Watercoloring These Days
In August I followed a drawing book and did one drawing lesson a day for 30 days. I would sit down and just draw for half an hour to an hour when my two boys napped. If you know me, you’d know how much I love a good nap. However, spending a little time on drawing was very calming and soothing—more so than taking a long nap. I didn’t have a plan in place for September so often in the afternoon, I’d be just working on my to-do list items. It was still good to complete my other errands but I just felt that I was missing something.
There came the Mesa Art Center Snail Mail Creative Catalysts Project and I thought it would be nice to try a small watercolor piece as my contribution. I did two in one day and I had so much fun. I hadn’t done watercoloring for a while so I thought, there gotta be some kind of short daily lesson books on watercoloring and it might be fun to do watercoloring this month.
So I found this book 15-Minute Watercolor Masterpieces: Create Frame-Worthy Art in Just a Few Simple Steps by Anna Koliadych. Perfect! I’m just gonna follow along. There are more than 30 lessons in the book so it will take me more than a month to finish the book but I’m ok with that. Who knows if I will fall in love with watercolor afterwards and just keep going for a while.
Maybe it’s because I don’t think I am an expert on painting or drawing at all—I just cannot draw human faces well somehow—I feel much more free to draw and paint. I’m just enjoying the process and when the end result is not as good as I expected, I can easily say—ooops, that didn’t work—and quickly move on.
I definitely need to do this with my photos these days. The better I got, the more I want for myself and I quiet often forget to just have fun and create for myself. Who cares? Right? Especially that I am taking photos for my family, I’m pretty sure that they wouldn’t come back at me after decades to question me why I missed that one shot somewhere or my photos were not as perfect.
Anyways, so here are my watercoloring stuff these days.
