Day 72- Lucy behing the flowers-

Day 72- Lucy behind the flowers-

watercolor 7,5 x 11 inches

 

Sometimes you feel an idea before you think it. Sometimes you feel the idea

for many years before you can articulate it. Don't you think so?

 

Happy weekend-

 

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-

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-

 

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-

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-

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-

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-

Day 65- When the bones are good-

 

Day 65- When the bones are good

watercolor 7,5 x 11 inches

 

This was a 'reject', but as I was walking into my studio I caught a glimpse of it with

the corner of my eye, and saw that 'the bones were good', and it was salvaged after some

more layering of color.

 

Hugs-

Day 64- His black socks , my scarf-

 

Day- 64  His black socks, my scarf.

watercolor 7,5 x 11 inches

 

I didn't  paint this today. I was out with Rea this evening, at the Opera.

(because I am a lucky mom)

 

Hugs-