Joy in Paints

Quick Update

Rebekah — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:01:00 +0000

Just to let everyone know, I have not dropped off the face of the earth in a color coma. Painting a full painting every day got to taking more time then I wanted to spare. I would really, really like to do this again at some point this year. Perhaps for a month.

In the meantime, enjoy your wonderful New Year!

Blue Vase

Rebekah — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:10:10 +0000

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.

Dragons Are Hard

Rebekah — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:20:36 +0000

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

Rebekah — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:45:51 +0000

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

Rebekah — Fri, 29 May 2009 23:23:20 +0000

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

Rebekah — Sat, 23 May 2009 17:14:31 +0000

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

Rebekah — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:31:38 +0000

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

Rebekah — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:28:10 +0000

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!

The Box 3

Rebekah — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:02:18 +0000

Viking Ship

Rebekah — Thu, 14 May 2009 02:01:53 +0000

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.