...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…
It seems I may be done with sea foam and water… for now. I saw a photo that inspired me. I know, how could this inspire anyone? But earlier I had seen a photo of yellow maple leaves on the…
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…
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…
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…
Since deciding to do this blog and document the progress of each painting, the thing I have struggled with the most is photography. If you go back to the beginning of this blog, you may notice – I hope –…
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…