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Continuous Line Drawing

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Lesson 3 of my online sketch and watercolor class is an exercise in continuous line drawing. Once we start, we don’t pick up our pen until we’ve finished the drawing. There’s no preliminary drawing in pencil, either. I did practice once before drawing on the watercolor paper.

I started out with one object, just to see how it went.

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Then I used all three peppers. Fortunately, the peppers were on sale at the grocery store.

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Once I started painting, I saw I missed some definition, especially on the red pepper.

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The bonus lesson was to use our non-dominate hand to draw. Now there’s an adventure! It’s a pin cushion in the shape of an easy chair. I didn’t want to paint it black, so I decided to use purple instead.

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Three Fruits Three Times

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Fruit is the first lesson for an online watercolor class, Sketching and Watercolor Journal Style, by Jane LaFazio. This is the first watercolor class I’ve taken as well as my first online class. (At least, no other online classes come to mind right now. I love taking classes, so I might be mis-remembering this detail.)

I like the colors best in the first one, but the pear is out of proportion. The pear size is better in the second one, but the lemon ended up a bit angular. The third one is pretty good, but I still like the colors in the first one best.

First effort. Pear too small.

First effort. Pear too small.

Second effort. Lemon too angular.

Second effort. Lemon too angular.

Third effort.

Third effort.

The subjects. Jalapenos are a fruit, botanically speaking.

The subjects. Jalapenos are a fruit, botanically speaking.

The lemon and pear are fake fruits; the jalapeno is real. As soon as I finished the third watercolor, I cut it up and added to a soup.

Lies I Tell Myself

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It seems I’m not yet old enough not to deceive myself. What lies do you tell yourself?~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I don’t have two (or three) of the ingredients for this recipe. It should taste the same without them.

I’m putting my keys in a different place than where they usually go. I’ll remember where they are.

I’ll eat only a little ice cream.

That’s a great story idea I had. I don’t need to write it down.

I don’t need the address. I’ll recognize the place when I get there.

I don’t need the instructions. How hard can it be?

I’m too tired to finish [task] tonight. I’ll get up really early tomorrow morning and finish it before I have to leave.

I’ll always remember where I took this photo, the names of all the people, the exact date it was taken.

I’ll remember my new logon and password.