One last thank-you note. I have a blue glass vase sitting on my headboard and I thought it might be pretty with daisies and a purple background.
Blue Vase
June 14, 2009 at 5:10 pm (Watercolor)
Tags: blue glass vase, daisy, thank you note
Dragons Are Hard
June 3, 2009 at 8:20 pm (Pencil, Watercolor)
Tags: dragon
A couple days ago I attempted painting a dragon. Whoa. Those things are tough! Not only do you not have a real live model (thankfully), but if you base it off of someone else’s version you feel like you’re cheating! Here’s what it ended up at.
I think I shall transform this blog from a “Project 365″ to just a nice watercoloring blog. The pressure of doing a watercolor a day is just not fitting in to my other priorities.
Thank You 2
June 2, 2009 at 2:45 pm (Pencil, Watercolor)
Tags: light house, lily, thank you note
Here’s part of the second round of watercolored thank you notes. It just dawned on me that it’s a new month! About time to try the carousel horse again.
Practicality
May 29, 2009 at 7:23 pm (Pencil, Watercolor, Watercolor Pencil)
Tags: butterfly, flower, pansy, thank you note
I decided to put my watercoloring to use today and made three thank you notes.
My birthday is very soon and I’ve already gotten a few wonderful presents. Oh, I just remembered one more I need to make a thank you card for! (Good thing I got to thinking about it.) Anyway, special gifts call for special cards.
Pardon the fingers in that last picture. The card didn’t want to lay flat. I’ll have to sandwich it between a couple books or something.
“The Box” painting has officially retired. Working on the same still life like that got to be very dull. I decided to call it good and work on gaining stamina in the future. I haven’t been watercoloring much lately because things have gotten rather busy. It’s something I want to do, but some days it just seems too hard. So, this blog may be a little sporadic in the future. We shall find out together.
Autumn Fairy
May 23, 2009 at 1:14 pm (Watercolor)
Tags: bleeding heart, fairy, fern, mushroom, oak leaf, snail
Please excuse the somewhat inaccurate title of this picture. I’ll leave it to you to imagine whether Bleeding Hearts and fiddlehead ferns are around at the same time as a fallen oak leaf. The fairy’s face gave me all sorts of problems. I really need to work on faces. Especially if I want to be able to illustrate books. Faces are a must.
I left a good section of this painting blank with the idea that it might be fun to copy a poem into there.
Lantana
May 22, 2009 at 11:31 am (Pencil, Watercolor)
Tags: candlestick, Dallas Red, glass, lantana, vase
I finally stopped putting this off! In fact, I did it earlier in the morning instead of waiting to do a rushed one tonight. It’s a sprig of lantana from the pots on the back porch in a beveled glass vase. (Which is actually supposed to be a candlestick, but it makes a nice flower holder.)
If anyone is a flower lover they might be interested to know that the lantana is the “Dallas Red” variety. Very pretty, and it smells great.
A Confession
May 21, 2009 at 7:28 pm (Uncategorized)
I have not, in fact, fallen off the face of the earth. I have just been putting off practicing with my watercolors. This shocking state of events will hopefully be rectified in the near future.
As good point, I not only got one sketch pad, but two! One small enough to fit in my purse for spur of the moment sketches, the other a nice big one for home use. Perhaps even the occasional outing. I’ve used both enough to know that I need more practice.
The thought has occurred to me that it might be fun to get good enough at sketching and watercoloring that I might be able to illustrate children’s books. We’ll see what happens there. In the mean time I need to get back in the painting groove and stick with it!
Viking Ship
May 13, 2009 at 10:01 pm (Gouche, Watercolor)
Tags: camera trouble, free style, Viking ship, World Book
Sorry, the Carved Box still isn’t finished. I sat down to watercolor, took one look at the detail and decided I was too tired to attempt it. This is a free style picture. I didn’t have anything to go by other than an article in a World Book on ships. It gave me the general idea of the dimensions, which I proceeded to butcher. Sorry about the queer reddish cast. The camera was acting up. Apparently this isn’t my day for watercoloring.
The Box 2
May 12, 2009 at 10:32 pm (Watercolor)
Tags: carved box, oil lamp, picture frame, still life
Today was extremely busy, but I did nab a few minutes to work on parts of the box and lamp. I’m so glad the greeny color of the glass base turned out right, although the box is giving me all sorts of problems.
I got a whole bunch of plants to put on our back porch. Hopefully they’ll provide interesting practice material for sketching and painting!
