Quote for the day...

What art offers is space...a certain breathing room for the spirit. ~John Updike

Monday, April 07, 2014

Learning to use watercolor...


I have never been able to sing. Has nothing to do with this post, but thought I should put that out there. No matter how much I try, I don't think I can "learn" to sing. I sound like a cat in a dryer. Not going to happen. I have never been able to draw. This is why I have loved using rubber stamps. However, lately I have been playing around with watercolor. I love this medium and want to get better at it along with simple drawing. Unlike my failed singing, there is something so freeing about even trying this. The first and third photo are what I would call "scribble flowers". The second one is just a little exercise in painting flowers freehand. I got the tips & instructions for those flowers from a website: http://annikalikes.blogspot.com/2013/03/watercolor-tutorial-and-giveaway.html   I love it when an artist is so generous with their knowledge. The flowers in the second photo were painted using regular tube watercolors. The other flowers were painted using a combination of those same paints, Derwent Inktense blocks and Distress inks.







1 comment:

Unknown said...

You are just too talented woman!! You need to quit your day job and do your hobbies full time!! Pat