Pop Goes the Artist!

I’ve been reading a lot of excellent sketch blogs lately, many of them done primarily in watercolor (Laurelines is one of my favorites), and perhaps because of them, I’ve had a strong urge to sketch lately.

In watercolor.

I don’t actually have my watercolors with me at school (although I do have watercolor pencils and a single large paintbrush), but I’m almost tempted to ask my parents to bring them up to me when they visit this weekend. I’m a little confused by this sudden desire, though, because last time I checked, my relationship with watercolors was one of deep and mutual dislike. I am a control freak and I’ve always felt that watercolors are better suited to artists who can, um, go with the flow.

Besides that, I’m so out of practice with pencil sketching that my attempts at doing the same with watercolors will only lead to ugliness, frustration, and even less sketching than I already do.

Should do more sketching with a pen, though. I enjoy it and paradoxically, the inability to erase frees me up and makes me less concerned with getting it “right.”

(Pictured is a colored pencil sketch I just completed, of my bottle of olive oil. I need to work on shiny/ reflective/ see-through surfaces.)

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