I have only a bit of basic experience with watercolor and aquarel pencils, so I would like to expand on this.
In the crate of inherited paint stuff were a lot of cool watercolor containers! Oh, and the stretched sheet of paper you see on that board? It is older than I am haha, my mother stretched it ages ago. It helt up fine during practise, but I'm glad I didn't keep it for a more elaborate work.
I never heard of line and wash, but boy do I love its looks and style!
Nostalgic~
In the bottomleft you can see a small negative space practise, but ah... Soon after this photo I went to ruin it.
I should probably draw something other than trees.. Oh well!
I have also tried salt and masking fluid, though I tend to be too impatient for these techniques (it looked fine, untill I started poking around and testing techniques upon techniques... Should have made progress photo's because it just looks like puke now!). I should also try to work with negative spaces more, as well as planning my steps better.
Acrylics
Because I never worked with acrylics before (only once to make a costume, but I don't think that counts) and wasn't sure what "styles" are most common I followed/imitated Gagnon's tree video as a step up.
Oh god, I didn't adjust the colours to eachother. And my small brush disagreed (probably picked the wrong one). And my fanned brush was a monster compared to this tiny tiny canvas I had laying around, meaning my grass looks more like some bright green mush ghhh.
I enjoyed the paint and method! It is sort of like watercolor in terms of mixing and deluding, but more like how I expect oil paint to be in terms of movability when on the canvas. It did dry super fast, faster than I would have liked.
Gonna try different methods very soon, I hope!
Oil
During my first attempt at oilpaint, the brush felt very awkward... So I decided to try the paletknife instead for my first go. A problem I ran into before I could start was that I couldn;t open 80% of my paint tubes, resulting in problem number two: ran out of certain colours since I could only open the tiny tubes and needed a lot for the paletknife technique. I also didn't observe the reference enough and could (wanted) have gone in a more abstract-expressive way. It's all kind of fuzzy now.
Do love the medium though, just need tons of practise. Next time, I will try the more gentle approach, as this approach miiiight have been more of a gouache or other thick paint type of thing, haha.
Revisit....
Doesn't look like the source in the slightest way urgh... Didn't pay attention to the curve and direction of the face enough. Should have taken the caricature aspect into my oilpaint practise!! OBSERVATION! God...
