My experience with Watercolour or how everything began

"Leon" by @stef1
 

Hello dear Steemians,

 

Recently while having our Visual Art contest in WOX, we see many different works, but it is noticeable that there are some users who put their efforts and time to gain the results and there are good for beginners.

We all know how much it depends on the feedback that they receive and of course, in our Challenge it is a luxury to get a feedback from Professional Artists. When chatting to @jorgevandeperre he also mentioned that as Profi the person has responsibility to give constructive feedback to be polite but the same time to tell what was weak and how to improve. He also showed his first watercolour paintings and I was pleased to see that his first works were not so perfect like his present work, that means he also started like many of us.

When I recall the time 5 years ago when I decided to try watercolour and of course my first works were horrible. Jorge was keen to see them and I am presenting them today.
 

My early watercolour works

 
This is my first watercolour ship, you know that I love sailing ships but aftert this one I was disappointed and was not sure if I should try it again.
 

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The format was too small and while usinghte waterolour I used to concentrated waterolour on we surface that is why it had no possiblity to spread but was looking like spots on paper, without possiblity to be smoothly mix wiht other colour. Also it was too much of colour, so that absolutely distracts the attention of view, sky is too overwhelming and the water looks too boring.

 

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The same here, horrible overwhelming sky, that is first that viewer can see, but then after that you can see how wrong the shape of the building, proportion of objects and finally horrible application of watercolour.

 

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After all I tried portrait, that again due to colour application I made it look dead, such grey colour like alien. No attention paid to highlights looks too flat. It makes me to stare at because there is something that does irritate me but I can not understand what.

Of course, I was not satisfied with all three. The old time there were some Professional Artists on Steemit. When I posted my post about my battle with watercolour I was please that one of them wrote me a comment.

Here I attach the comment from Professional Watercolour Artist who used to be active on Steemit Dunja Jung from Serbia @jungwatercolor She kindly left her comment under my post:

This is the Instagram of Dunja and her works:

 

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https://www.instagram.com/jungdunja/
 
If not that comment and encouragement of Dunja I do not think if I would continue my battle with Watercolour. But I am grateful her for this little attention and time that she spent leaving such comment. That motivated me and I started to do more and more works so now I am more comfortable with watercolour, still I am learning but I am enjoying that, so you can see my other works I have chosen the same topics:
 

 

My recent watercolour paintings

 

When I do portrait, I always think about Dunja because I like her style and find that it gives nice effect. Here is one painting that I prepared for Easter and posted couple of years ago:
 

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”Happy Sunday Easter 2020“ by @stef1
 

Here is one of my early successful painting with seascape and boats, I was really happy to reach the result. Now, when I look at them I noticed that the dark area of boats at the water surface is too dark, because normally hte reflection of boat should be darker then the objects themselves. But also I do not like that colour of bushes again too dark.

 

 

“Boats at haven” by @Stef1

 

That is why if you also love to do something like drawing or painting, then use the chance of having the opportunity to get the advise of our Professional Artists here on Steem. That will change your life and opens you new world of Art that you definitely will enjoy to discover.

 

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