I’ve been struggling through the Watercolor Trip to Italy book, having only done four lessons in four months. On a whim, I checked to see if anyone on YouTube had put out some tutorials for the lessons in this book. Praise be to God – Sarah Newbury Art came through for me! It made all the difference watching someone else working on these, seeing the techniques she used and the thought process as she narrated her way through the lesson. I wish she had done all 16 lessons, but at least she did the first eight. I washed out my ceramic palette, set up my 12 colors in a different place and got ready to start Lesson 5, newly inspired.
Here’s how mine turned out (attempt #1 is on the left):
I’ve had a hard time getting the intensity of color the same as the original example. You’d think the second attempt would have improved, but I like the first one better.
I was so enthused about the process that I went right ahead and watched Lesson 6 and then worked on it:
The first attempt is on the top:
Once again, the colors aren’t quite as intense, but no matter – I feel like I’m finally starting to pick up speed on this. There are lots of things that I see room for improvement on (like the wall on the left around the window – awkward!) but on the whole, it’s starting to feel a little more intuitive to me. Maybe by the time I get to Lesson 9, I’ll have more confidence and won’t feel so abandoned by my new tutor, Sarah Newbury.
In other watercolor news, I’ve been working on some simple watercolor illustrations for the Freddy story. I don’t feel ready for prime time yet.
Good old Freddy!
I’ll probably wash out this blog post palette in the morning.
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