Ahh.....quiet

We spent Christmas Day and Monday winding down and in that precious time I got back to painting.  I painted this for the rookiepainter challenge.  First with almost no background and then, just for fun, I painted dark behind it.  Just a learning/playing exercise. 

for the rookiepainter.blogspot challenge

watercolor on Yupo

This painting has been a struggle for me and I fear it is getting overworked.  So I leave it now, maybe to visit it again later........maybe not.  The blue skies of autumn are whispering their gentle reminder to get out and enjoy before it's too late.  I did hang out at the playground with Harry where I played Ursula to his mermaid (?) and we lived in the snowgloo (I think he meant igloo) under the slide.  Let's all just play like kids again!

Loving Yupo

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant:  first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.  ~Author Unknown

A Sugar High

10x8 watercolor on Yupo

for challenge at http://www.rookiepainter.blogspot.com/

I started this with a wash of rose madder, quinacridone red, permanent magenta and new gamboge and then as in "sculpting an elephant" I lifted everything that didn't look like a dish of candy.  What a blast!  In the past I avoided Yupo - found it very frustrating and gave up way too easliy.  But I just figured with these challenges.....why not make them truly challenging (which I find Yupo is)