I'm experimenting with techniques to better integrate my watercolor and digital workflow. With a couple new brushes and textures, as well as a crisper and simplified line, I start to get really comfortable with this visual language.

My fur baby has a very expressive face. One could also describe it as somewhat urgent and demanding. Or a RBF. And I love that.

My first self-portrait and it is indeed a very honest depiction. I don't mean to look unimpressed or mean necessarily. It's just my German face. Other than the watercolor and paper texture, I particularly enjoy this more muted colour palette. The desaturated look works super well for my taste. It's just interrupted with a more modern highlight for the details in the hair, that are somewhat reminiscent of Hokusai or the more modern version ok ukiyo-e demon slayer.

This portrait more inspired by the 60s has been my way to mourn the recent parting of my adopted grandmother Ernie Herbothe. A kind spirit who cared deeply about the people around her. The more saturated and contrasting colour palette, while maintaining a nostalgic feeling, is more suited to her time and her style. The disappearing lines that leave only her silhouette are a thought about what it is that stays with us, after the parting of a loved one. A fleeting impression, almost as if it was just in the corner of your eye, a feeling will remain and never leave us. Even when we ourselves fade into the nothingness.