Hello everyone! I wanted to share and ask your opinion about my work on rocks. This is my first time painting them, so any advice on how I can improve is very welcome! 😊 I dyed the paper with black tea and burnished it, and I am using watercolours. Thank you!!
Brilliant Cecilia and thank you for sharing!
I think you've done a very good job with the blending of the colours at the top of the rocks, eg the bright pink rock which has a lilac outer edge - the fact that you made the outer edge blend into the rock at this stage means that the rendering will go easier and be slightly less to do. To do this blend at the colour fill stage as you have involves a bit more skill so I don't always teach it (instead teaching a flat colour fill) but you've managed to do it really well, well done!
I like your paint pots, they remind me of contact lens cases!
Thank you Vaishali!! I'm really glad to know that's fine, and even more if it will make rendering easier :) I'll post some pictures of the rendering results too, I have started and yes, I can see it's going to take a long time! I love it as well, I lost track of time yesterday and did tiny dots/strokes for hours :D Thank you for your encouragements!! Hihi yes that's so true, I had the same cases for my contact lenses before too, I didn't think about that before!!
Salut, Cécilia ! This is a very delayed response, but I want to send my appreciation for posting your rock pics; they helped me understand something that I've admired in my miniature painting books but haven't quite grasped. And now, thanks to your pics, I do! To be more specific, I had never quite grokked that I could do a top outline of a different color at the color fill stage the way that you did above. It shall be inspiring and instructive for my future pieces! I would love to see how these rocks have progressed, by the way! Please post if you're willing! Merci encore !
Bonjour Nadia!! Thank you so much for your lovely message, it's so nice to share and exchange our experiences!! 😃I'm so pleased my images helped you! I did this completely following my intuition, I wasn't sure it would work, but I find this quite helpful when doing the rendering 🌹 I can't wait to see your work too!! I have done only a bit more on the painting, but here's the update ; I need many more hours before I can call it done!! Slowly but surely! 😉 I send all the best, I hope to see your paintings soon and share again in the future! A bientôt! 🌷
This is looking like a dream - a very good one at that! Bravo, and keep rendering!! I can't wait to see the final result. :)
@Nadia Bouhdili Thank you so much Nadia!! :-D I'll keep you posted, slowly but surely!! 🌷
A bit of rendering in progress!!
Your rendering is coming along nicely, well done! It flows - I particularly love the Little Rock island! Yes please do post more!