Day 11: Flower and Wedding Bouquet Illustration

Flower is always the popular item to paint. I am developing my watercolor skill and trying to find out my own style. Drawing flowers can be easy and hard. What I always do is that I find one of my favorite floral painter to learn her techniques and then try to paint a sharp photo of flowers on my own. I wouldn't say flower oil painting is easier than watercolor but rather say watercolor painting is more complicated in terms of the texture. Usually the flowers on oil painting can really pop up because painters put large amount of paints so that the thickness and contrast will appear. On the contrary, the proportion between water and paints is the essence of watercolor painting. Technically, the route of the water can be controlled but the color becomes always lighter after it has dried. Some watercolorists like Nora Macphail, Beni Gassenbauer, Adisorn Pornsirikarn, Peter Wagermans, Olivia Quintin, Rose Ann Hayes, Shin Jong Sik, are the ones who really have good grasp of watercolor techniques. Also How to draw flowers teaches tips on how to draw roses and flowers. I'm actually thinking about making a individual review of each artist mentioned above in the next following days.

The wedding stuffs are something that never gets aged because people love the romantic scene and the once-in-a-lifetime event. Wedding bouquet is also a very important factor in a wedding ceremony. A lot people teach how to make wedding bouquets and people just cannot resist the beauty of flowers. I don't really like drawing wedding dresses or gowns just because fashion illustration is a high-level market and most people just draw based on the photos of recent fashion shows. Nothing creative come up. Drawing gowns can sometimes end up being lame but when you put a bouquet instead of a face onto a gown it gives the gown a new life, the one that is imaginary and mystery. Not everything has something to do with humans in terms of fashion illustration. Plus when you mix things up, you step into a new level of art where you know that making art is not for selling it or please everybody but that making art is just for art itself.

Also wanted to introduce another artist, Christopher Stott. Since I love cameras and paintings, he combines both in a fascinating way.

Day 10: Watercolor Food Illustration

Summer fruit illustration

Sushi illustration

Dessert illustration

American

Recently, I've been searching for the style of my watercolor painting. It has been hard and frustrating. Every famous artist has his own style and people will fall in love with their artworks even most of the paintings don't make any sense to most people. Wondering why it is happening, because professional painter can paint really well but still they are just ordinary painters, however, all the greatest artists in the world are famous for the usual sight on the objects. How you can paint or draw doesn't really matter but what you can paint is the significant matter.

On the other hand, me, can only draw some food illustration. Feel helpless.

Day 9: Food Watercolor Illustration - What is in your fridge?

It was so interesting to find out the food in your fridge and it was even more interesting to draw them. 

What's in your fridge btw?

[Etsy Notes]The Unconventional Way to Explore Life

Guys, I've opened an art shop on Etsy two weeks ago. I loved painted and drawing since I was in the kindergarten. I still remember that I could always get a good grade easily on every piece of my artwork in my art class in elementary school and high school. However, I was not brave enough to continue my love to art in college, so I ended up studying Accounting. Three years ago, I realized that painting is part of my path where I should be for the rest of my life so I took drawing and painting classes both on campus and in the private studio outside the campus. One day, one of my friend asked me if I could draw something on the card that she was going to give it to someone as a greeting card. That was the time when I started to spread my love of art to the family and friends. After that, I taught myself the Adobe Suites, photography, website coding...almost everything that can inspire me with the creativity and art. Going to school is not the only way to study what you love to study.

I'm just a normal girl who loves art and needs to have her own art business. I don't have a professional art background like other BFA or MFA but I do have the passion and commitment to create a world where you shall all see the beauty of it.

So in the following couple of weeks, I'll update my progress each day.

Here are the simple watercolor cards I've painted since day 1: