Sunday, January 29, 2012







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.

2 comments:

Z'anne said...

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.

suzie Wolfer said...

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!