I am 35 years old and I majored in computer engineering and had my master's degree in project management. After a hand injury two years ago, I decided to have some major changes in my life. Now, it has been almost a year since I seriously started to focus on studying painting on my own. After deciding to focus on painting, I started to grasp the vastness of knowledge that I must learn such as, how to use brushes, mix colors, prepare canvases, draw perspective, build layers, etc. Of course, since childhood I did some watercolor paintings, but it was only 1 or 2 paintings in a year. That is why it's a huge struggle for me to understand oil painting. As a beginner, please bear with me.
This is my last watercolor painting before I changed my technique to oil painting.
Hi, @maveraulalem. Welcome to the forum.
I really like your painting. The colour and composition are great and I'm amazed that you can achieve such vibrancy and texture with watercolor.
Funnily enough I'm experiment with watercolours from oils. Good to experiment with different materials and techniques. I've been creating art all my life and I am still learning, it is a vast scope of knowledge and emotions to embrace.
Thank you so much 😊 somehow most of my paintings end up being too colorful. It cheers me up. And this forum is really amazing. How come I didn't find it before.
Beautiful work. Oils will be so much easier for this raw colour style.
Welcome to the forum. Your painting looks good. Has a bit of an oil painting feeling to it even though it’s a watercolor.
Glad to have you on the forum. I also moved to oils from watercolor. I find I enjoy both. Very nice painting.
Yeah, its got a lot of great texture. I can feel the as paper you have used.
Hello and welcome also from me.
Hello and welcome to the forum. I really love your painting. It is very beautifuil. It's amazing that you can make watercolors behave the way you do. Great results. I'm trying to learn Mark's method of painting. As you probably have already seen, his videos will walk you step by step to create through creating a beautiful oil painting. He doesn't use traditional layers like some oil painting methods so that's one less thing to learn with his method. Looking foward to seeing your progress.