A water color workshop I'd signed up for motivated me to start painting more. So while Christmas shopping, the Audubon calendar inspired me to paint a bird a day to prepare to take the workshop. So here are a few examples from my watercolor sketch book. I'm using the Strathmore Visual Journal book. I've been reading a book by Carl Purcell called "Your Artist's Brain" . . . neuroscience meets artist. This book is unlocked something for me. He explains how to "see" in a way that I finally understand. Drawing has gotten easier . . .watercolor is another story. I find acrylic much easier than watercolor. But there is something so lively and engaging about watercolor. It's a dance with the water and pigment. It makes me do what it wants, not the other way around.
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These are lovely, Suzie! They make me yearn for the Spring ever more. I can't wait to see my little wandering feathered friends come back to the woods.
Thanks Z'Anne! I did the Christmas bird count this year (that means going out with a flock of Audubon birders from 7 am to 5 pm!) and I was amazed at how many birds are out there that I just never notice. And many of the spring migrants were starting to show up, like the townsend warblers, redwing black birds!
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