I want to give a card to one of my teachers and wanted to decorate it personally, I have never been into painting, but I don’t want to get anyone else to paint for me. Wish me Luck

  • scrion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    You know what, this post is great for not only one, but two reasons: you decided to do something nice for another person, and you are getting to try a new skill in the process.

    Both things make me happy for you. Have fun!

  • virku@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Never seen water colors not in blocks but in tubes before. Are those fancy water colors, or am I just uninformed?

    • Duranie@literature.cafeEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      I’ve played around with both tubes and dry “blocks”. For best of both worlds, you can get palettes that come in a box with removable sections that can be filled with whatever color paint. I filled these with paint from tubes, and by keeping the box closed it will mostly retain moisture of the paint while storing. If left long enough they will dry out, but being water colors, I just mist them with water and they work again.

      The one I have is basically like this https://a.co/d/j4TrTo6 .

      Also - you can get brushes that hold water! It’s basically a brush with a water chamber, and you squeeze it to put more water into the bristles. Makes it easy to travel, but for me it’s far less messy and keeps the colors cleaner.

    • fastandcurious@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I have no idea as well lol, I saw some videos on YT and they were tubes though. Ig there might be other kinds, but I just picked the ones that seemed familiar

  • Maco1969@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Don’t worry about the quality of the paint, I grew up using cheap Chinese water paints and it was OK.

    • fastandcurious@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      One thing was how fricking cheap they are, idk anything about quality, will have to see when I try but still, also there were others like this but half the price

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Nice. That’s a good score.

        I don’t know anything about watercolors quality either, but you should post again later and let us know how it went

        • fastandcurious@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Tbh, if anything is gonna fail, it’s my painting lol, but there are always colour pencils which are never gonna fail, but I really wanted to try something else

          I think I am just gonna draw some gradients and stuff instead of something complicated

          • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Cool. I always liked colored pencils, but I can never get them to do what I wanted.

            Not that I practiced enough in the first place of course.

            I tend toward simple lines and drawing comics more, I love black and white ink line drawings

            • fastandcurious@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              I also feel like they might not be great if you wanna make something more than simple drawings/colorings

              • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                3·
                1 year ago

                Colored pencils?

                Yeah, I don’t think I ever got passed crude brontosauruses and t-Rexes with those.

                But boy, was there an excess of dinosaur coloring going on, haha.

                Oh and one detailed gryphon in 9th grade.

                Actually, I remember that this one gryphon turned out so well that I stopped used coloring pencils afterwards haha.

                Like I thought to myself " All right, I’ve reached the peak of my craft. Time to move on."

    • pseudoEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      How are there stored usually? I’ve seen plenty of watercolors tubes my whole life. It is no surprise to me.

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Dried reservoirs of paint in a pallette you mix a little water into are the only kind I’ve seen up till now.

        Something like this:

        • pseudoEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’ve known both but the dried version cannot easily be turned into paste but the paste in tube can be diluted further down to get this watery color.

          • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’ve never seen or heard of the tubes before, I assume because I don’t regularly paint.

            Are they recently popular or did you use them as a kid?

            • pseudoEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              I used them as kids. Especially in art classes but for home painting, giving a kid the dried ones is more common. I assume it is because it is easier to store and to wash if when the kid put paint everywhere.

  • Ludrol@szmer.infoEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Your personal journey about that card is really sweet (Thanks for sharing it with us). Can’t wait for the finale.

    Be careful about the paper. Make sure to use the tape to tension the paper so there won’t be any wrinkles and consider buying paper made specifically for watercolors.

    • fastandcurious@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      There isn’t really anyone else to share with, so the internet it is

      And yeah I am seriously considering getting specific papers, it seems like normal ones get a little weird with water

      Edit: Also yeah I would want to share what happens, but I feel a lot of context will be needed for a post of that kind to make sense, will see

  • Grayox@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    If you dont like the medium please dont hesitate to try out oil painting, it is Sooooooo much more forgiving than watercolors. Either way good luck with your art journey!!

  • aequitas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    These don’t look like water colors to me. Normally water is shades of blue. Unless you want to paint near an industrial waste site, then these colors are probably fine.