Got my first set of water colours

I want to give a card to one of my teachers and wanted to decorate it personally, I have never been into painting, but I don’t want to get anyone else to paint for me. Wish me Luck

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You know what, this post is great for not only one, but two reasons: you decided to do something nice for another person, and you are getting to try a new skill in the process.
Both things make me happy for you. Have fun!

Whatever you make, please come share it !artshare@lemmy.world.
- I tried like 4 times but I always messed up something, so it’s gonna be a long time before I post anything lol
  
  If you don't want to share, at least keep photos for yourself. It Will be cool and useful for you in the future to look back at how your work has progressed or changed.

Don't worry about the quality of the paint, I grew up using cheap Chinese water paints and it was OK.
- I tried them and they seem pretty decent tbh
  
  I probably got a pretty decent dose of lead due to licking my brushes in the eighties, little sets of paints in lead tubes.

Awesome, I've never seen watercolors in a tube either.
But those are watercolors in a tube.
https://www.amazon.in/Doms-Non-Toxic-Cardboard-Assorted-Palette/dp/B07V5G7VZQ
Have fun!
- One thing was how fricking cheap they are, idk anything about quality, will have to see when I try but still, also there were others like this but half the price
  
  Nice. That's a good score.
  I don't know anything about watercolors quality either, but you should post again later and let us know how it went
- How are there stored usually? I've seen plenty of watercolors tubes my whole life. It is no surprise to me.
  
  Dried reservoirs of paint in a pallette you mix a little water into are the only kind I've seen up till now.
  Something like this:

Never seen water colors not in blocks but in tubes before. Are those fancy water colors, or am I just uninformed?
- I've played around with both tubes and dry "blocks". For best of both worlds, you can get palettes that come in a box with removable sections that can be filled with whatever color paint. I filled these with paint from tubes, and by keeping the box closed it will mostly retain moisture of the paint while storing. If left long enough they will dry out, but being water colors, I just mist them with water and they work again.
  The one I have is basically like this https://a.co/d/j4TrTo6 .
  Also - you can get brushes that hold water! It's basically a brush with a water chamber, and you squeeze it to put more water into the bristles. Makes it easy to travel, but for me it's far less messy and keeps the colors cleaner.
- https://www.amazon.in/Doms-Non-Toxic-Cardboard-Assorted-Palette/dp/B07V5G7VZQ
  Nope, those are straight up watercolors, the kind of which I've never seen either.
  Pretty cool.
  I guess they are for people like me who don't want to mix our own stuff. I'm into it.
- I have no idea as well lol, I saw some videos on YT and they were tubes though. Ig there might be other kinds, but I just picked the ones that seemed familiar

Your personal journey about that card is really sweet (Thanks for sharing it with us). Can't wait for the finale.
Be careful about the paper. Make sure to use the tape to tension the paper so there won't be any wrinkles and consider buying paper made specifically for watercolors.
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  Thanks a lot, I actually went a step down and used old A4 sheets that were printed on one side lol, just because I always feel guilty wasting perfectly good papers, I will buy better ones for the actual thing though
  
  Can you tell me what do you mean by ‘sealing the surface’
- There isn’t really anyone else to share with, so the internet it is
  And yeah I am seriously considering getting specific papers, it seems like normal ones get a little weird with water
  Edit: Also yeah I would want to share what happens, but I feel a lot of context will be needed for a post of that kind to make sense, will see

If you dont like the medium please dont hesitate to try out oil painting, it is Sooooooo much more forgiving than watercolors. Either way good luck with your art journey!!
- Possibly not ideal for cards though, since it takes forever to dry

Good luck, Have fun!

Squint at splodges and the shapes will show themselves.

So sweet. They're gonna love it!
- Damn, why are the nicest people always from lemmy.ca \ (•◡•) /

Time to get busy.

These don’t look like water colors to me. Normally water is shades of blue. Unless you want to paint near an industrial waste site, then these colors are probably fine.

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