{"id":908,"date":"2012-05-31T17:13:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T00:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scobot.com\/blog\/?p=908"},"modified":"2016-02-09T17:46:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T01:46:41","slug":"watercolor-sketchbook-selections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scobot.com\/blog\/watercolor-sketchbook-selections\/","title":{"rendered":"Watercolor sketchbook (selections)"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A few selections from a “sketchbook” of watercolors. Created:<\/strong>\u00a0Winter 2012.\u00a0Materials:<\/strong>\u00a0Watercolors, India Ink, sometimes ink pens (though that didn’t always work the way I would have liked), on sketchbook paper.\u00a0size:<\/strong>\u00a05? x 7?<\/p>\n

I received a watercolor paint set for Christmas in 2011. After wondering what to do with it, having flashbacks to bad High School era watercolor paintings, and feeling like I wanted to take a break from the acrylic paintings I was doing, I decided to just start messing around with them and see what happened.<\/p>\n

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Watercolor, ink pen<\/p>\n

I tried to paint as fast and loose as I could – actually enjoying working “wet on wet” the more wet and messy the better! I tried going back in with markers to bring out details (later I stopped using markers and went with either India Ink or black watercolor). I discovered I LOVED white watercolor paint! (I BIG “No No!” from my school days, “real watercolor painters don’t use white!” – since I was not a REAL watercolor painter, what the heck, I’ll use it!)<\/p>\n

Here are a few pages that I thought came out O.K.<\/p>\n