Special request painting: "Daiana's Isle"

Yet another special request from a fellow family member:

A nice attempt to paint without any direct reference for someone. Just a nice challenge of experimenting with color theory, perspective, depth, mixed media (acrylic and watercolor) rendering, and, most importantly contributing to all those things, escapism. 

The warm colors, yellow-orange sky, the perspective of the rainbow, different shades of blue of the ocean and the shadow on the ocean as well. 

Admittedly, this is pretty Gilligan's Island-inspired here and, believe it or not, I was singing the theme song to myself the whole time. It's gonna be hard to unlearn it.

♪ Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale ♪ - Oh no, I'm doing it again!

Pencil sketch of the painting

Watercolor painting practice of a slice of pizza

Started experimenting more with watercoloring last Saturday, as well as minimalism and realism, of a slice of cheese pizza.

I think this one turned out all right. The intention I had was to draw/paint a cheese pizza with great detail, as I don't think that's ever been done before, and have ONLY a slice of pizza on a 9x12 paper.

Watercolor painting of the family cat

Had more fun painting something a little easier this time around. 

The family cat.

Pencil drawing

Finished version

Real life photo

More watercolor practice, of my dear ol' dog

Doing watercoloring is a wonderful way for me to calm down for occasions, but can be quite difficult to master. I adore the slow craft of traditional art, compared to the faster, but still relatively slow craft of digital art.

After doing my first watercolor of my backyard, I decided to make it easier on myself and something that wouldn't require much details. And, more importantly, something I love near and dear to me, personally. 

                        

A watercolor of our family dog my sister named Charlie (from her favorite movie, "All Dogs Go to Heaven"). 

Had her for about nearly 11 years now, so I want to a chance to do something for me and my sis as well.

Pencil sketch 

Watercolor practice

I forgot to make a post of this months ago, but here's a watercolor painting of my backyard (September 2022). Mind you, this is my first watercolor painting. I would've done a post of the penciling of this, but it's too late.

I've been using digital art softwares more than I do traditional art. But, thanks to my love of experimenting, I'm willing to try out traditional art, at least, after a short while. There are a lot of things I love about traditional art that digital art makes too easy and a little boring for me, is mixing colors, feeling paper and painting with patience. 

Watercolors does calm me down, so I do these things on occasions. 

One day, I'd like to do a cel painting of my Questo's World characters, just how animation was done in the Golden Age.