Great textures and shapes… Really like the darker tones. The illusion of light comes in the contrast you choose in your tones… so if you want it to be more colorful just make it more transparent and add several layers as flat and consistent as possible

The paints I used here were handmade using pigments from the earth, and honestly each color in the palette just doesn’t have much contrast with the others. They are a luxurious idea and fun to play around with, but much less saturated than my usual palette. I know it doesn’t look like it, but there are many many layers on here already, and I really struggled to get the saturation I was looking for here. …I’ll definitely use them again for more earth-toned subjects… but will most likely use them to just supplement my normal watercolors.