Art Night Mosaic Paintings, featuring: A HORSIE (Patreon)

I may have mentioned before that I host an Art Night (aka drink & draw & snack & socialize) every Monday night with my friends, where I try to avoid doing "work" art, and just do "play" art.

Lately I've been trying this fun little exercise where I place colors right next to each other on my paper with watercolor, and seeing where it takes me.

This was painted on a block of Fluid watercolor paper, which is absolute trash. Don't be fooled by the pretty front cover. Don't buy this shit unless you want the splotchy "little kid painting" look that you see here.

I decided to use straight black paint on top of this, which is a color I've been brainwashed into never using.

(My professors weren't wrong; you should only use black if you really want a flat black, like this. If you mix your own black, it'll be super rich, so it's worth learning how to do!)

After I did this little exercise, I promptly forgot that the paper is total garbage, and used the same paper for my next practice: a strong silhouette of a horse (I was a horse girl growing up, so I can still draw a horse from memory easy-peasy), filled with fractals of color right next to each other:

This was a super fun experiment! I wanted to flow sections of analogous colors (very similar colors, like blues + purples) into each other to see how it'd look. 

I find this sort of thing really satisfying, so here are a bunch of closeups:

Once I had the horse down, I decided to zero in on Le Season and make some Christmas trees:

I've still been trucking away (no pun intended, he never owned a truck) at my dad's now-belated 70th birthday gift:

Fingers crossed it'll be done before Christmas! I'll show y'all the final cars once they're all done, of course. 

Wish me luck with these last three slick-looking (kinda boring imo) vehicles!!