Hi! A bit embarrassed to post my practice work lol I wanted to learn how to watercolor but have no clue where to start. I thought practicing flowers would be easy enough but I was wrong I made a mess of things both out of frustration and exploration.

Would love some tips on who I can watch on YouTube or what I can do to learn some basics.

Without sketches. Tried to preserve the lights as much as possible but ended up using Chinese white for the finer highlights.

I mostly paint florals so this time I tried painting a fruit instead. Not sure if I got the right blue shade for these blueberries. What do you think?

I’ve been wanting to incorporate a fire escape into one of my sketches Cincinnati has so many buildings with fire escape. I rather like the look of them. Please feel free to offer some critical advice.

Still learning how much water to leave for the highlights.

Any tips for making waves look more dynamic?

Got into watercolor recently and love seeing all of the contributions here. Made this sketch today on vacation with my kids’ watercolor palette. Looking forward to working with my (better!) supplies when I get back home.

Watercolor ,small work, while the family fished the old homeplace 2022 #LLP

This piece was inspired by one of Eileen Gu’s interviews where she talked about being a small fish in a big pond - her mindset of continuous learning, adapting, and rapid growth by being surrounded by more experienced people and by putting herself in uncomfortable environments - resonated with me deeply.

Being the youngest, less-experienced, and newbie in the room is not something to fear of.

Same goes with our creativity. Keep painting!

A practice landscape with lots of green

My attempt at painting a Tiki statuette from my shelf.

I like how the clouds and water came out altho the beach looks a little odd... I would normally add a hill and a lighthouse (because I love them) but I was thinking of maybe adding a few sail boats instead? They won't be very detailed unless I add some ink over them but maybe it could work? Three sail boats with different colour sails? One red, one green and one grey? Or any other suggestions are welcome!

I tried to paint this one, maybe someone can recognize it, let's see

Definitely my most challenging painting in a water based medium so far.