Shades of Red

This time I tried to get various shades of red by adding wee bits of black to vermillion. In some spots you can see the pure vermillion - other spots are almost black, and some other spots have a reddish brown colour. In three spots you can see what happens if the brush is loaded with more water. It was so much fun to play with paints and water!

 

Liquid watercolours: shades of blue

I set myself the challenge to use only one colour - in this case it is called "Night" and get several shades of this colour by adding white to it. The liquid watercolours I am using are called "Colorex" and are made by the French company "Pebeo". 

I know of course that true watercolour artists are not using White - they are thinning down the paint in order to lighten it. However I do not consider myself a watercolourist, just someone who likes to play with mediums. For contrast I used some orange-yellowish alcoholbased markers. 

I left the background white and saved the scanned file as a png - thus having the possibility to delete the background and add one in a colour I might think fitting. 

 

Markers and Underpainting

Alcoholbased markers are not opaque. So you can get nice shades and even several hues by underpainting, using complementary colours or greys. 

 

Castle on the Rocks

Germany is a country full of old castles, most of them in ruins, and most of them standing on some high rocks. Imagine how difficult it was to get all the bricks and stones up on the hill! 

The photo belongs to my collection of diaslides which slowly is transforming into a collection of digital files.

 

Harbour with light effect

  I use Gimp for image editing. Gimp is the open source alternative to photoshop, and - like photoshop - has got lots of filters. One group of filters are light effect filters. So far I haven't used them, but I did it with this particular photo because I thought it could do with a bit of additional something...

Deer

This is another photo out of the series of dia slides which I am in the process of digitalizing.

It was taken a long time ago by my husband. 

 

Fantasy flower

With this illustration I definitely left my comfort zone - abstract painting. It took a lot longer to finish the piece, but I intend to continue using my alcoholbased markers for similar illustrations.