💐🎨 Work in realism - Trying a new technique.

I thought that watercolor was one of the most complicated technique ... until I found Liquid watercolor. Today is the day to make a walk among frustration, prayers and (almost) achievement of one of the most difficult techniques I have ever encountered.

From disaster to art, Volume II - Or for my teachers: "At least there is an improvement".

I will not deny that traditional techniques aren't exactly my bests skills, and I often take a very long time with them. But even so I keep trying ... or what i can do within the little time they give us to paint.

First try... well, not longer that

My first time working with liquid watercolors (and to tell the truth I didn't even know it existed before this semester), but as our beloved teachers expect the Mona Lisa in the first attempts, the bad grades were waiting for me.

I just checked and I realized that I threw away my first attempt before taking a picture .... upps ... my apologies.

Process

The first attempt, as they noted, was not the best; So I decided to use my secret card: I went to the girl with good grades in the class and i asked to help me understand ;D.

Dear teachers, The Mona Lisa was painted in 13 years. Why do you expect that in less than 2 days we will paint realistically with a technique that we have never handled before?

It did not take much time in reality; with a greater patience I managed to give a good second attempt.

I started with the insect because it was the most important and the one to take longer. The key was to use little paint and a considerably low amount of water (almost zero ... I knew that this technique was sensitive but I did not know that much).

With patience and time it was given. After a day I was almost ready.

I liked the result, at least there was a considerable improvement. Too bad it was not enough for an approved grade ... I've said it before, I even think they would reprove Miguel Angel if they could.

Learn and Improve: Art community for all platforms

Do you want a place where you can stalk your favorite artist with out been considered freak? We have a new (not so new) group on discord: we share tutorials, books and art’s tricks (with some yaoi in the middle).

https://discord.gg/HeGYXsK

Aka: It’s a group with artists from other platforms. So there is not a steemit chat, but still you can promote your artworks and connect with other artists.