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Day 11 - this little bug ate a hole in the leaf, and then peeked out.

"Someone has been eating the leaves on your tomato plants...huh. I wonder who...have you checked in with that butterfly over there. HE looks a bit sketchy..."

This sleeping bunny and bird are not at all reflective of how tired I was yesterday when I had to decide what to paint. :)

*yawn*

Soooooo, yesterday was quite a day (bygones!) and I couldn't paint. So I did days eight and nine today.

On the Facebook page for World Watercolor Month, someone said the other day that newbies like me needed to put their big girl panties on try a portrait. You know me - always up for trying anything (after all, like my fiber work, it's just fiber and paint, not brain surgery, and I'm not afraid to make mistakes or show them to you) so I decided to try one today.

Obviously, I royally screwed up the hand on the right - I tried to fix it, but the paper kept pilling, so I guess it's toast and unfixable; but otherwise, for a first try I'm pretty chuffed with it.

The bunny, "Day 8" (although technically also Day 9), was me trying to figure out how the medium works again. I saw somewhere (YouTube perhaps?); that if you "draw" the outline first with water and then apply a really wet paint, it will follow the water line. And it DID. lol

It was kind of a cool thing to watch, but I'm not sure what the application for that might be. (It will probably become clear at some point in the future). His proportions are off (or maybe he's just a very FAT bunny), and his smile is lopsided, but I think he's pretty cute just the same.

So, a good Day 9.

See you tomorrow!

Hey check it out! I made a watercolor that actually looks like a watercolor! And it still looks like "me".

I may be starting to get the hang of this thing!

(Of course, in 24 hours I'll probably be posting my dismal failure as a result of my hubris.)

But tonight - we dance!!!!! :)

I've been hinting to BSP over the last couple of weeks that I really need a new bike, and it sure would be great to get one for my birthday.

Well, I came home from work today to find a shiny, sexy, yellow hybrid waiting for me in the back yard, even though my birthday isn't until September.

After riding around Leslieville and Riverdale like a banshee for hours (lol), I was too tired to put a lot of effort into Day 6.

The bike is superfantastic though. :)

You know what I just realized? I have been painting for five days and I only did a tree on day FIVE. That has got to be some kind of record for me. lol

Of course, I've been relying heavily on blues, as is my wont. I think tomorrow, no matter what I end up doing, I'm going to stay away from blue*.

So, today's little experiment. Well, although it's bragging to say so, I've got to tell you that I made this stunning background. Seriously, it was so gorgeous that I almost just posted the background and called it good. But then I decided it needed a tree on it (well, that was it's purpose); so I plunked the tree down and then completed obscured it. Alas.

This one, once again, I was trying to push the water around with my brush and a teensy bit of color (so unlike my acrylic work on fabric which is all about layering on thick swaths of color); although after I completed 10 - 12 greens, yellows, blues, reds and browns for the leaves in that tree, you'd never know that I had only used a "little' color.

Anyway. Here it is. Day Five.

This is EXHAUSTING. lol

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! :)

*Pide - is a Turkish take on Pizza. It's something like pizza dough, stretched out into a long oval; the fillings are put in a line down the middle, and then the edges are folded over. They do sell some typically Western fillings to appeal to those without adventurous palettes, but where they really shine is when they fill to their tastes. Ground lamb and mint and other yummy things, tender vegetables, seasonings and feta cheese, SO DELICIOUS. And they come with wedges of fresh lemon, raw onion rings, hot peppers and curly parsley. If you add those things to your selection it's even better! Wait. I'm hungry now... :)

Day 4 and I say, "meh". lol

I really like the background in this one, but I just could NOT get the bird right.

On the other hand, it took years before I got good at textile painting - and this is only day 4.

Patience, Grasshopper.

:)

Here is day 3.

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...

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