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I am bad with titles, I AM SORRY! I need a compendium of pre written phrases so I am not reliant on my brain when titling stuff.
Here is the soft watercolor I was working on these last few days.
I added a pic I took with my phone of the finished piece, because I feel like there is a slight difference between original, scan and photographs. That is one of the big problems with traditional art.
This one took longer than expected because I got caught up it the background. To get the values worked out better I worked with watercolor first and then added colored pencils and gouache. Gouache mainly for the flowers in the front because I was messy with the watercolor washes and since watercolor is translucent I wouldn't have been able to do the blades of grass properly.
You can see the steps from sketch to the end in the progress pics. I use masking fluid on the bodies so I can do some proper watercolor backgrounds with loads of watery washes.

If you have any more questions, feel free to ask! The heat is making my brain mushy so I am not the best at writing descriptions ^^

I hope you are doing well. It is crazy how fast July was over again. I had so many plans...
Ah well, here is to August and me hopefully finishing lots of new work.

<3 Sarah

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Juzu

This is so beautiful!! I love it!

SarahLumenHeine

Thank you so much! I really like how it turned out. Adding some different mediums helped a lot and I will keep that in mind for the next traditional piece.

Rhys Moon

How do you make sure the masking liquid doesn't rip the paper? I always have trouble with that when taking it off:<

SarahLumenHeine

I actually had to try different liquids. There was a blue one that did exactly this and it was super annoying. I use a white one that dries clear by Schmincke right now. It takes a bit of experimenting though because it also depends on the paper. It is a really annoying process, but I recommend to test it on scrap paper before using it on the illustration. Ripping off your painted stuff is very infuriating XD