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Hello, how are you? I've been planning on getting back on painting watercolor, especially painting urban architecture, as I remembered the last urban sketching and painting was from last year, which is a while ago, and I like to draw on my 100% cotton watercolor, so I didn't realize that drawing using a fineline pen is not that good, but I still managed to do it hahaha. It took me hours to do it, plus the time I practice. I was supposed to draw the line art with a pencil, but I am crazy, so I do the pen LOL. -----

Materials I Used:

Watercolor Paper
Fineline Pigment Pen
Watercolor Paints
Paintbrush

Jar with Water
Tissue
White Pen
Dish Plate

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Let's Paint!

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In a watercolor, I drew the line art, just trusting my own eyes and hand, LOL. I use a pigment pen for this part. Make sure to use those so as not to smudge the pen line art. -----

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And then I squeeze out all the color I needed to not make myself get stress I use only primary colors with cool and warm colors. -----

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And I start layering the base color, which is a combination of cool yellow and cool blue. ------

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For this part, I painted the darker area. keep layering. I just follow and do not follow what the color from the reference. -----

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I keep returning to painting and then adding more pen line art to the drawing because sometimes I always forget some part of the reference, so that is why using pigment pen is the best when using watercolor, because the pen will not smudge at all. -----

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The pen keeps stressing me out here, so I cannot and cannot control how thick the pen is here LOL. But still manage to do it. -----

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For this part, I intensify the shadows or darker parts of the painting to make it look dimensional. ------

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And then to add a highlight to the painting, I am going to use a white pen. And I made the background blue because the restaurant is kind of on the water, and I wanted the sky blue, so I did it LOL. -----

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Here is a close look at the painting. -----

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I tried different parts to take a photo of the painting, but I always fail. ----- ![26.JPG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/leannwithdoublen/EoiXZEvp1VJNiEPUc9jwtn7EQfCVW32qvbBeFqNBCMN7iGs38Kmxd7k5geroRMHo1te.jpeg) I really enjoy painting urban architecture. I might do this again in the future. I hope you like it :D ----

Thank you for visiting, see you on my next blog. :D Please take care of your mental health as well. I hope you are okay today :))

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Urban sketching #20