My daughter and I realized that we were both having trouble getting motivated to work on our watercolor painting projects, so we agreed to hold each other accountable to a plan. I haven’t completed yet what I said I’d work on, but got a good start.
The Italy Watercolor workbook – I started Lesson 2 back in January and was so discouraged with the first “draft” that I set it down. I worked on the second one today and am not any happier with it, but have accepted the fact that skills are not magically transmitted, but are learned over time.
The far left is, of course, the artist’s rendition. The middle one is my first try. I think I regressed, if possible. By the time I finished the second one, I had an unreasonable hatred of that shadow under the flower pot – everything I did made it look worse. As long as I’m confessing unreasonable hatreds, I’m not terribly fond of how the brick area on the right turned out, either – which wasn’t in the original photograph, by the way. The artist decided to put it in for interest. Sigh. Maybe the next lesson will be better.
I also started some watercolors from photos that I had taken out of my mom’s daily planners from years ago.
I’ve been working more on the ladybug, but it’s also harder than I thought. I have an ever escalating admiration for those who can do this and make it seem so effortless.
So the adventure continues!
The font has changed again and I don’t know why. I was hoping that my problems with the font and the formatting from yesterday were gone, but here they have reared their ugly heads again. It’s hard to be so un-savvy in the tech world sometimes. Still, this might publish just fine and you’ll wonder what I was talking about. One can always hope.
I’ll probably delete this in the morning.
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