Yet Another
As I have mentioned before, I frequently work on several watercolors at a time. Things need time to dry or time to ponder. I paint using Arches 300# watercolor paper well strapped to a drafting board such as this. These…
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Just another shell
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…
So Here’s What Happened
My devoted fans – all like 3 of you – may have noticed that I have not posted here in a LONG time. Something happened. First, I do have to say that it can be very hard for me to…
And This is Where it All Went Wrong
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…
Why Post About Failure?
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…
Yeah, no.
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…
Practice might make Perfect some day
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…
One of these days
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…
You might think…
After all these failures and learning lessons that it could only get better from here. You might think so. I might hope so. But no. Little steps after little steps. So I am getting better at figuring out how to…
Just one more
Just one more and I can master painting koi, I told myself. One problem with all these stumbles and pretty crappy paintings is that it has pretty much ceased to be fun. And I do this for fun! Yes, it…