Guess what, guess what? I sold my first watercolor! :)

 

I've never sent a 12 x 12 framed piece before, so it was a bit of a struggle finding a box, but then I remembered the pide* place at the top of our street uses plain white pizza boxes.

 

I brought the piece over to them and they were quite interested in helping me find an appropriately sized box; finally we determined that a 16 inch box was the best size, and they gave it to me for free.

 

So then I put it in it's glassine sleeve, bundled it up in bubble sheets and tucked it into firmly packed papers. And now it's on its way.

 

I never thought I'd be selling my watercolors!

 

Hurray! :)

 

 

After yesterday's post, I realized when looking at it, that I wasn't taking advantage of the properties of watercolor paint. I was treating it like it was fabric, resulting in a painting that looked very much as if I had made it out of textile.

So today, I decided to begin to learn how to use the "water" portion of watercolour.

I feel like my execution isn't up to my expression. I had a LOT of trouble with that little bear, and would have preferred a more realistic looking watercolour-y bear. lol I don't know if you know what I mean, but *I* know what I mean!

Anyway - tomorrow's another chance to try again. :O)

Until then...

So, at least in this one, the moon is a little better. I wanted to do another hare, dancing under the moon in a field, but my beloved spouse wanted me to do some birch trees, so here we are. :)

See you tomorrow with another one! (this one I finished just under the wire at 11:55 p.m.!)

 

 

I have workups on 5 pieces laid out, piles of sketches and reference photographs, fabrics from my class last week, boxes of beads, embroidery threads and rovings, 3 different sewing machines and a couple of watercolour paintings resting on my desktop easel. It is MESS-Y!

 

But this one is calling my name, asking to be finished already.

 

"June, baby, June. I'll get to you in June!"

 

Meanwhile, it's back to those layouts for me. :)