Hi everyone,

This is my first post here. I appreciate the creation of this place where landscape watercolor is the main thing, as not many places focus on this medium. I was drawn to landscape painting through a book by David Bellamy since decade ago and I am still learning how to improve mine. I found Oliver's channel on YT and instantly liked his works, style, and the way he interprets the landscape, it's similar to David's, but unique and interesting in many ways.

I've never had a chance to discuss to any fellows about this, but in my opinion, landscape in watercolor requires a special translation in comparison to other mediums such as oil, gouache etc. I am not talking about composition, although it's a part of. Perhaps, it's something to do with watercolor being a transparent medium allows a more subtle value and saturation range, for example a blue sky in watercolor is almost always lighter, brighter than the one done in oil. Softness and lost and found edges are the main charm of watercolor. The most importance is perhaps the decisiveness in execution, but at the same time "let-it-flow" is needed. Watercolor is both charming and terrifying to me. Maybe I am forever a student of it.

I've been going back and forth between many styles, of this or that artist. Do you think one is better off with one style? or am I overthinking and deluding myself that I can paint in different styles?

Here are my works, most of them are small sketches. At one time, I was sure I like to paint tighter like Oliver and David but recently I want to be looser in the black and white work at bottom, as I've been captured by Chien Chung Wei's work.