Here are my last photos of the watercolors I was working on while visiting my mom in the Bay Area… and the last of my tips for easy ways to have fun with watercolor paints…
Flowers are always a good way to practice painting. You don’t need to draw fancy flowers. Just paint some stems and put some leaves on them, and then paint some random flower shapes at the top. You can use any colors you want, any shapes you want. They do not have to look like real flowers.
Just play, have fun, go crazy. Let the colors grow like a wild dream garden. Every painting might not end up as something you will hang on your wall. But you will learn from every painting you do.
And don’t forget to use a very large brush to do a background wash of color for a sky before you start.
Pouring My Art Out 
I love the art, Art! You were named perfectly! 😉
the irony of life
truly
indeed
Love, love, love!
I am now working on something that you might find interesting… trying to fix a watercolor painting in Photoshop
All my flowers look like weeds when I draw them…
Then don’t draw them… let the paint form them…
Sage words, I think. I feel the same way about words. Don’t write them. Let them flow and figure out their formation.
that is what I am talking about!
I think I understand what you are saying. I have never really thought about it before, because I suck at art. For me, I can only tackle it being formulaic, even mathematical, which I suspect is the wrong approach. I certainly don’t apply that to writing – I just have at it, the more feral the better, the wilder the more pleasing. I guess there are parallels in most art that require consignment of structure and thought to the back room, where perhaps the physicists, the mathematicians and the drunks can make a meal of them.
At the museum of modern art in San Francisco, there is a bundle of old newspapers, tied with a string, placed against on of the gallery walls. They say that is art. This is the level of achievement that you are up against.
Well, to each their own I guess. I won’t say a bundle of newspapers isn’t art, but it’s not really my cup of tea when it comes to art.
I have seen some bad modern art
Why do they have to call it “modern” anyway? Isn’t that just basically saying that it’s really not that good and we had better put a label on it to distinguish its questionable quality?
Everything needs a label nowadays
Yah. I think I’m drunk on espresso – is that possible???
sure it is
I may go back for more.
simmer down