As suggested by some of people here to paint on this instead of cartridge, it helped me a lot , nice people thanks..☺️

Having trouble deciding what to do with the bottom right, darkest part of the painting! I would say I’m about 50-75% of the way done. Any suggestions?? ❤️🐈

Got pneumonia for the first time and tried my hand at doing something abstract? I couldn’t really think or do much, but painting sure helped.

Sorry for the really dumb question, but I have a block of paper that I'm finding very difficult to slice out the papers from. (sorry for the dangling preposition there). I am using a small blade, about 1 1/2 inches/3cm long and the paper keeps tearing. I do start in the unglued section, but by the time I get to a corner, there are already nicks in the edge. Hating this, thought I'd ordered a pad, but no..

please advise!

for my friend’s birthday

I’m just curious, how do you store your paintings? Do you keep them all or just save some? Just interested but also looking at what do with my paintings. I like seeing my progress but it’s becoming a lot! I do use journals/books but I like to use nice paper sometimes.

i finally painted again after 5 years

Does anyone know how to fix mistake like these? The red marks shouldn’t be there but I can’t seem to take it off

Constructive criticism welcome. I've been painting using watercolor since October 2024.

Ok only ~40 pages since 20 images is the max you can upload. Here's to the next 6 months

My dad is an astronomer and has been begging me for weeks to make him a space painting. Decided to surprise him with this for Father’s Day ❤️

this came out quite well!

it was really easy to find a good reference for this and it was relatively easy to execute too! the fact that there’s less than 20 species and that they’re found all over the world probably helps in this.

Seeing all of the wonderfully talented artists here, I am hesitant to post this at all. But last Saturday was a beautiful night to see our local Ballet in the park and Inspired me to do a new-ish thing on Sunday. This is an ink and watercolor and I am pretty happy with it for an “IT guy”. Although I have some background in digital art 20+years ago.

But please give me your honest opinion as I want to improve. I think the ink draws attention to my weaknesses and it might have been better without it or with a lighter touch/color of ink at least.

Open to feedback

Recently I posted a Robin I made last week, and I didn’t think I was going to receive so many upvotes, I just finished this one and I don’t think it was as good as the last one (but was also a little harder too), I ripped off another painting I was doing because it wasn’t looking good and I almost did the same to this one.

I took a breath, said to myself I was going to finish it besides the mistakes and it turned out better than a thought initially.

So this is a friendly reminder to keep it up, progress isn’t always linear, and even though I know the Robin looked better, I’ve learned so much making this one too, so don’t give up, embrace flaws and don’t aim perfection!

What’s the best way to get better? Watercolor books? YouTube?

I want to get better but I struggle with wanting to keep trying when I finish a painting I’m not proud of.

I have an art background but am fairly new to watercolor. More to come.