Okay so I suck at water colors (I am working on it - I miss the ctrl+z and save as comands of photoshop) but here is one I did a while back. the whole thing took maybe 15min -20 min, but was extremely fun...

Van Gogh student quality watercolors on 9x12 Canson Cold pressed 140 paper

http://www.steeldolphin.com/watercolor/watercolor3.jpg

very cool. it reminds me of ash on army of darkness with the chainsaw looking thing onthe left arm and the gun on the back :)

firstly.
i adore the bacground, the sky, so many different strokes, and tones, and it looks wonderful.
i love that little cloud, light patchy thing in the middle.
the figure, loses its self somewhat though.
it would, be cool, if you tightend him up a little, bring him more in focus.
but other than that its nice. :)

Yeah there needs more to be done here. On my next piece like this I am going to add pen and ink and see how that works. :)

Some more:

Here are some more very quick watercolor studies.

http://www.steeldolphin.com/watercolor/watercolor7.jpg

This one was done as a monochrome study (Paynes Gray)

http://www.steeldolphin.com/watercolor/watercolor8.jpg

Trying to figure out how to do skies....this medium is really weird to work with. I am going to need alot more work with it to build up my confidence, but its fun. :)

not too fond of the first one, and i can;t figure out why, i think that maybe the sky and land dont seem to connected??
maybe the land shadows should be bluer??
then second one is great, i love the sky

i like the "dirty" aspect and the stylization of the portrait and the bleakness of the bottom landscape. its been years since i've used watercolors and i have to say great job.

Thanks for the comments guys. I am excited to eventually try a much more serious painting and possibly use some gouache but I am going to finish of the pad of watercolor paper I bought first and work out my 'bugs' first.

I found the Tate Book on Thomas Girtin very helpful in seeing what can be accomplished in watercolor (at least in the style I feel watercolors are best suited to)

Cheers.

nice work SD. Is the second one inspired from the gunslinger? It just reminds me of it when I look at it. Good work mate!