...watercolor, stuff and nonsense
...watercolor, stuff and nonsense
The title will make sense later. I tend to prefer order and symmetry and have a hard time dealing with messy, overlapping, chaotic shapes. But nature is not always orderly. While there were things I liked about my last seaweed…
I am loving painting another photo of a shell on the beach and inspired about the next beach scene. In a moment of contemplation, I thought, wait? What? Is this all I am going to do? Sand and shells? That’s…
Yes, I have come to hate Koi. Never going to paint another, I keep telling myself. ! It was a bad experience that went on and on and… on too long. And never got better. Time to end the experiment.…
I needed a break from failing at painting koi – and starting to hate watercolor – so I decided to try something. I use masking a lot and I was wondering how it would look to build texture by laying…
At this point I do not know why I wanted to paint another turtle. I was still fascinated by water ripples and reflections and… I don’t know. When you are taking something out of your head and trying to put…
Part two of “here’s what happened”. Like I said in my last post, I haven’t been posting here due to a run of failure. So what? Why is that worth a post? I think I am probably not the only…
It seems that with the few tutorials that I have seen on Youtube and such, that the painter is showing you how to do something that they know how to do well. A few whisks of the brush and a…
Another day, another koi. I am determined to get this right. The last one – obviously – the koi were too small and got lost. So let’s make the koi and lily pads bigger, shall we? I found a photo…
I started out with hope. I will figure this out. I told myself So yes, another koi. Doing small fish amongst the lily pads is so not working for me so I decided to try something I have done recently…
It’s easy to ask, why do you keep painting something you are so bad at? I don’t know. Curiosity? The challenge? The urge to learn? I think the truth is… cussedness. Being ornery. And pride. I have to admit pride.…