Saturdays are the best.

It was a rough week so today I just needed to play. I broke out my Pilot parallel pen - something have not used in a while and just let the image happen. It was fun playing with the way the ink flows and making some flowers.

Today made me scroll back through years of photos to find one particular image. I was not enjoying this little mushroom-hatted birdo. I was going through the cycle of liking and hating this piece and it reminded me of one of my favorite pieces. I had to scroll back years to find it.

I’m counting this as painting today because I touched a paintbrush and put paint to paper. I thought it might be fun to see how the Prima Tropicals palette mixed up. I did each one twice with the opposite color going first. Some mixed better than others creating a smooth third color - sometimes I had more water on my brush than others - but this is why we practice! Color Theory is cool.

Plant Buddies - I tried to make the “robot” looking one look like the shapes were concave but I’m not sure it worked. This is why we practice. The lil fox has stolen my heart.

My favorite scent is grapefruit or orange citrus. Lemon and lime is ok too but Oranges are the best. There’s something wholesome about the scent to me.

I broke out the metallic watercolors for this one. Still unsure of a theme for April - maybe no theme. Again, I’m writing these posts in the future to fill out this new calendar idea. This is a watercolor bird painted in my Strathmore watercolor cold press journal. White pen, Micron PN in Black, and a metallic pen were used.

I’m back home but not unpacked so we are going to finish the cover page of the larger journal. The book of not-so-secret secrets since I plan on posting the images.

I’m traveling today and away from my desk. I thought I packed everything I needed but I forgot my tape and my date stamp. I also apparently forgot what day it was when I wrote the date on because this was painted on April 4th not April 3rd. I was thinking about the little critters in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (I think).

So we are about to go out of town and I’ve packed my art journal….I have a big leather-bound journal I got as a gift a few holidays ago and I’ve been a little nervous to use it. I decided on March 16 I would give it a go. Since my journal was packed, I made the March 16 birdo a friend. The paper in the journal is nice so we’ll see how it goes as I fill more pages. I will probably do larger practices on these pages once the cover is full.