Watercolor week4

Finally had time to paint with my watercolor today. yay! But before that let me tell you about the wanna be watercolor artists in the family(were curious enough to try it so i let them) :P

That's lil bro trying out my water color :P

and this is what he was trying to do :D

Ahahahah impatient much :P

Now it's my mom's turn...

That's what she did. Not bad mom! :P

The wannabe's got bored. So now it is finally The Ultimate Wannabe's turn....yehey!!!!!!!!!!

yay it's night already and im getting mosquito bites!

Let me show you first my model, isnt that leaf adorable? :P heart shape! We've got a lot of those in our house.wew.And if im a scientist i would certainly consider studying it as a medicine for the heart :D Well anyways,  I was thinking, i must learn something today. So i decide to point out what i want to achieve. First: To learn how to do something like a shade and shadow with the watercolor and second: To learn how to paint something glossy or smooth. Like that leaf picture above. The leaf has a lot of viens in it. So now i will lett the pictures talk..

I really dont have any idea what im doing right now. That sure looks ugly. It looks like a microscopic version of the leaf hahahaha. It is supposed to be detailed but not that way. The veins are so bold and big which are really not in real life. I was also trying to figure out how i can paint from dark green to green with a smooth transition on it..i found out one way to do it was to dip your brush to the water after painting from a dark color but you have to do it fast because it will dry up immediately. It was hard to do so. Time is of the essence when it comes to watercolor. And the water is uncontrollable. Not unlike if your using a lead pencil, i realized, because with lead pencil you can take your time and its all up to your hand pressure whether to make it light or dark and the transition is not that hard. And i wanted so bad to make it more glossy but i don't know what color to use for that. And i also have no idea what to do so i gave up. I will try it again next time because it's getting late now. So till next week then! :P