my first water colour and at last ive finished my orangutan

I go to art classes and its amazing the wealth of talent there, I'm nowere near as good as you I think your oranutan is wonderful butwatercolour is different, you've used it in such a vibrant way, often its ligher,more transparent and delicate, i'm doing a collage of butterfly wings at the moment--- partly with a fine black pen and a 00 brush!-- the trouble with watercolur ( and there are many!) is that its almost impossible to correct mistakes-- its difficult to cover them up without it going 'muddy' and --almost-- impossible to remove. but you are using them in a wonderfully dramatic way so I suggest you keep going back to them or using them in mixed media bests wishes PG

NP you've started at the top with the most difficult subjects. You've clearly got talent so stick with it. You've done a brilliant job of the Orangutan, those eyes. I like the photo of the five dogs.

thank you so much so maybe a different paint rather than water colour then pamq.i realy apreciate your opinion and you heron.

maybe acrylic as you can water it down to tranparent but also put on thick and even add 'texture paste' it dries quickly - not like oil-but sometimes too quickly so you can add a clear gel to slow the drying--- see I can' talk the talk' but find it much harder to ' walk the walk', I enjoy experimenting with different medium, some at my class do wonderful things using a combination of medium such as watercolour and pastel or a delicate watercolour but a little acrylic on the top such as people in a landscape which I find hard in a landscape what to do first the background or the people -- either way I seem to get a 'halo' of whitr around them and it doesn't look natural. watercolours lovely for delicate flowers like poppies where you can almost see through them,frustrating -- but great fun :o)

thanx for that pamq i will keep up the experimenting and if it goes wrong its all your fault lol.anyway take care bye for now xx

love to see your efforts-- :o)

I like your paintings think there great keep it up.

I think your paintings look great..... i do some art work myself, ,i do it to please myself.... i think its a very enjoyable hobby and very relaxing...... jus t paint as you wish theres no right or wrong... as long as your happy doing it... it should help with your sad......

From someone who cant draw a straight line I think all your pics and sculptures are amazing - its nice to see you draw something different that made you think!! we all should try something new otherwise it would be a boring old world!!

they are amazing !! i do admire people with this talent ,, have tried drawing but not with alot of success (well none actually!)

thank you so much your so kind i shall persavere not with my terrible spelling though sorry.if you think thats bad you should see my writing lol.. the key board is my saviour lol.i realy apreciate your input.your right genuiss it would be boring.that is something you couldnt acuse me of i dont think lol.take care bye for now.

Well Leigh, you know I like your pictures lol ! Will you put a photo of the finished and framed orangutan on here - would love to see it. Are you going to keep it?
I do like your watercolour, but I think it would look better with the flower more of a purpley colour. Any news on sausage yet? xx

hello skillen how are you ? yes i will put a picture of the orangutan up and know i just drew it as i have a real love of orangs but no i will sell it if someone wants it as it goes.im running out of space in my house . i only keep pictures that are personal to me or i would have hundreds of them lol .i thaught the water colour was ok but alright for first try ever i thaught but yes it could of been a lot better.i mite try oils see how much i can mess them up lol .as for sausage i think she is as shes acting different but realy hard to tell at 2-3 weeks after mating.i will keep you updated so dont worry lol.take care bye for now xx .

I'm fine, looking forward to seeing your finished orangutan. I do like the watercolour, I think it is a great outcome for your first go,and I'm sure if you tried oils it would be just as good if not better.

thank you skillen i realy apreciate that xx

and you paint as well, excellant paintings. you don't write poetry as well do you only i'm worried i might be you. oils are good to work with but take an age to dry out. and also i agree working with water colours is a lot more difficult than acrylics. maybe i'll show some of mine when i get more used to all of this. and i also agree when people say they can't draw or paint i think it's just that they haven't yet found thier way into the field as it were :)

your right april most things that you get better at are because of the eage to want to and bearing that in mind most people can better thereselves if they realy want to and that goes for lots of things.id love to see your work.ive an email addy at noseypotter41@hotmail.com if that makes it any easier.as for me im not interested enough to do the painting at all so this is my first and last atempt.ill stick with pastel,watercolour pencil,sculpting and glass paint i think. it was interesting just to know that its not an avenue im happy with lol if that makes any sense .

I think your painting was pretty darn good for a first attempt. I find watercolours quite hard as it goes. I think it's really bad that they didn't start you off from the beginning with the watercolours.

I think you'd enjoy working with oils as I find they're rather like pastels in the way you use them. I tend to work wet on wet with oils and do lots of blending of the wet colours in the canvess - the possibilities are endless and (unlike watercolours) if you make a mistake you can get a knife and just scrape the colour off adn start again! The down side of oils is that there are some nasty chemicals involved and the materials are a bit pricey. When I was learning I just painted onto cardboard primed with PVC instead of wasting canvasses. Paints are cheaper on line.

thanx sid makes a lot of sense but bye nature im terrible with money for a start and i am messy as anything secondly.i believe if i used oils i would be more painted than the canvas lol .this is why the pastels and pencils are so forgiving wear im concerned but thanx anyway xx .

Yes, I think pastels are defo your medium :-)

i agree sid xx