• Squeak@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I like how simple it is and how it can be a few different things.

    Beach and the sea Cookie on a blue counter top Sand dune in front of the sky

    • nieceandtowsOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I love how even simple works of art can evoke thoughts and emotions and imagination in the viewer. In a sense, the viewer needs to be more creative than the creator for a piece of art to succeed.

  • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.comEnglish
    2·
    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

    • nieceandtowsOPEnglish
      2·
      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.

      • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.comEnglish
        3·
        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 :-) ?

        • nieceandtowsOPEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.comEnglish
            3·
            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.