January Jellyfish Day 1-3

Last year I started seriously doing one painting a day giving myself a monthly challenge series, in January I did jellyfishes. So I'm going to throw my brush at it again this year, only this time I wanted to try and do it traditionally rather than digitally! So far is been fun/frustrating since watercolor is a faaar less forgiving medium than acrylic or oil.

I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit just how long it took me to complete this first one, it literally took me around 6-7 hours. Where as digitally it only took me 3 hours on my first day, I learned many times that there is indeed no undo button! This is the stalked jellyfish  info and ref found  here.

I did the deadly box jellyfish for day 2 and it was somewhat easier but deceptively complicated. Its mainly a series of flat washes, with acryla gouache used to do the jellyfish at the very end. I was shocked to finish this one in 3 hours! So some progress was made :)

Spotted jellyfish was my study for today, and it's definitely my favorite! I tried to apply the techniques I learned/used in the first 2 but I critically overlooked using frisket. I painted this one negatively and did the speckles with acryla gouache, but if I could do it again I would have used frisket, took waaay longer than it should have around 3 hours. 

Anyone who wants is welcome to join me on the #januaryjellyfish challenge, or share whatever art challenges you're doing this year.