"Do you dabble in watercolors?" Topic

In addition to painting miniatures, do you also paint watercolors?

No. Photoshop and Poser are my other artistic attempts.

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I used to when I was younger. Ink and watercolour as well as pastels.

No

Same as Martin. Pen & ink drawing, watercolours & soft pastels. Been many, many years since I did any of that but still have the kit. OK at drawing & loved pastel landscapes but never really got the hang of watercolours.

No. Pencils, colored pencils and trying for oil and chalk pastels. (Courses keep getting cancelled.)

Yes. My preferred medium.

I recently experimented with them, to color a fantasy poster map. Never got the hang of them -- too opaque for my needs, even after watering them down a bit; scary thing is that these are children's water color paints, not professional/artist grade (don't want to spend the money to learn they won't work either…). Tried Daler Rowney acrylic inks, but even the transparent inks are too opaque for my needs. I used colored pencils on the original map, 30 years ago. I will go back to pencils when I get back to working on it again. Cheers!

Yes, but I still prefer using acrylics. Was going to weekly Art club at local senior center until covid. Was mostly a BS section but we did manage to get some art done.

Yes, and I also really like them for detail work on miniatures. They are heavily pigmented and can be thinned down quite a bit, useful for thin lines for tartans, etc.

Yep.

Yes although not as often as I would like.

Tony

I love water colors. Most of my best paintings are in water colors.

No, I preferred oils back when I used to paint. In 3 years at art school water colors were glossed over, oils were the go to medium for painting.

I have no artistic ability whatsoever.

I tried watercolors but extremely hard to keep the paint from running. Got frustrated, went to colored pencils.

I create comics using markers, paintings (acrylic) and assemblage sculptures out of junk.

No. The only canvases that I paint are table covers for games.

I wouldn't use water colors on them, because they will always be water soluble.

It's been quite awhile, but could always happen again if the mood strikes.

It was the medium taught in Stage & Lighting Design class. Every design project had to include a perspective drawing of the set done in watercolours.

Yes I do!

Yes, i a couple of media.

I wouldn't use water colors on them, because they will always be water soluble.

Krylon makes a nice "workable fixative" sealant that will fix watercolors (chalk, pencils, etc.) on canvass and still allow you to paint over top (not that you're looking for that last bit).

Acrylics for backdrop painting – courtesy of the Bob Ross school via TV. Water colors were a grade school experience. My one art class in junior high school – with the hot teacher – did not include water colors.