testing watercolours

last Saturday i was at the NEC and managed to pick up a water colour set for £19.99. It is the Windsor and Newton Cotman half pan studio set. It has 45 half pans. I have seen it other places with prices ranging from £35-£65...so I think I got a good bargain.

So I wanted to try them out, and after watching a video demo by RHOMANY I decided to try them out along with prismas and Inktense pencils.

Now i had no intentions of blogging this, it was just meant to be a practice piece, but even though there are lots and lots wrong with it, I decided to show you anyway...I mean why not right?

so I quickly drew my girl...I should have reworked her to get her right, but I was too eager to play with the paints...

her shoulders are too big and round, waist too narrow, eyes too big and close together...but i was impatient, so I inked it..

and started colouring with prismas, using watercolour washes over them.

I kept adding layers...

and more layers... i did the hair with Inktense.

more layers... and a wash over the background.

I added more layers to the background, including some mod podge transfers.

added  a transferred word, some bubbles ....a frame and its done...