Six months of doing art

Wow, so it’s already the beginning of July and therefore six months since I started drawing and painting. A few things happened in June:

Another new sketchbook

I made another sketchbook! This time with Khadi 150gsm 100% cotton paper. It took a while as each signature is exactly one sheet, but it does lie flat! I also took apart an cook book I found at the recycling center for the covers and I wrapped the back cover in one of it’s pages. Not the neatest job, but it kinda fits with how the paper also doesn’t have neat edges.

Tiny painting

I continued with the tiny painting in watercolour. Not that much as I was distracted by other stuff, though.

Granulating watercolour

I also got some Khadi paper in A7 and played around on it with my set of granulating watercolours. The paper warps quite a bit while it’s wet, so next time I think I’ll go for one their thicker stocks.

I tried to be pretty loose here and played around with adding paint before the line work. That was pretty freeing but not always successful.

Derwent Inktense pencils

My wife has this set of Derwent Inktense pencils and I’ve seen some fun stuff done with them, so I spent some time trying the out. Probably not my preferred medium, but they are very convenient.

Gouache

And lastly the gouache! This is turning out to be my favourite medium. It’s similar to watercolour, but you can get opaque layers with it, so you don’t have to plan as much as you do with watercolour. Also, the paper isn’t that critical.

I am still using my tiny set of basic colours and they work great. I did eye some extra colours, but somehow I don’t really feel the urge that strongly, which I good.

Also, I got these super cute 5x5cm sketchbooks and now I can combine my love of tiny paintings with gouache, too! Expect more tiny insects in the future.