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akavel@akavel@merveilles.town (2026-08-24 18:49:37)
@ben I long tried to google up some spaceships watercolors, and kept failing. Thank you for sharing and showing me a way to do this! FWIW, my own one attempt from some time ago attached (sorry I don't have a better photo handy)
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Ben Bittner@ben@mastodon.art (2026-08-24 23:40:36)
@akavel thanks! The thing that surprises me is how much color you can put down and have it still read as space. Berkey was an absolute master at that. Look at old sci-fi book covers and space is basically never black!

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akavel@akavel@merveilles.town (2026-08-25 03:46:21)
@ben Thanks! He's not doing watercolors though, no? Hm, but ok, I'm googling him now, and maybe I now understand what you mean - indeed, blue, brown, red, various colors but rarely black - so this aspect could be also done in watercolors! By the way this now reminded me, that since starting this technique (I'm a total amateur), I wondered how one can do night in watercolors - also difficult to find examples on the web, but maybe they'd share a similar idea!