Artwork #2

Tue May 20, 2025

Art, watercolor, painting, sketch

I've been sketching and painting regularly over the last month. I feel like I'm getting some technique down and I'm setting aside consistent time to actually make some stuff with my hands. Here's a small selection of some of my sketches from the last month or so.

Two small landscape paintings. The first is a city street with white and bright orange buildings. The second is a seascape with two buildings perched on the rockface heading down to the water.

I started scrolling through Mastodon posts on Sundays and bookmarking pictures people share with the "SilentSunday" tag. There are often great lanscapes, lonely buildings, or other quiet photos which grab my attention. This has helped me keep a log of things to scroll through when I sit down to paint so I don't have to hunt for subjects.

A gray house nestled into a large rock wall. A smaller red building is to the right.

A bright red gas station roof against a blue sky. Four bookmark sized paintings. The first is a cat stretching. The second is a green field with a fence running into the distance. The third is a beach with green hills surrounding a beach with people in the distance. The fourth is a stream with two small hills running down to the water. Three more painted bookmarks. The first is another beach scene. Water laps on shore with people near the shoreline. A seascape from the top of a cliff. The ocean lies below with the cliff edge visible in the middle distance. A white house on a green hill with a golden pasture in the background. There is a fourth, unfinished sketch on this page.

It still feels clumsy from time to time and I'm still wary about putting paint to paper. There are a couple pages in this sketchbook that have some pencil sketches that I cannot quite bring myself to paint yet...I'm not sure why. But I'm enjoying the time.

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