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🔸️Calligrafikas Tips🔸️ . Another way of using a cat's tounge is to use it sideways to produce slender leaves. Instead of dabbing into a single pigment try to dab your brush to another pigment while making a mark. This will produce multi colored leaves. If your green is too bright for you then you should mix a tiny bit of purple or red to mute or make your green deeper. . Paper: Clairefontaine 300gsm Brush: @zytang_art cat's tounge no 10 Paint: Mixed brands . • • • • • #calligrafikastips #calligrafikas #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #watercolorpainting #botanicalwatercolor #botanicalart #botanicalpainting #watercolorart #watercolortutorial #doitfortheprocess #timelapse #timelapsepainting #waterblog #watercolor_daily #watercolour_gallery #inspiring_watercolor #watercolorartist #watercolorist #botanicalartist #calligrafikaswatercolors https://www.instagram.com/p/B1oNPm9HwwO/?igshid=1n0qzl78lzl01

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🔸️Calligrafikas Tips🔸️ . If you want to try gouache but you're thinking you have a lot of watercolors lying around, then try adding a white gouache or poster color to your watercolor mixes. It will make the paint opaque and will have the same consistency as gouache. . Or if you have poster color, then try that first. Poster color is almost the same as gouache, it's just that the poster color's pigment are more course but to be honest sometimes you won't see the difference between the two. . You can use any kind of paper for gouache, it's not that important unlike in watercolors. That's why I use the paper that I dislike for watercolor use and just use them for my gouache paintings. . So that's just a few tips for you guys, here's the static version of the painting I did for my Youtube channel, if you haven't seen the process vid you may visit https://youtu.be/EbgENS3SCUA. . Paper: Bee Paper Journal Brush: @silverbrushltd Silver Silk 88 flat shader no 10 & 8, soft curve no 12 Paint: @winsorandnewton Designer Gouache, @turnercolourworks Design Gouache • • • • • #gouache #gouachepainting #gouacheflorals #floralpainting #florals #botanicalart #botanicals #lilies #botanicalartist #art_we_inspire #dailyart #painteveryday #surelysimple #artistph #craftsfeed #calligrafikasfloralgouache #artph #calligrafikas #calligrafikastips https://www.instagram.com/p/B1-CYQzntiC/?igshid=1vj0z2frbeivo

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🔶️Calligrafikas Tips🔶️ By varying every colors, saturation & value in your strokes, you will create a more interesting textures & dimension. In this way you won't have a dull & flat painting. Try experimenting this & you'll probably enjoy this. #dreweuropeo #calligrafikas #grafikas #artist #watercolorartist #watercolor #watercolorpainting #waterblog #expressivepainting #loosepainting #grafikaflora #calligrafikaswatercolors #calligrafikastips #processvid #timelapsevid #timelapsepainting #timelapse Paper: Tokyo Finds Hot pressed 190gsm Brush: Escoda Optimo travel round no 6 Paint: Sennelier

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🔶️Calligrafikas Tips🔶️ By varying the colors of your greens, it will produce a more interesting foliage. It can be different mixes of greens or different tones of greens. Try to experiment more on colors & get to know them so you will have that confidence in using colors that you might not be comfortable in using. You'll be surprised about the outcome 😊 #dreweuropeo #calligrafikas #grafikas #artist #watercolorartist #watercolor #watercolorpainting #waterblog #expressivepainting #loosepainting #grafikaflora #calligrafikaswatercolors #calligrafikastips #realtime #realtimevid #processvid Paper: Cheap Sketchbook Brush: Escoda Optimo travel round no 8 Paint: Shin Han

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Another take on a rose (real time vid), now using a dagger brush. Sometimes it is easier to use this kind of brush because it's giving the shapes that a rose has. If you are having a hard time with round brushes try to use a different kind & see if it's easier for you. #dreweuropeo #calligrafikas #grafikas #artist #watercolorartist #watercolor #watercolorpainting #waterblog #expressivepainting #loosepainting #grafikaflora #calligrafikaswatercolors #realtimevid #processvideo #calligrafikastips Paper: Cheap Sketchbook Brush: Rosemary & Co. Travel dagger brush Paint: Shin Han

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One of the dreaded mistakes of newbies is loosing the white space in roses. I guess often times when you are painting and getting into the zone, you just want to make brushstrokes without minding your tonal values. You started out right then loosing yourself too much, later on to realize that you created a huge blob instead of a rose. I suggest that whenever you try to paint a rose have a real photo reference with you so that you can check the curves, the shadows, the highlights & the midtones if all are present. It will take some time for others to figure this out but it's not so difficult to achieve it. If you practice this everyday, you will have the habit of checking your shapes & your tonal value. Here's a simple real time video on how I do my roses in using just brushstrokes. #dreweuropeo #calligrafikas #grafikas #artist #watercolorartist #watercolor #watercolorpainting #waterblog #expressivepainting #loosepainting #grafikaflora #calligrafikaswatercolors #calligrafikastips #realtimevid #processvid Paper: Cheap Sketchbook Brush: Tokyo Finds Zen brush round no 11 Paint: Shin Han

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🔶️Calligrafikas Tips🔶️ When painting wet on wet it is very important to choose your paper wisely, if you feel that you paint with a lot of moisture definitely choose a sturdy paper like 100% cotton on 300gsm-above. You can still use a student grade paper of 200gsm but you will need to adjust the amount of moisture you put on your paper. A lot of times I started with water wash, put a light pigment on then with almost a dry mixture meaning not too many water in your brush you put that as a second layer more on defining the shapes. In using an angular brush, definitely a lot will find it hard to use, but the trick is to change the angle often. It would help if you familiarize with how the angle of the brush mark strokes differently. #dreweuropeo #calligrafikas #grafikas #artist #watercolorartist #watercolor #watercolorpainting #waterblog #expressivepainting #loosepainting #grafikaflora #calligrafikaswatercolors #calligrafikastips #realtime #realtimevid #processvid Paper: Arches 300gsm Brush: Princeton Elite angular brush 1/2 Paint: Mijello Mission Gold

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By making marks with a light wash of paint then dropping in some pigmented colors without blending or touching again what you marked, just allowing the pigment to bleed into your light wash, it can create interesting tonal value in your painting. Immediately you will have the lightest light (the light wash markings I did first), darkest dark (the secondary markings I did in full pigment) & midtones (the pigment mixture on paper or the natural bleeding of pigments) which creates high contrast in your painting. #dreweuropeo #calligrafikas #grafikas #artist #watercolorartist #watercolor #watercolorpainting #waterblog #expressivepainting #loosepainting #grafikaflora #calligrafikaswatercolors #calligrafikastips #realtime #realtimevid #processvid Paper: Cheap Sketchbook Brush: Rosemary & Co. Travel round no 10 Paint: Shin Han

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🔸Calligrafikas Tips🔸 If you are wondering if you can use a rigger or liner brush to other ways of painting other than lining, here's a simple process vid for you to see that yes you may use it for florals for example or you can even use this for lettering & basically just about anything, you just have to be creative with it. This brush will give you very expressive strokes. If you also want to loosen up or you want to explore more on markings, you may want to try this brush. #dreweuropeo #calligrafikas #grafikas #artist #watercolorartist #watercolor #watercolorpainting #waterblog #expressivepainting #loosepainting #grafikaflora #calligrafikaswatercolors #calligrafikastips #realtime #realtimevid #processvid Paper: Cheap Sketchbook Brush: Escoda Versatil rigger no 4 Paint: Shin Han

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When you just let your pigments mix together on paper they produce gorgeous results so I don't always mix my colors on palette, sometimes I am dropping in pure colors on paper and just see what happens. In this way you can also produce more vibrant paintings & you got to avoid having muddy colors, just don't charge colors with complimentary ones otherwise even if you just let them mix on paper they will produce neutrals or mud colors. #dreweuropeo #calligrafikas #grafikas #artist #watercolorartist #watercolor #watercolorpainting #waterblog #expressivepainting #loosepainting #grafikaflora #calligrafikaswatercolors #calligrafikastips Paper: Cheap Sketchbook Brush: Tokyo Finds Zen Brush round no 11 Paint: Shin Han