Trampled by Geese
Trampled by Geese is a reminder to myself to look at the positive side of life and to endeavour to only write about things that inspire me rather than focus on what is negative in the world. Kirkegaard once wrote, “Being trampled by geese is a slow way of dying, but being eaten to death by envy and greed is even slower and more painful”.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Monday, October 14, 2024
More lofi girl watercolours just in time for winter
A couple more lofi girl studies from the video I posted last time.
This first one is in Gansai Tambi paints and playing with backruns in the background.
This one is in my new favourite limited colour palette. More on that soon.
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Lofi Girl goes Zorn
Still playing with the Zorn limited colour palette, I wondered if I could paint something from this lofi girl video.
The colours worked, but the painting style is harder than I expected. I am not used to doing large areas of flat colour. It doesn't help that I'm still using that faulty paper, it shows up a lot in the skin and dark. But still, not bad.
Thursday, October 10, 2024
beam handmade paints and zorn
Tuesday, October 08, 2024
Zorn and japanese watercolour samuri
The white is more opaque and powerful than regular watercolour white and I love how it interacts with the skin tone. So too is the black and when mixed with the red it makes some lovely browns.
Bonus points if you know what movie this is from. I wasn't brave enough to do his eyebrows big enough.
Sunday, October 06, 2024
A wizard and zorn watercolours
In many ways, I adore how this turned out. The granulation. The way the white pushes back his hat and cloak while the transparent watercolours in the staff make it almost glow.
What I didn't know, and is hard to see in this photo, is the paper had gone off. The sizing (the layer that protects the paper from the water) had decayed due to poor storage prior to the book shipping to me. You can see it most near the top of the staff where there's a white patch that didn't take the background colour and some places where it absorbed too much.
I ended up contacting the manufacturer and got a refund for the books (yes, I bought two). I'm still going to use these, but alas, not for the nice record keeping I was hoping for. This is going to be another practice journal.