I have settled into ink and watercolour paintings that tend to lean on the illustrative style. However, I would like to move away from this and paint more “realistic”/less illustrative paintings. Either way, I find my paintings lack freshness and also my shadows are always too dark looking and often “muddy” or don’t look believable.

I do not paint as often as I wish, but either way I know it’s something I struggle with even when I do paint more regularly. I’m either too hesitant with the paint early on and it’s too watery, which then results in my trying to over do it with the colour but then it comes out more opaque or over worked. I will post some recent paintings I’ve done. Again, I would like to move away from this style or at least have more of a freshness to my work. Hope this makes sense