Here we are again with 5 more paintings! The idea is to simply practice, not try for perfection (OCD I’m looking at you!). Like most of my other paintings, these are just small objects from around my room. I’m using Staedtler watercolour pencils and a fine tip Sharpie.
21. A small glass jar.
22. An old green leather book
23. A small felted pumpkin I made.
24. Scissors
25. A tealight candle. I think this is the hardest to make look right, because of the shades of white. I know how I’d try it with regular watercolours, but pencils I’m not sure. I did try adding some depth on the white part, but it doesn’t really show.
1/4 of the way through! (p.s. Actually 1/5; my math isn’t mathing.)
16. A pencil sharpener. I had the notion to try an underpainting of orange just to see what would happen. It gave me the shade of blue I wanted, but I regret putting it on the entire thing. I also overworked it a bit and wished I had left the table just white.
17. An amazon sword plant from my aquarium, I’m quite happy with this one! I let each leaf dry before wetting the next. I painted the shadows in purple.
18. This is my favorite one; a little mushroom stuffy I love.
19. After 16 I ran out of paper and the hobby merry-go-round rotated to cross stitching. Cutting paper isn’t the funnest thing. I kept wanting to paint, but not cut-up the paper. This one’s just a shell. I messed up and drew some of the pen lines in the wrong place. I randomly wanted to see what a blue background would look like.
20. Haha! Not my best work… but I didn’t say I was making 100 great tiny paintings! It’s supposed to be a Calathea leaf.
I’m trying to make 100 tiny painting this year. Mine are 2×3 inches on watercolour paper. I’m using Staedtler watercolour pencils, and a fine tip sharpie pen. I tend to make art sporadically and can be a perfectionist, especially when it comes to drawing lines. Which is why I like making digital line art; I can zoom in and literally make sure each pixel is where I want it.
With these paintings, I’m trying to go with the flow and not get too stuck up on the drawing aspect (I’ve frequently ruined paper by drawing and erasing too much).
1. This first one below is a leaf from my Pteris cretica fern. The leaves are a little crispy from the low winter humidity. I drew a pencil outline, painted it, then inked the lines once dry.
2. A leaf from my rabbit’s foot fern.
3. Some leaves and flowers from a vine of my Tradescantia sanna plant.
4. Philodendron brasil plant.
5. A field of clover and alfalfa. This is the only one I didn’t draw in pencil first, I just started with the watercolour pencils then tried to define with the pen.
Number 1 is definitely my favorite. I think I should have worked more on the colours for number 4; the variegation on the leaves isn’t quite showing and I don’t like what I did the pen. Overall I think I need to put down a bit more of the pencils before wetting it.
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