{"id":17962,"date":"2015-04-24T07:30:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T06:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/?p=17962"},"modified":"2015-04-23T22:30:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T21:30:16","slug":"i-suck-at-watercolors-documented-life-project-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/i-suck-at-watercolors-documented-life-project-14\/","title":{"rendered":"I suck at watercolors (Documented Life Project #14)"},"content":{"rendered":"

OhMyGoodnessOhMyGoodnessOhMyGoodness… I had some free time on my hands last week and I thought it would be nice to dive into the Documented Life Project and make another art journal with the challenges the DLP-team provides. It had been a few weeks since I looked at the site, so I surfed to Art to the 5th<\/a> to see where I left off. It turned out I had to work with this challenge:<\/p>\n

April 4<\/a>
\nApril Theme:<\/strong> Color Safari (Exploring Inks and Paints)<\/em>
\nArt Challenge:<\/strong> Watercolors
\nJournal Prompt:<\/strong> It’s Water Under the Bridge<\/p>\n

Oops.
\nWatercolors (or, as we say in the Netherlands, ‘aquarel’)<\/p>\n

It’s not my favorite material\/technique to work with, I don’t know much about it either (or maybe I should say: “I don’t WANT to know much about it…”) but OK, I committed myself to make a page with each challenge so I decided to give it a go.<\/p>\n

First, I googled “watercolor paintings with water” to see if something would pop up that could inspire me. NOT A GOOD IDEA! This is what I saw on my screen…<\/p>\n

\"google-watercolor-water\"<\/a><\/p>\n

… and I closed it right away! These images made it crystal clear:<\/p>\n

I.AM.NOT.GOOD.AT.WORKING.WITH.WATERCOLORS<\/p>\n

looking too long at these paintings would only make me feel more insecure.<\/p>\n

Now we do have a lot of watercolor paint in the house, as my beloved was a gifted watercolor artist, once. I say “once” because I never actually seen him with a brush (and we are together for 17 years) but we still have the paintings he made before I knew him. Here’s two of his watercolor paintings.<\/p>\n

\"marius-painting-1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"marius-painting-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So, what to do?
\nI decided to make it easy on myself and go with the phrase “It’s Water Under the Bridge” and a photo to start with. I found this picture on the Internet (sorry, I don’t remember where I found it and who to give credit for… )<\/p>\n

\"bridge\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Next, I sketched in a few lines where the water had to be placed on the page. I used ‘bistre’ and water to paint that spot.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"bridge-waterpaint01\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then I transferred the photo onto the page. The photo didn’t transfer well, there lay a white haze over the image. Here’s how it looked.<\/p>\n

\"bridge-waterpaint02\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I came to the point that I wanted to throw this page away and skip this challenge, but hey, that’s not me. So I ploughed on and got the watercolor-box on the table after all. I painted the photo like it was a picture in a coloring book and here’s the result.<\/p>\n

\"bridge-waterpaint03\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s not my favorite page. I guess you would not even had recognized a bridge (and water under it) if you had not seen the photo first. That’s OK. I would not have seen it either.<\/p>\n

I peeked at the next challenge (acrylic paints; what a relief! I can work with that) and the next (gelli-plate, yay!) and am looking forward to play with that.<\/p>\n

Let’s forget about this page, shall we?
\nIn any case, thanks for looking.
\nHave a nice weekend.
\nMake sure you have some fun.
\nPlay with acrylics!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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