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Lighthouse under the northern lights. I painted

Lighthouse under the northern lights.

I painted the northern lights in this a while ago, and it's been sitting on my shelf waiting to be finished. I didn't make much of a plan beforehand (note to self: make a plan!), so lots of happy little mistakes and impulsive strokes happened along the way. 😉

Swipe to see some wip pics.

Painted on Saunders Waterford 425gsm NOT watercolour paper with Sennelier l'Aquarelle paints.

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Zero calorie cake, what a dream! 😁 Drawn using

Zero calorie cake, what a dream! 😁 Drawn using only the procreate pencil brush in Procreate.
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Still working on my northern lights paintings. Ma

Still working on my northern lights paintings.

Materials used:
- Saunders Waterford 425 gsm NOT paper
- Sennelier l'Aquarelle watercolour paints
- Royal Talens Rembrandt watercolour paints
- Winsor & Newton Designer's gouache, permanent white
- Round brush size 4, flat brush size 10

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This is NOT a quick sketch. I often see the captio

This is NOT a quick sketch. I often see the caption "Quick sketch" on Instagram posts, and I don't like it. Why? Because it can be so demotivating for beginners to see what they consider a master piece, having that tag. In time I have realised that a "quick sketch" can be anything from 10 seconds to 10 hours, depending on the artist...so it really doesn't say much about the amount of work having been put into it.

I forgot to time this drawing, but it definitely was not quick. It took me maybe 1,5 hours, and I struggled!

I've been wanting to work on my drawing skills, and in particular on drawing from life, which I find very challenging with the constantly changing light. But skills and confidence will come with practice! 😊

Materials used:
- Moleskine art sketchbook 165gsm
- Pentel twist-erase 0.5 mechanical pencil HB
- Lyra art design graphite pencil 2B and 4B
- Tombow Mono Zero Eraser
- Blending stump

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My best aurora painting to date! Swipe to see a c

My best aurora painting to date! Swipe to see a comparison of a painting I did in 2018 vs 2021. 😉

I have been struggling for 3 years to get a grip on painting auroras. I have tried tutorials online, but none have given me the results I was trying for. But now I think I am finally on my way to find "my way" of painting northern lights, by combining tips from different tutorials.

The painting from 2018 is done with student grade watercolour and cellulose paper, which I soon learned was not good for painting auroras.

Materials used for the 2021 painting:
- Arches NOT watercolour paper 300 gsm
- Sennelier l'Aquarelle watercolour paints (Indigo, Phthalo blue, Phthalo green deep, Lemon yellow, Sennelier red)
- Winsor & Newton Designer's gouache (white)
- Brushes: Round sable size 6, flat synthetic brush 1 1/2"

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Next level watercolour swatches. Usually I just sw

Next level watercolour swatches. Usually I just swatch out single colours, but lately I have felt the urge to get better at colour mixing and understanding my paints. This is the result of that urge! 😊 In a regular mixing chart I just paint one mix of two colours, and can't appreciate the range of colours a mix can produce. In my *new and improved* (and extraordinarily time consuming) mixing swatches, I see four different outcomes those colours can produce. I did one swatch card for every two colour combination. They look nice, don't they?

Warning! I strongly discourage to do this for a large set of colours. 6 colours gives 15 cards, which is allright. But for a 12 colour set, you will need to paint 66 cards!

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Paints: Billy Showell's 6 colour basic set of Sennelier l'Aquarelle watercolour tubes (lemon yellow, Sennelier yellow deep, Sennelier red, Rose madder lake, French ultramarine, Phthalo blue)
Paper: 5x5cm squares cut from Arches NOT 300gsm
Pen: Pigma Micron black 08

Game art! My husband and I published our very fir

Game art! My husband and I published our very first computer game today: The Snowman from Hanoi. We've been working on it in our spare time for two months. It's a small and insignificant game, but we all have to start somewhere. 😉 I'm so proud of our team effort!

A few days ago I felt the urge to do a watercolour painting from the game. It was a lot of fun to do! 😁 See last slide for mock-up "game cover" with the watercolour painting on it.

The game art was made using Procreate (sketches) and Affinity Designer (final drawings).
Happy to answer any questions!

Feel free to check out the game at https://kognera.itch.io/the-snowman-from-hanoi

Instagram: @kognera
Website and blog: kognera.com

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A Penguin for Doodlewash February. And yes, I admi

A Penguin for Doodlewash February.
And yes, I admit it: I chickened out on painting the feet...sorry, mister penguin! 😂

Reference photo from https://unsplash.com/@snapdb

Materials used:
- Saunders Waterford 300 gsm NOT watercolour paper
- Round kolinsky be brush size 6 & 2
- Sennelier l'Aquarelle watercolour paints

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Kiwi 🥝 done with watercolour + white gouache. I

Kiwi 🥝 done with watercolour + white gouache. I was a bit indecisive in my approach, which resulted in the common problem of painting the lights too dark. I tried to lighten the light areas with white gouache, but it was not very successful. The highlights is also painted with gouache. The important thing is I had fun, and learned a bit! 😉
😊

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Gouache winter fun! Playing with gouache in the t

Gouache winter fun!
Playing with gouache in the toned watercolour sketchbook I got for Christmas. I had no plan when I started, but this is what emerged.

Materials used:

- Hahnemühle toned watercolour sketchbook
- Flat brush WN Foundation acrylic brush size 2
- Holbein artists' gouache
- Uni Posca PC-1M white
- Washi tape

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Animation in Procreate is so much fun! 😁 I high

Animation in Procreate is so much fun! 😁 I highly recommend Brooke Glaser's Skillshare class as an introduction to animation in Procreate. I learned so much, and it was such an inspiration. Thank you, @paperplaygrounds

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Playing around in Procreate. 😀 #procreate #proc

Playing around in Procreate. 😀
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More Niederegger Marzipan, green one today. 😍 I

More Niederegger Marzipan, green one today. 😍 I just realized this is practically an ode to Germany - German marzipan, drawn on German Hahnemühle paper with German Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils! 😂

All in all happy with the results, though I still have a way to go on perfecting the letters and proportions. 😊

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Niederegger Marzipan. 😍 Drawn with Polychromos

Niederegger Marzipan. 😍 Drawn with Polychromos in my Hahnemühle grey book.

Couldn't resist drawing this cute, little marzipan piece. This is my second try drawing it - swipe to see the first try.

I ran into several issues with my first drawing, mainly the shape was a bit squashed and the letters were not straight. But it had potential, so I gave it another go. My focus was then to improve the shape/proportions and get the letters straight.

On my second attempt I made some errors, and tried to fix it with an eraser. That wore down my paper, so I basically couldn't get down any more layers of pencil on top of it.

And my letters did not end up much better than the first time, even if I was determined to get it right. I'm not used to writing tiny letters, and getting them both small enough and on a straight line was a big challenge.

I drew from life, which resulted in a quite wonky shape that defies all rules of perspective. I find it hard to focus on the shape from the exact same angle every time I switch my gaze from the paper to the subject I am drawing.

The only thing to do is keep on practicing! 😊

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Perfume. Transparent objects like this little perf

Perfume. Transparent objects like this little perfume bottle are intimidating to paint. But there's only one way to master it: to try and fail and try again! 😁

I keep learning I shouldn't be so lazy, and that it probably pays off giving both sketching and colour mixing the attention they deserve... I wonder how many times I have learned that now? Next time I will do it properly! Maybe... 😂

Materials used:
- Canson Moulin du Roy HP 300gsm
- Sennelier l'Aquarelle watercolour paints
- Round sable brush size 6
- Round synthetic size 1
- Mechanical pencil and transfer paper for sketch

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Mussel study in my sketchbook. I tried this waterc

Mussel study in my sketchbook. I tried this watercolour tutorial by Billy Showell. I learned that this is a kind of tutorial I would benefit from watching through once before actually starting to paint, as I suddenly got ahead of myself and had added details that were added in a later stage of the tutorial. 😉 I did make noticeable progress from the first to the third try, which is always a great feeling! 😊

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I tried Anna Mason's free pear class! The big form

I tried Anna Mason's free pear class! The big format in the class scared me a bit, so I did this as a "test run" in my sketchbook (19x13cm) to see if the colours I had were close enough to the reference. I think it turned out ok. Honestly, though, I don't feel inspired to do it over in bigger format atm, so I will move on to other projects for now. 😉
You can find the free class at annamasonart.com

Materials used:
- Canson Moulin du Roy HP 300 gsm watercolour paper
- Various round brushes sizes 6, 4, 1, 4/0
- Sennelier l'Aquarelle watercolour (Lemon yellow, Phthalo green light, Burnt sienna, Payne's grey)
- Reference photo from Anna Mason

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Elephant for the Art challenge #doodlewashnovember

Elephant for the Art challenge #doodlewashnovember2020

It's been a long time since I did an art challenge, so decided it's time. I had fun with this one, and I learned a lot! So, you may be wondering what I learned from this one...well, first and foremost: you know those watercolourists who go on and on about how you should mix your own neutrals instead of using grey/black watercolour? Well, turns out they have a point! I was doing fine with this painting, until I got lazy and fell for the temptation of using Payne's grey for my dark grey parts... So, folks? Mix your own neutrals! 😂

Materials used:
- Saunders Waterford NOT 300gsm watercolour paper
- Sennelier l'Aquarelle watercolour paints (Cobalt blue, Sap green, Raw Sienna, Burnt sienna, Payne's grey)
- Round brush no 4 Silver Black Velvet
- Reference photo from Pixabay

The process:

I started out doing a light background wash of Cobalt blue, Sap green and Raw sienna.
After that dried, I studied the reference photo and painted a glaze of Cobalt blue on the cool parts of the elephant skin, and Burned sienna on the warm parts. I then mixed Cobalt blue and Burnt sienna to a neutral grey/brown and applied that over the dried glaze. And that looked really good, but then I got lazy and ventured off the path of mixing my own neutrals. I bravely and fearlessly got in there with Payne's grey! 😂 Oh my... I tried my best to fix it after the fact, but this is watercolour after all. There's just so much you can do. ☺️

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A couple of months ago I was challenged to design

Teddy painting is done! 😍 I saw this teddy on d

Teddy painting is done! 😍
I saw this teddy on display in the airport in Berlin a couple of years ago, and I fell in love. Hope you like it too.

Materials used:
- Saunders Waterford cold pressed watercolour paper 300gsm
- Round sable brush size 6, round synthetic brush size 1
- Sennelier l'Aquarelle watercolour paints
- Mechanical pencil
- Photo for reference

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