Sounds like the title of a fairy tale, but I’m actually going to talk about 2 paintings I made with my new set of iridescent watercolours :).
The first one is a magpie, one of my favorite birds with its tuxedo-like plumage and its petroleum colours. My previous trials of magpies had not been very satisfying, but I thought this new set of paints were worth making another attempt, and I’m quite happy with the result!
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I’ve been working on a pop-up book of the places I’ve lived in, for the Domestika class by Sylvia Hijano, which I’m really enjoying!
I just finished a page on Nice, France, where I spent around 8 years. Here are the details of the page.
Cimiez neighborhood, which is the area near which I used to live, with the roman arena, the Matisse museum and the monastery: And here is the Negresco, a luxuary hotel near the beach (the lines are for the popup folding):
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These last few weeks, I’ve enjoyed watching nature being reborn, flowers and trees blooming, taking moments outside feeling the sun on the face…
And it has inspired me this drawing, while I was sitting on my terrace and watching the plants I have and the neighbours’ too.
I hope you all enjoy spring time!
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On several of her YouTube’s videos, Creations CeeCee gives the very good advice of making doodling sketchbooks. It consits in painting circles or vague shapes when we have remaining paint, and drawing anything that comes to mind on top of it once it’s dry.
I tested that, and I really liked having a sketchbook like that always close by. It can be really fun, or relaxing depending on what we draw, and it’s a great activity for the kids too!
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I’ve been practising lately how to paint landscapes with watercolour, especially sea landscapes. I struggled quite a bit at first, with the colours and the details, but I’m quite happy with my last attempt.
Here is the original photo I took for inspiration, taken last April in Cargèse, Corsica:
As I mentioned, my first attempts were not very conclusive, especially the second one which I painted on site, I put them here to show the progress I’ve made over the trials:
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I often like to look at books and encyclopedia on nature to find inspiration.
For this one, I took the inspiration from the picture of a tree in the Serengeti savanna, where a bird called black-capped social weaver likes to make its nest. Many birds do so on the same tree (hence the name “social”), and the nests look like balls hanging a bit like in a Christmas tree :)
