Some Recent Arting

Published: 2023-07-05 8:35 PM

Category: Creative | Tags: art, watercolor, sketching, learning

I needed an unplugged activity to bring some non-technical creative balance to my life. I decided that sketching and watercolors were what I wanted to stretch myself with and I share pictures a lot of my Fosstodon account, but I don't post them here often.

Well, dear reader, today is your lucky day.

Clouds are hard to paint, as evidenced by one of my first attempts:

I've watched some videos and have done a couple more small attempts at clouds, particularly this seek when the high temperatures and super high humididity have created some impressive towers.

This week, I tried to capture a major storm a few miles north of the house:

I'm still not great at mixing color and using water to create the soft subtle edges on the clouds. I was frustrated with the muddiness of the painting on the left, so I came back inside and did the one on the right, which I'm much happier with.

I realized that much of what I'm trying to do is unnecessary - I'm trying to fill up too much space when what I need is to leave more untouched space and really only paint in the accents. The eye fills in the detail and I don't take advantage of that fact enough.