My tonal paintings

So after making some disasters in my colored paintings, I have come back to learn some washes and make tonal paintings.

Below are a few of my tonal scapes.

I will be posting more of these and hopefully they will each be better then their predecessor.

They are not in the order of when they were painted. Rather a jumbled order here actually.

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Watercolor trials

The above one finished with stunted trees. Not that great attempt and could have been better!!
This one I learned from a you tube video but I did not do it while the video was playing so a lot of it is my imagination. Plus the video was not very clear so there was no color distinction
This is yet in complete and am doing it from a tutorial by kathy johnson. But if you see the real picture it has clearer colors. Also the tutorial picture is amazing!!!
this is no where near to it but in itself it is a good try. I learnt something about slowly building up I usually stumble in mid tones!!!
more paintings !!!
what have i been doing all these days when not posting!!!
the answer is here. Well again these are trials so please forgive stunted trees in one on the paintings.

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Trials with watercolors

Watercolors:

I like transparent elusive quality that the technique lends to the subject esp the greens (when we actually succeed in capturing and rendering the right tree/grass/ foliage colors).

I always try to imitate a lot of paintings and techniques and am still in the phase of figuring out the right mix which works for me. It seems simple at times and proves much more than I could handle and vice versa. I still have to learn to render my own observations in a palette that complements it so that is why I am learning to paint via the most commonly known way-- try to paint and catch your mistakes.



I have learnt that when I imitate any painting, it is only half as good as the original(owing to my present talent pool in this particular technique). I think that is the reason why I try to find extremely good pictures to copy from so that I am atleast near to something that I would eventually like to see. Just like the quote" aim at the stars .. even if you fall you will be a lot higher from where you began.."

But all in all, I can see a visible improvement from when I actually began this journey of exploring watercolors.

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