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I wasn’t sure how I was going to like this one because it’s the first time I’ve used watercolor powder – damn, that can get way more pigmented than you want if you aren’t careful! – but I’m actually quite happy with the result. I think I’m going to play with these a bit more.
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Since I started getting back into painting regularly, I’ve been obsessed with perfection. Like, if I got even the tiniest bit “wrong,” I would get frustrated and toss the painting or drawing or whatever it was. And “wrong” was always pretty arbitrary; sometimes it was perspective, and other times it was a slightly different color…
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Since I wasn’t too thrilled with my self portrait, I decided that I was just going to do a little something that made me happy, which means … yep, back to my old shit. This one’s still untitled for the time being, but I’m heavily leaning toward “sun rays.” Anyway, along with school work, actual…
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So I don’t think this is necessarily my best work, but! I’m playing with different styles now to see if I can incorporate them into my future pieces. Looking at this, it definitely does look amateurish, but hey, we all have to start somewhere, right?
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You know how I said I was reevaluating? Well, that particular mode of thinking has continued to take up residency in my brain, which led me to a bit of a Twitter storm of despair. I mean, it was only a few tweets in length, but the basic gist was that I have realized why…
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Okay, so just as a disclaimer, at least one of the issues I’m about to talk about has resolved itself – thank god – and I’m in a much better place mentally than I was even a day ago. But so much of what transpired has me going deep into my brain and, like I…
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So it went from this …
