ANIMAL AND WILDLIFE CHALLENGE FEB/MARCH 2026

[Donna T]

Spectacular fish, Joy, and I love the background!

 

[LizC]

Joy, the fish watercolor turned out wonderful, I like how the colors in the background blend without any hard lines, well done!

 

[Grapes]

Joy, adding to my previous comment: your painting is stunning!!
I'm amazed of your talent and skill with the animals and the fish paintings!

The past days I've been finishing old landscape paintings with hopes to finally being able to finish them and although I have two animal challenge paintings started I still need few more days to finish them. Happy painting everyone!

 

[LizC]

Here's my watercolor version of the lion cub, I'm not that happy with how it turn out and I forgot to scrape in the whiskers when I photographed it.

 

[Joy]

Liz, that is beautiful and very soft, natural looking fur. I didn't even notice the whiskers were missing, but you can add them with white paint or white CP.

 

[LizC]

Thanks, I thought the opposite, that the brushstrokes have hard edges with no soft blending between strokes. What's CP?

 

[Grapes]

Liz, excellent lion cub! I do like it a lot. The colors are lovely and he's looking at you with intense and cute eyes.

 

[Joy]

Liz, CP = colored pencil. You can also use a fine liner pen (like Posca or Uni-ball Signo) that is waterproof to quickly draw in whiskers. I agree that they can look very natural when scratched in, but I don't seem to have much luck with doing it at the appropriate time of dryness.

 

[Enyaw]

Great depiction Liz.

 

[Donna T]

That cub looks quite furry to me, Liz. Beautiful work!

 

[LizC]

Thank you everyone, Joy, while I was looking at gel pens reviews, a lot of people are using the white ones in their watercolors. I think that would be a good alternative to scratching out white, which by the way I'm not that good at either.