Watercolor Pencils -

Are FUN!! - ;))

First let me clarify -

I am NOT an artist -
But I DO appreciate what they can do -
And my friends, Gene and Barbara, are always painting something AWESOME -

But I hesitate to join them - because I can't draw -
And I don't look forward to the "clean-up" part - LOL -

So - anyway -

When Barbara mentioned Watercolor Pencils a while back - HERE -
I thought MAYBE that was something that I could try -

So I ordered some stuff from Joanns - HERE -

And today - I just played -

And had FUN!! - ;))

I haven't done watercolors since I was a little kid and had the "palette" with all the colors in their little "wells" and a paintbrush or two. I have bought some "art how-to" books in the past and never got very far with any of them -

But this "kit" is pretty good - the instruction booklet is VERY basic - and goes step-by-step. It's written by Kathi Hanson - and covers several different techniques -

It also includes some practice sheets that tie into some of the "lessons" - so I pulled off the top one - and just went for it. The second photo below shows the practice drawings better than this one - but there is a flower - a birdhouse - and a leaf to "paint". The instructions actually made sense to me - and it was FUN!! -

Here's a LEFT-Handed funny for you guys -
In this RIGHT-Handed world of ours -

I did the first step on the flower -
Then grabbed what I thought was the BROWN pencil for the birdhouse -

Went to check the color "name" -

And yeah - it's BROWN - upside down - LOL - ;))

So I finished up the flower -

And the birdhouse -

And the leaf -

The birdhouse "wood-graining effect" is sort of pathetic looking -

But the shading on the flower and leaf are not bad -

Considering that I don't have a clue -

But I CAN follow instructions -

And I CAN try to copy what I see - LOL - ;))

Tomorrow I'll play some more -

And since I have to wait for some of this stuff to DRY between steps -

Maybe I can also sew some sets of strata that are all ready to go -

Or do some of those "chores" -

That flat-out refuse to do themselves - LOL - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -