Do you ever pick up one of your hobbies out of the blue and then feel so enamoured with it you just can't stop?
Last summer I took my first ever watercolor painting class. It was fun, but hard to pump out one painting after another. Also, my fellow students painted these gorgeous pieces that left me feeling a little inadequate.
But last week I pulled out my paints and brushes and thick watercolor paper and just can't seem to get enough of it!
The painting above is my favorite of the three...I'm really into pinwheels lately and I like the way this turned out.
This teapot was the first of the three. I like the red contrasted with the green and the way the shading came out. Shading for me is the hardest part! 
The painting to the right is a first for me. I've never painted a human before. I found a very simple sketch of this man, (I think he looks like "The Thinker") from an art magazine and loved the lines and shadows. It was much easier than I thought it would be. One thing about painting (and writing) is that if I set it aside for a bit and come back to it, things really stand out to me that need to be changed. If I just forge ahead and try to finish it all at once, it seems that I miss subtle changes that would have improved the piece. 
2 comments:
Watercolor sounds like so much fun. You're doing a great job with it too! I know the feeling about picking up a hobby and then just running with it. (I do that way too often, but then hop on to something else). How else are you going to know if you really like something or not?
Thanks! I agree about the hobbies, you do have to TRY them and see what really appeals, don't you? :)
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