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Friday, May 17, 2013
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Day 71- Taking a break
Day 71- Taking a break
watercolor 7,5 x 11 inches
Nothing really worked today, I spent the morning feeling restless.
As much as I love these watercolors and the oils portraits I am working on, I still feel like there is
something else I should be doing as well. I feel like I need a few days only to dream about things. Imagine possibilities. I have a few things in my mind. All I need is time, and the courage to fail
repeatedly.
Sweet dreams-
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Day 70-In the studio late-
Day 70- In the studio late-
watercolor 7,5 x 11 inches
I am happily drawing on my phone these days. Which is a double joy because
finally I don't have to carry half a ton of sketchbooks and pencils and erasers
and sharpeners in my bag with me always. I just need my (pink) phone and
matching (pink) (I know, totally sickening) stylus. Tricky, but fun, and so much more
elegant!
Hugs-
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Day 69- Single white tulip at the window-
Day 69- Single white tulip at the window
watercolor 7,5 x 11 inches
How do you paint a bush full of pink flowers? That's what I asked myself and so I placed a vase with a single white tulip in front of the window. The front yard is so busy these days with everything in full bloom, I realized one way of painting it would be to focus on something simple, neutral, and with a distinct shape. I think it worked. I am sure there are other ways of doing this as well, and I hope to try them too!
Hugs-
Monday, May 13, 2013
Day 68- Procrastinating with parentheses-
Day 68- Procrastinating with parentheses
watercolor 7,5 x 11 inches
This week I have to breeze through these posts, and daily watercolors, in order to finish the commissioned portraits I have been working on. Which kind of sucks, because I just lifted my eyes from my keyboard, and a deep grey cloud has filled a third of my window, and everything looks gloomy and brooding, and there is a pale, pink rhododendron in full bloom in our garden waiting to be painted. (and I am really stuck with my portrait right now, which I really should start all over again, which in turn means I have to throw out an expensive wooden panel, and that definitely sucks)(but I should really get on with things one way or another instead of writing things in parentheses)
(and then I think: but do I know how to paint at all?)(and then I tell myself, OMG, you are such a drama queen, just paint) (and then suddenly there's lightning followed by bababoom thunder...) (for real)(do you think it's a sign?)
Hugs-
Friday, May 10, 2013
Day 67- The list I need the most-
Day 67- A list of things done-
watercolor 7,5 x 11 inches
I have this list and that list as, most of us do, but days still go by as fast trains in the fog. If I just cross things out I still can't remember what I did, and it's like I have just crossed away the day I 've just lived.
So I have found I need to make one more list , a list of the things done each day. At the end of the day this is the most important, comforting and beautiful list.
Hugs-
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Day 66- Thinking about Matisse when I looked at the front yard-
Day 66- Thinking about Matisse when I looked at the front yard-
watercolor 7,5 x 11 inches
I thought, with some sadness admittedly, that Matisse would have absolutely delighted in digital
painting and drawing. He would have had loads of fun with a stylus and an ipad, I am so sure of it.
Don't you think?
Hugs-
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Day 65- When the bones are good-
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Day 64- His black socks , my scarf-
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