In search of consistency
This “blog” ((why am I putting “blog” in quotes? doesn’t make sense, blogs are real) (off to a great start!)) - I’m starting this blog as a way to make evidence TO MYSELF that I am making art work. My goal is to basically keep doing THIS, making posts ideally every week documenting my work. This is an accountability exercise. I’m writing this next sentence directly to my own self: I’m making art every week regardless of inspiration. I’m throwing out inspiration as an impetus to start - I mean inspiration is great but I’m going more for a “The War of Art” year as opposed to making stuff when divine light bulbs go off. Anything I post is directly from the current week. Something I made or am making, something I bought for art purposes, or something I’m watching or reading for art. Wheeeeeeee! -🧑🏻
Playing around with water color. Trying to make good color combinations based on intuition and increasing understanding of how the colors in my palatte interact.
I picked this up at Lost and Found Crafts here in Olympia yesterday. Not sure what I’ll use it for. I loved the colors and just generally am inspired by “tapes” of fabric. At very least I can use it to wrap gifts. Might use it for a necklace idea I have…
Henry sat down to paint with me for about 5 minutes last night. I got him a Mondo Llama kids set of watercolors at the Goodwill (brand new). I told him to drop water onto each color to “warm them up”. He put quite a bit of water on the palette and then was done painting almost at once. I told him to lay paper towels over the top to sop up the water and when he peeled them off it looked like this, which I loved.
New bed-size quilt in the works. It looks very yellow in the picture but in actuality coloring is much more like the image with stitching. About 30% done with the main hand-stitching of the quilt sandwich. Mulling over border ideas.
I clipped the above image from a magazine at one point. It’s a colored pencil art work. I’m copying it with water color. I don’t know the original artist. This is mainly how I teach myself to paint. I make copies and then give them away or hang them up in my house.
One OOPS™️ of the week. Painting with water colors is my spiritual work because sometimes you have to be patient and I generally struggle with patience.