It continues. I have some metallic acrylic paint too so had an experiment with that.
I love the boldness of the colours, but still need to get the hang of stars. Splattering paint looks easy but…
I thought this one was a right off, until I added the metallic overlay and attempted my first palm tree. I was really chuffed with it in the end. It seems to be the pieces I think I have ruined, I then relax and don’t worry about ruining it! I need to be more confident it will turn out ok.
(c) K Wicks
Continuing with watercolours I redid the cactus and night sky ones, choosing to do different colour combinations to see what works best.
And as I like a bit of sparkle, got a bit distracted by the metallic paints 😁 I’m not sure which one is my favourite because I love them all.
Now I’m back on the acrylics to see what I can do with these effects in different paints.
Slowly getting there and finding styles I like. I picked two tutorials, cactus sunrise and a northern lights sky. Pleased with both but instantly wanted to do the northern lights one again and have been this last weekend. Second attempt was much better! but will be on the next post. Turns out my next cactus one was pretty good too, but it all has to start somewhere.
I also wanted to see if I could recreate one of my own sunset photographs. The one I chose I have as a set of coasters so could put it in front of me to paint. Not quite exact, but I’m happy with the results.
(c) K Wicks
I am thoroughly enjoying painting now and kind of wish I had found it years ago, feeling as if I have missed 20 years of something great. But I am making up for it with all evenings and weekends now taken up with painting. There is a lot more to it than I realised.
I keep switching between finding tutorials on YouTube and trying to use my own imagination. Above is imagination and below is tutorial.
At first I also switched between watercolours one weekend and acrylics the next (below). Liking both, but have settled on watercolours for now.
(c) K Wicks
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