(or): Where the ship hits the fan… Okay, that joke only works if you are a fan of my art…
So I told you that I had a silly idea… no… that’s fine, I can wait till you stop laughing… I have been sharing some of my unfinished watercolor paintings with you. Here is one I haven’t shown you yet…
It is a pictures I started on a family vacation years ago when we all went to Morrow Bay on the central California coast. This was when I first started trying to interest my mother in watercolor painting. I made a mistake. I said we should try painting the view of the bay from the deck of her hotel room.
Painting a landscape is hard. I consider myself to be fairly good at drawing, but this view contained so many elements… land, sky, boats, water, clouds and fog, trees and bushes. I did a very rough pencil sketch, just to get the feel. I wasn’t trying to be photorealistic. I just wanted her to start playing with the watercolors. I did a sketch for each of us. My mistake was that I should have started her out with something easy, like the geometric patterns I posted earlier this week.
The picture above is mine. I am not particularly proud of it. I keep adding paint, but as I mentioned in one of the posts bellow, watercolors do not allow you to paint over mistakes like thicker paints do.
But here is the idea I had. What if I clean it up and work on it in Photoshop, like I did with the pictures I did for my children’s book… (available for sale, over there in my sidebar, by the way… just follow the links… kids love that book)…
So I am going to do some posts where I show you, step-by-step, how I am trying to turn a mediocre painting into something better…
There. I haven’t done much, yet. Just worked on some outlines on the boats. But give me time, and we will see what we can do.
Pouring My Art Out 
Hey I live near Morrow Bay. Just so you know, you nailed the rock by the way.
Yay… thanks… I love that place.
Love the watercolor water color. The east coast doesn’t get nearly that blue.
that might just be the color that came in that watercolor set…
Wow, you can really tell that the second one is sharpened up. I like the original too, though.
I am just working on a copy of a photo of the original… I will still work on the painting.
I love that you follow me so closely that I can feel your boobs pressing into my back…
HA!
I love that you follow me so closely that I can feel your boobs pressing into my back…
That sounds strangely familiar…
I like the pic. You got the color of the water perfectly right.
Now I have a chance to mess that up… HA!
I wonder if George Bush offers art lessons.
(Just kidding…)
I saw his paintings… he has a child-like simplicity… and he uses it in his art…