Well hello! Although I intend to show you some of my fiber work that was completed lately, I thought I would get into the groove of blogging again by sharing a project that I am working on.


I joined World Watercolor Month as a way of learning to paint watercolor, so I will be posting my daily paintings here.

This is the first one. If you are a watercolorist and have any tips or advice, please share! I want to learn. :)

Cheers,

Truth be told, my worktable is a bit messy right now!

Check it out! I have a thing! A thing which makes perfect mitered corners!

So now, I can make my own stretcher bars. :)

This year, because of the popularity of a certain piece (more on that later); I have been very lucky to have been commissioned to make a number of pieces - 7 so far!




These requests have kept me busy in the studio since January - and thankfully, have coincided with an uptick in my desire to work in the studio and an increased interest in developing my art.

But it also means that a new-to-me-technique that I've become very interested in, has had to sit on the backburner.

But this week, I've taken a break, and I've had a little play.  :)

Kit

Is all you need.

Yesterday, Erin posted a comment saying that the background didn't seem like my style.

So I thought I'd post a "behind the scenes". The collector had asked for "something like your birch trees", particularly liking "Winter Birches" and "Winter Birches with Bird"



I sent him some quick mock ups of birches on backgrounds (done out of paper, collage style)


However, the collector wanted a background he described as pinky, purply, or maybe green.




So I sent him pictures of samples painted on tiny canvases (5 x 7")




And then mock ups on the samples:





He eventually chose a *really* pink background.  (You can see the original sample on the top right and the painted full-sized background on the left).

However, once I started laying it out, I plead with the collector to tone down the background. I just didn't like it!


*eep!*

And so the final pic I showed you yesterday, was our compromise. (As was the evergreen - I really didn't want to put it in there!)


And that's how we ended up with "Winter Song". :)

Kit