" ......and I make so many beginnings there will never be an end. (Jo March)". Little Women
                                                                                             -Louisa May Alcott

Two beginnings.......I poured indigo, fr. ultramarine, burnt and raw sienna.  Then I sprayed with webbing.  Stay tuned, I don't know where they are headed.

Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.....Albert Einstein  

Maybe we can all just encourage each other in whatever it is we do best. 

This is what I am doing on these frigid winter days.......first applied random lines of masking fluid then washed over with shades of blues (the winter snow influencing me)  When it dried I saw the twigs of the bush right outside my window which are dotted with the tiniest purple berries.  

  

I am finding the green sprigs and painting small branches.  The berries will be next. 

KEEP WARM AND KEEP MAKING ART.

“You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk.”        

                                                                                                      -Louise Smith

Working (or playing) on YUPO has become an addiction for me. I really enjoy pouring on the colors in whatever way I can think and then watch what "grows" from the paper. The mixing and mingling are in themselves works of art and I can barely bring myself to touch them sometimes so I have many (many, many) unfinished pieces to study and play with. These colors just demanded that I paint poppies. Since I cannot seem to grow them in my garden, this is a next best thing. Just beginning to find the flowers here. 

WIP  Poppies

Watercolor on YUPO

Overwork in Progress!



Iris in Progress

11 X 14 watercolor on YUPO

Finding dark shapes to define the flower and I know I will overdo it.  I am having too much fun with this one so I might never stop.

I am back to what I like best.....negative spaces. Sometimes it is nice to go back to the familiar,  I am comfortable doing this.  I did this wash several months ago (when it was still autumn) and have been looking at it for that long.  Now I am "finding" all the leaves hanging on.  I have more to do.

 
This is 8 x 10 on 300lb. coldpress watercolor

To the beach!

I had workers coming today and because of a miscommunitcation we are rescheduled for tomorrow so a totally free day.  Yippee!

I went to the studio and started throwing paint around (literally) and have these three beginnings outside drying.  They are definitely calling me to the beach even tho it is January in Michigan (and everywhere else, I know).  Still, we are driving over to Lake Michigan so I can walk the beach with BIL (boy i love) and take pictures of rocks.  The sun is playing hide and seek, hope it is shining when we get there.

Breathe.........again.

I am being teased with a hint of autumn in the air.

An initial wash of cad orange, perm. magenta and q. gold
that I can see becoming autumn leaves.

"Stop counting crayons, just draw pictures." -Mark Scharenbroich

Work in Progress (detail) 300lb watercolor paper
I'm throwing paint again and trying to make something of it. I added Krylon gold webbing spray paint as well.