I'm painting a barn owl surrounded by foliage and floral motifs, using my new watercolor palette from Robax Engineering. For whatever reason, I always seem to experience a bit of a block when I use a new tool or approach, but I pushed through it and got this far today.
I keep thinking how much easier this would be to do with acrylic, but I'm pushing myself to learn watercolor because I believe that the colors can be so beautiful, and I like the funky things the paint can do, like the "blooms" in the leaves.
The hardest part so far was the Indigo shading around the edges. I made several passes at it, while I think a more experienced watercolorist would get the value correct the first time.
But as for the palette, it took a bit of getting used to. Although it holds virtually the same number of colors as the palette I'm used to (19 vs 18) it's much bigger so I've had to rearrange my work space. The mixing areas are also different - wedge shapes instead of rectangles - but I'm getting used to that as well. By the way, even using staining colors, the mixing trays washed out beautifully.
There was nothing wrong with the palette I was using before, but what attracted me to this one is the well liners that allow me to switch out colors. So far, so good.
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