It’s SHARK WEEK! And I have to confess I have a thing for sharks. NOT the crazy violent shark stuff, but…I’m just fascinated by these amazing animals. And since I bought some of this black watercolor paper to try, an underwater painting seemed a good place to start!
(If you are curious about these luminescent paints, see my next post!)
As for the paper – I’m not completely sold on it, but then again, I’ve just bought it so I need to do more testing. I like Stonehenge brand drawing paper and was excited to see what they would make for a watercolor paper….while this has a cold press kind of texture, it doesn’t have the feel of cotton that I like in other brands.
My instant hot take is that your better bet is using some DS Black Watercolor Grounds on Arches – I like the ‘feel’ of that better. Plus then you don’t have a whole pad of black paper staring at you. lol.
MORE LUMINANCE IS COMING
I’ll have LOTS more info on these luminescent paints in my next post, it’s one of those epic ones with too much info in it and I want to finish it off right before posting it. However – here’s my minipalette (by Whiskey Painters) that I put all my luminescent colors into; I’ll show the swatches of ALL luminescent colors in the epic post coming up.
MORE SHARK WEEK!?
On my Bible Journaling channel – a shark! lol…..
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- DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolors:
- Titanium White
- Iridescent Jade
- Iridescent Gold
- Iridescent Scarab Red
- Iridescent Electric Blue
- Interference Copper
- Interference Silver
- Interference Red
- Interference Blue
- Pearlescent Shimmer
- Whiskey Painters palette (16 half pans plus middle row of 8 optional)
- Stonehenge Black Watercolor Paper OR just use some of this on your favorite regular watercolor paper: DANIEL SMITH Watercolor Grounds, Mars Black 4 oz.
- Winsor Newton Kolinsky Sable Series 7 Round #10
- Da Vinci Maestro Kolinsky Sable Round 14
Fabulous Sandy, great to see you work on black. Thank you so much.
Really neat painting. Those luminance paints look very cool. Thanks for sharing.
Oh wow! This is just amazing! I love and hate sharks!!
WOW gorgeous shark painting and I loved your Bible journaling video. Great advice to wait on the Lord!
Fabulous painting, Sandy! I also love Shark Week (not the gory parts), so I really appreciate you bringing our attention to the series. I also enjoyed the music you used for the video, very ominous!
So. Cool. And thanks for the heads-up on Shark Week – one of my daughters also loves sharks – go fig. The black watercolor grounds look like fun to use – Ellen Hutson has some good info on this… I can see it for a snowy Christmas card… or a rainy night card… wow!