…Or at least that’s how it is in the world of watercolor! On Sunday, July 13th, Jen and I took a watercolor class. We purchased watercolor supplies almost 2 years ago and decided we would teach ourselves how to paint. We quickly found out how overly ambitious we were and decided that we should really get some formal instruction. It took over a year for the schedules to work out, but we finally were able to attend a class. We spent about 3 hours in a class with a wonderful woman named Mary Pat and received a lot of good information. The class was held at The Bay Arts Center in Chesapeake Beach, MD. A still life display was set up that we could paint off if we so desired. I wasn’t inspired by the still life so I chose from a variety of pictures Mary Pat had printed out. The first picture I tackled was of a set of footprints along a shoreline. Mary Pat showed me some really cool tricks with this picture. Some of them scared me at first (you want me to take yucky water and just splatter it on the picture then smear it all together?!?!) but then afterwards, it turned out to be a pleasant surprise – or one of what Mary Pat calls, “Happy Little Accidents”. Below is a picture of my very first watercolor picture.
The second picture I tackled was of a white flower set amidst a bunch of green leaves. I figured this would enable me to play with various shades of the same color and work with how to differentiate among them. I started the picture in class but did not have time to finish it there. I hope to finish it once things have settled down from the wedding and have more time. Below is what I have completed so far.
