Kitchen Queen

Bought a big block of watercolour paper for the new year, but haven't actually been painting watercolours a lot, lately. The unfortunate thing is that I have to relearn the "touch," and the first few paintings are crummy, unless you luck into something.

The problem with this paper is that it's pretty big, and so the larger the paper, the more prone you are to making mistakes. I can cut it in half of course, and it's not bad paper. Also, I don't mind doing one or two bum pictures, if I can get into it, and make the rest not so bad. It's a challenge to me with something large to fill in the entire picture area, with a colour scheme that works, not to mention drawing and a subject that I like. Also, no horrible errors. Watercolour is still a real high wire act, unless you plan obsessively, which I don't like to do. (and even then, you can mess it up)

This present picture I sort of abandoned, but it doesn't look too bad. A little rough in finish, which in part is due to the paper. But that's me, I'm rough, even when I'm trying to be meticulous.

I hope this post's not all not so shorthanded that nobody else can understand it. I went to the Montreal Blogger's monthly get together last Wednesday, and they thought I should write about personal things, such as my cutting my hair and shaving off the beard (my mouth looks much smaller now, and my lips look like little naked worms that twitch a lot. I haven't seen my chin for 4 years, and am worried now about incipient jowls.)

Now, see? That's why I don't write about personal stuff here. Not to mention my work, though that's gotten interesting. It's still going to be sketches, and the occasional observation based on them. I could be doing smart things such as putting up links which will increase my traffic, but instead I've got all these rules I'm trying to stick with as to my blogging practice (not planning posts out in advance), so I suppose I'm staying with those.