some garden tomatoes

I think my number one goal for the #30x30DirectWatercolor2018 challenge is to let go of my niggling ways. I get too caught up in trying to capture exactly what I see rather than produce a work of art that represents what is there.

My first lesson learned: I need to give up my expectation of how a painting will turn out, and just allow the watercolor to do what it wants.

I also tweaked the palette I’m using, loosely based on one that Marc Taro Holmes uses. I prefer the redder Transparent Pyrrol Orange but quickly learned that this selection of colors really needs the brightness of regular Pyrrol Orange, so I switched it back.

I also prefer Quinacridone Burnt Orange over Marc’s choice of Quinacridone Deep Gold. Both use PO48 pigment but the deep gold adds PY150. I get brown tones easier without the additional yellow.

At church yesterday, I returned to my favorite Kaweco Liliput fountain pen, drawing my current bag and iPad as I followed along with the lesson in discipleship class. Sometimes I just need to draw some lines! (Color wash added later at home.) This bag is actually not a purse; it’s made by LIHIT LAB to hold computer tablets inside a briefcase. I found it on Amazon and thought it would work well for art supplies with room for my journal as well.