Zebra

Watercolors still mystify me. Every time I think I’m starting to get the hang of it, I realize that color mixing is still so, so far outside my comfort zone. I mean, mixing red, blue and yellow to get brown, on purpose. I haven’t done that outside my color wheel project yet. I need to carry my color wheels around with me everywhere to help me figure out what I’m doing.

The zebra is a project I did during the Super Bowl, the swatches on the right are something my mother in law was working on, which I just enjoy staring at.

I am enjoying this learning, though.

Watercolors

Made a color wheel with watercolors for the first time ever.

I had art books when I was a kid–lots of them, actually–but never an art class. It was only after college that I decided to make a concerted effort to get better at drawing.

My first move was to buy a coffee table book of Da Vinci’s sketches. That helped. Mostly just buckling down and practicing at all helped.

My mother-in-law is a painter and is offering friendly classes out of her home now. I think I’m going to learn a lot.

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