A quick sketch of a bit of garden, done with ballpoint pen and watercolour some months ago - the jacarandas are full of leaves now - to say I'm still here. After all the intense activity of the workshop and the Stations, I've hit a slump! I've been arranging and re-arranging my watercolours (it's called procrastinating) to make them easily transportable for walking and sketching, and managed to get a little tin with six colours, a waterbrush, small sketchbook and a pencil into an old make-up bag tied around my waist - cunningly hidden under my T-shirt so nobody tries to remove it in the hope that it contains untold wealth. I did this little 10 minute sketch yesterday at the dam - found I'd packed the
wrong little moleskine - a plain notebook instead of the watercolour one. Oh well, will get it right sometime!
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Belles et paisibles peintures...
Hi Cathy. So glad you are back! You know you have a nice blog when people - like me - are waiting for your next post! And what a lovely one it is too. I love both sketches, but particularly the tree! I have found it a problem trying to sort out a take away 'sketching kit'. I always seem to take either too much or not enough! I haven't quite got it right yet. One thing I plan to invest in soon is a good watercolour brush The ones I have are awful and I have been told it makes such a difference.
'Assembling a tiny perfect paintset' ranks high on a list of constructive procrastination possibilities -- good things that would otherwise remain undone if you didn't have a slump from time to time. And the result is a really lovely sketch, even in the 'wrong' moleskin!
What a great idea for portable paint! And doesn't matter about the wrong moleskine, the painting turned out really well!
I love the top watercolor so much! It just looks like a place I would want to be on vacation or to relax.
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