Watercolor Wednesday 2016 - Some Archived Work

Being an artist as a student is very different than being an artist as a professional....particularly when it is not your full time job. As much as I try to believe that I will make art spontaneously while working full time and going to school, it doesn't happen. I'm not that perfect.

Instead, I have to be intentional about my work. This means actually setting a reminder on my phone to paint/draw/whatever. Last year I did a semi-weekly thing where I did watercolor paintings every week. Thankfully, my busy summer month (June) has ended, leaving 6 glorious weeks of nothing to really do...I may even try to paint while on vacation in a couple of weeks.

Anyway, I've actually been able to do some watercolors before starting up on my blog again. In addition to today's watercolor, I have included a couple that I've done over the past couple of weeks. Enjoy!

I'm looking forward to continuing with this series over Winter Break!

Waterolor Wednesday - By the Sea, By the Sea, By the Beautiful Sea...

So...my attempt to do a watercolor painting each week sort of fizzled out, but for good reason. Shortly after I started Watercolor Wednesdays, I got hired as a high school art teacher! So the last few weeks have been spent prepping the classroom and lessons, though I'd love to get back to posting on a regular basis.

Over the last few weeks, I've spent a lot of time at the beach, and used those opportunities to work on landscape painting, something I love.

Watercolor Wednesday - A Small Landscape

This time, we spent time out in the backyard doing some landscape painting. It's something I consider to be one of my personal best.

Watercolor Wednesday - Finding an Ally

Hopefully next week I'll start being able to post these on a Wednesday!

I've been wanting to get together with one of my close friends here in town to work together on this whole Watercolor Wednesday project. We've finally been able to get together after a couple of weeks of trying to. 

First off, her house is chocked full of some of the most awesome stuff for painting. We decided to set up a still life. Hers looks amazing and I can't wait for her to post it to her blog when she's finished. Mine, well, I've been really trying to work smaller lately, so I stuck with my watercolor sketchbook. Normally, I either stick with a small still life or a complex one; I've never tried a complex still life on a small canvas. Still, I'm pretty impressed. 

So, we've entered the third week of Watercolor Wednesday. Actually, it'd be really cool if others joined us, even just by sharing watercolor pieces once a week!

Watercolor Wednesday...Posted on Friday

(Ok, so this week has been hectic, but I really want to try getting this weekly watercolor series off the ground...or at least past the first post)

Enjoy and keep sharing my blog with others!

Watercolor Wednesday - A Simple Start

Since I'm no longer taking art classes as part of my education, I'm trying to use this blog to help me keep improving my skills and most importantly, to keep drawing.

Over the last year, I've discovered that watercolor is one of my favorite mediums to work with  (probably second only to charcoal), so I decided to start filling the pages of my watercolor sketchbook and simultaneously keep improving my skills. I was partly inspired by my participation in last year's Inktober to try to find a theme to work with to accomplish this. Hence the "Watercolor Wednesday" idea.

For now, it just means that I'll devote a little time each Wednesday to working in watercolors. Who knows where I'll end up taking it though!