about half of my paintings, but I painted five days in a row, didn't worry about a finished product (for the most part), learned some things, and had fun!
I may redo all my paintings, but in a bigger format, just to see what difference it makes to me, and to see what I've learned about critiquing my own stuff. Painting such small things (3.5" x 5.5") is limiting in some ways, but freeing in others.
So anyway, this is a great blue heron with a snack.
Same stats as the other Challenge paintings:
Watercolor on Canson XL 140-lb watercolor paper.
The first thing I'm going to change is the paper I use. I really, really, REALLY like Arches cold press watercolor paper, so I'm going to stick with it instead of trying to use up the wood pulp papers I still have on hand. I can use them for things other than watercolor.
As a reward for finishing the Challenge, I ordered some tubes of better quality watercolors, so I'll be playing with those.
I've about half finished clearing out a bedroom that I want to use for all my artsy-fartsy-craftsy stuff, and for working jigsaw puzzles (it's a cat-free zone). It's amazing the stuff that can be shoved into a room. But I'm far enough along that I think that in about a week I can start moving furniture in and out and around.
Woo hoo! I'm gonna have a STUDIO!!! It's almost real!
