titan (and China?) White but it gets heavily absorbed by the paper, I’m looking into acrylic paint too, and I’ll retry my gel pens :-) , we’ll see how it goes!

                    Do you have an example with your gel pen? Would love to see!