I started the Lazy Artist Initiative to get me motivated to do more watercolor painting. As people have commented on these posts, I’ve promised to send them small watercolor paintings in the mail (although wisely, I’ve never promised any particular time frame – I’m reserving the right to exercise procrastination).
For my friend Lori, I began to plan to do a travel-related watercolor, since she and her husband travel a fair amount. In fact, why don’t I do something related to Italy, was my next brainstorm – she’s been there a few times. I started looking up and saving photos on the internet that I could try to paint and then…
EUREKA! I remembered that I’d done a series of watercolor paintings a couple years ago while going through a Watercolor Italy instruction book. So instead of doing a new watercolor, I merely showed her the set of paintings I’d done back then and had her pick one.
I know what you’re thinking – this didn’t really do anything to solve the Lazy Artist problem. But I submit to you that actual work was involved in the original painting, the internet research, the FaceTime call with Lori and scanning the painting into my computer. So I think I can call it a day without shame. Now I need to pop it in the mail.
I’ll probably swim down the lazy river in the morning, blog post in hand.
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