Future of my art is traditional?

Love working with gouache!

I would like to talk about traditional and digital art today.
Back in the day when I started out I only drew traditionally. Pencils, watercolors, acrylics and oils( I partook in a little art class where old ladies painted vases for a couple years once a week before my studies)
I was introduced to working digitally during my studies and quickly fell in love with the convenience of it. Control-Z is a gamechanger. Working digitally makes just going ahead so much easier since you can always erase and change the result till it’s done.
But I feel that working mostly digitally has left me with a bit of a RISK aversion.
I learned a lot from it (and I’m far from done with learning) but now I feel like it is the right time to turn back to traditional media and try to achieve just as finished pieces as digitally.

Why?

Well, a traditional piece is obviously mine. You probably can imagine why this is so important nowadays… I don’t want to talk about that, enough artists are doing so and instead of getting all depressed about the problem at hand I want to move in a direction that CAN be helpful.

It’s not as if I have NO traditional skills. I’ve used watercolors and gouache sporadically, I often like the pieces that I produce, but it is way harder than doing it on my Ipad. And I often start doing more and then something blocks me and I turn to the easier medium.

GOALS 2024:
- get really comfortable using Gouache
- Get confident enough to tackle more complex pieces with gouache

Maybe someday I can also live from selling my originals. :D

I started with small pieces again to get well acquainted with my colors. This piece from Friday worked so nicely and boosted my confidence!

And so I kept going and painted another:

And started another this weekend:

One thing I also feel worth mentioning about working with real paints is the joy of watery colors do their thing ( like in that first layer of paint in the blackberries above) , reacting with the paper.

In the future I will still use my Ipad (but maybe a bit less). I like switching around and it as a tool is hugely valuable to me! I also like planning a painting digitally and then executing it on paper as below:

digital sketch, trace onto paper, watercolor painting

WEEKLY PRACTICE

More Birds!!! This weeks reference birds .

Last weeks birds of mine:

Your Birbs<3: Vanessa M. , Christin Seidl - Kryssy Art and Illustrations, Dnkn Hlft Illustration , Hitorik art

Will you join me again this week? If so tag me on Instagram. I will share some in my stories and here <3 #schmoescosyartclub