Since getting a full time job I haven't wanted to cut or sew fabric because it takes a lot longer to sew a quilt now. I can only work on projects at night and by the time I get home all I want to do is rest (I work with two-year old's at a preschool).
I taught myself how to watercolor about 10 years ago so I thought I'd try my hand at that again. I started with leaves because they are kind of easy:
My first one was the one in the top left but by the time I got to the bottom right one I didn't like how they were turning out. My favorite one is the one with yellow leaves and a few roots.
Since moving to the Blue Ridge mountains I've seen a lot of artists paint these mountains so I thought I'd give that a try too:
I loved how my leaves turned out ( above) so I returned to those but tried my hand at an entire tree:
To me it looks like a "Winnie The Pooh" tree.
I then decided to paint lavender but I don't like how this one turned out:
My favorite flower has always been the Black-eyed Susan so I tried to paint two different versions, one tighter and one more loose and free flowing:
One of my favorite birds is the blue jay so I sketched that one yesterday and hopefully I'll get it painted this weekend so stay tuned!
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