New paper, new paintings!! (Water colour)

I have moved from the rough surface to a much smoother cold pressed heavier paper - also moved from handmade Indian paper to Italian paper. It took some practice to get used to the new paper but I feel I am fine now. Here are some better paintings on the new paper. Let me know if you like them.

Watercolor sketches

Photographs as everyone knows enhance the contrast significantly making areas in shadow, very dark. So when one tries to paint from photograph on a large size paper, the painting does not have the same impact as the photograph. So I wanted to try something on a small size paper and ended up selecting a pocket size sketchbook. Here are 2/3 sketches I made yesterday and day before. I loved the effect, I hope you would like them as well.

Getting out of comfort zone

I am now trying to get out of my comfort zone trying new subjects with figures, textures and so on! Hopefully the experiements will help in building new skills.

More Water (watercolour)

Reading an excellent book by John Pike. While reading books cannot improve painting quality, at least it can help in avoiding common mistakes. Here is a painting which uses some learnings from the book. This is an exercise from Mr. Mulick's book.

Light and water (watercolour)

Some new paintings