The paint was still wet when I snapped this picture. “The road less traveled” does not describe the past 6 weeks of my life, that’s for sure. It’s been one trip after another. I’m looking forward to a little respite in the in the next couple weeks.
Category: watercolors
the Blue Ridge
I ended up really loving how this piece came out. I framed it and it’s hanging in my guest room. You can have a copy, too, if you like:
It also lends itself shockingly well to throw pillows, bags, and chiffon shirts. 
the blue period
Apparently most artists go through a blue period. It’s because blue is such a wonderful color. So much depth and feeling and warmth and comfort and richness and….you get the idea.
Also, that black-like color? I mixed that. On purpose. Progress!
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.
The beach
Tried painting some beach scenes with my watercolors. Man, color mixing is a real art form. I’m much more familiar with acrylics, and I have a bajillion colors to choose from. Very rarely do I need to do anything more complicated than tinting the colors. Time to grow as an artist!
These are scenes from my favorite beach on Cape Cod.
Also, rocks are hard. (haha)
