Do not be confused with my second new quirk, fear painting. Emerging purely from fear and a need to calm down and distract myself, I have no designs of being an artiste. I managed three pieces today (last Wednesday). My medium is watercolors. Out of fancy and boredom, I bought an art set two months ago, then never touched it. By the time I actually wanted to paint, I realized that I didn't have any brushes, palette, or paper…. This weekend, I finally fixed all three of those factors, so I could easily pull out my paints and go to town (or actually in this case, stay in town).
With no power and enough daylight, I set up shop facing our courtyard as I started randomly squeezing tubes of paint unto my palette. I actually felt pretty lucky as, in my previous life working for the VA, I would never have had time to just sit down and paint. (Plus, you all know I would be decorating cupcakes instead!) With nothing in mind, I started making strokes upward and over. A pastoral greeting card scene or a child's playtime product, I had no idea what was going to come from my ministrations.
This is what I came up with. Sidenote: Since I don't have a scanner, I took photos of them, then extracted them with Photoshop and cropped them. They're all just on sheets of watercolor paper. The fourth one is one painted by Rachel Wasser. I'm not so spontaneous. In fact, the third one was my attempt to do what she did, and it just looks like a study of geometric shapes.
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