...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…
At least for now. It is rare that I finish a painting and think, “That’s good. I am happy with it”. So I am savoring this! Anyway, I can’t find the reference photo I used. It was a green turban…
As noted in my last post, I usually work on several paintings at a time. And yes, I get obsessed with something and paint it over and over again until I get it “right” – that is until I am…
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.…
Odd things inspire me. I saw this illustration by J.R.R. Tolkien (yes, he could do everything well) and I wanted to try to do “Tolkien Clouds”. I read The Hobbit as a kid and Tolkien’s illustrations, to me, were fine…
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…
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…
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…