Made with Winsor & Newton Designers Gouache and Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolours on Arches hot pressed paper 140 lbs 9in x 12in. I mainly used watercolor in this painting with the exception of one color (primary red, pink leaning red) I used in gouache. Also included a couple pictures of the painting in progress and the reference I used (taken at my local city garden’s orchid show earlier this year). Hope you enjoy!

Tried something a little different and left off any line work. Not perfect, but I think the colors came out well.

Not my chicken, and I’m not familiar enough with chicken breeds to guess what he is 😄

I asked about tutorials for misty forests before, and I got good recommendations from this sub. Does anyone know artists that have nice tutorials for pen and watercolour illustrative style of work? I mixed an matched all sorts of reference pictures and I don't think I did too bad, but I also feel like I'm stumbling in the dark.

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I’ll gladly switch from Dick Blick to an independent art supply store in the US if they can ship lower 48. Bonus points if they practice DEI! Please let us know your favorites!

Arches $20 12 sheets, versus Amazon basics $9 30 sheets. Both are the backside of the sheets with some artwork already on the other side.

11X15” watercolour on Arches 140lb cold press

White nights - Sonnet watercolor swatches. What do you think of these?

From my understanding these are studio (not artist) grade, but I really like them, and think I will use these quite a bit!