I’m participating in a challenge for the month of June: paint a watercolor every day. Here is my Day 1 effort: a lily. Part of the challenge is to paint without an underlying sketch or drawing. Oh dear. We’ll see how that goes. I didn’t wait quite long enough for the flower paint to dry before I added in the light blue background. Better luck next time, right?
#30x30DirectWatercolor2018
I recently came across the term Direct Watercolor from a blog post by Marco Taro Holmes. Direct Watercolor means painting in watercolor without an underlying sketch or drawing. I thought I’d give it a try, so here is my first effort. I’m pretty happy that I can recognize it as a pitcher.
My online sketch and watercolor class is over, so I’m heading off on my own. I bought a box of 50 Strathmore watercolor cards.
Now that I see it online, it doesn’t look dark enough in the lower left area. Somehow I haven’t learned to see those types of details until I post it to my blog. This was the first watercolor card I mailed. One down, 49 to go.
I specifically bought the two heart-shaped macaroons with painting in mind. I looked at the heart shapes, the little ledges that peeked out, the darkness of the chocolate along the bottom edge, the two colors of the raspberry macaroon.
I couldn’t get any of that to come across in my watercolor painting. I have so much to learn.
I had a much easier time eating them than painting them.
They tasted good.
The candle came with it.
National Cupcake Day was February 29th and my online sketch/watercolor instructor challenged her students to celebrate it.
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