My first attempts at watercolour painting.

Throughout this part of my blog, im going to regularly upload new attempts at painting watercolour. My main aim with painting is to try and test myself and push myself outside of my 'comfort zone' to try and improve my art skills. It is very likely a lot of these attempts will turn out pretty messy and not how I wanted them to come out, but that is all part and parcel of the learning process.


My First Watercolour.

This is my first attempt with
watercolour paints,
its is a basic design of a traditional western style rose and a traditional style tudor rose. With the paintings all I have tried to do is learn techniques of how to hold the brush and how to shade with watercolour paints. With these simple roses I have applied the dark areas of colour first and then after applying water on my brush gently working from the edges of the dark area to apply a lighter shade and blend out from the darker shades to a lighter shade of colour. I try to hold the brush as close to the brush point as possible, as it allowsme to have greater control. Also by using the flat side of the brush rather than the tip of the brush I am able to blend the colour much more easily.


My Second Watercolour.


Right so here is ym second attempy at watercolour, this is another western traditional style painting. For this I was mainly inspired by the tattooist Eli Quinters who works at Smith Street Tattoo Parlour in New York City. He is one of my most influencial tattoo artists. I love absolutely everything about his work, ranging from the colours that he uses, the clean and sharp outlines he uses for his designs to the designs themselves. I know my painting doesnt really do his style justice, but I am learning so hopefully one day they will be closer to his standard. For this painting I have used primarily block colour rather than intricate shading to try and exaggerate the outline of the painting.