watercolor sketch 4" x 6"Today I was in the mood to do a little watercolor sketching. Since I'm always intimidated by a clean sheet of paper I used the back of a painting (way beyond any way of salvaging) that I had cut up to test colors on the back side. I had cut the painting into small 4"x4" and a little larger size. I thought by using this 4" x 6" size today I might add a large mailing address label on the other side (the badly painted side) to write a few words and a smaller label with an address. There you go, a post card ready to mail.
The last few days have simply been beautiful, and the weather is only expected to become warmer the next few days. Yippee a beautiful fall after all. Today after my daily two mile walk I took my new camera to the beach and was able to take a few photo's of areas that I thought make great paintings. Lately I've been thinking about a lot of different scenes I want to paint. I only hope this motivation lasts.
This is beautiful, Nancy - I love that you have omitted some edges for our eyes to imagine.
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OH YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 Nancy this is absolutely beautiful -- loose, painterly, impressionistic, just PERFECT!!! LOVE LOVE it!!!! I do the same thing with my 'can't rescue' paintings ... sure helps the budget! LOL
ReplyDeleteStay motivated, my friend -- your work is wonderful! Good luck with the beach pix!
I am so glad I signed up for your email updates!!! I love it!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful idea. I have a lot of well bad paintings I can do this with. So your mailing this to me :)
Oh alright Angela asked first.
Nancy,
ReplyDeleteI love everything about this- it is so fresh and vibrant, and so very what is wonderful about watercolor. It really shows that you enjoyed painting it. To receive it in the email today was a great gift - can't wait to see what you are inspired by next!
Faye
Thank you Angela, Lin, Toni and Faye. I'm usually so tight with my work that to paint loose is fun. I'm constantly torn between the watercolors that are done to look photo realistic and the fun energetic sketchy look. I've always loved them both. So, with this way of thinking I'll never master either ... but oh, how fun it is to paint anyway at all.
ReplyDeletetop notch Nancy...do more of these! beauuuutiful!
ReplyDeleteLovely watercolor sketch. I'm living vicariously through you...your day...and walk...seem wonderful.
ReplyDeletewhat a lovely watercolour postcard! it's just so "calm" and wonderful! look forward to the next ones (do post up with the photos too, I'm sure it's lovely too!) :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Celeste, I wish I would sketch more. I always tell my self that I should ... then something gets in my way.
ReplyDeleteThank you Suzanne, Sketches always seem so freeing don't they? I do feel blessed to live where I do. I try never to take it for granted. (I even like the winters *smile)
ReplyDeleteThank you Fennymum ... great idea, I'll try to post some of the beautiful landscapes we are so fortunate to have. Thanks for stopping by.
ReplyDeleteThis is a wonderful, fresh little painting. The flowers will soon fade, but the weather has been quite wonderful in the Pacific NW the past few weeks. I feel so lucky to live in Oregon. Glad you enjoyed Billie. Thanks for stopping by!
ReplyDeleteI love this sketch. I would love to learn to paint as good as you, but I'm a very long way from this.
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