Still finding time to do arts and crafts.
I've filled spare hours with painting, artwork, sewing and bookbinding.
But I just haven't stopped to write about it.
So, to start with...
I find myself sitting down and playing with watercolor paint a lot. Unlike acrylic painting with the constant fear of permanently ruining something with the paint, I can do watercolors virtually anywhere. All my acrylic painting projects are done in my craft room, usually with old cloths on. But I do most of my watercolors sitting at the kitchen table.
In January I was thinking about Valentines and set out to make some watercolor heart art.
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In February I was busy making a watercolor mixing chart with the different watercolor paints I have been collecting over the past year. I just buy colors I like without any goal or plan in mind. This is the first time I've made one of these charts. It's a little messy. I'd like to do three different charts; yellows and blues, yellows and pinks, and pinks and blues.
By March I was thinking about Shamrocks but didn't spend much time on that and moved on to just playing with watercolor paint in the form of colorful abstracts. I've been doing a bunch of these, experimenting with different color combinations.
I often go back over the watercolor with some pen or marker embellishments.
It's all just doodling to me.
In April I stopped long enough to make something for the monthly ArtSnacks challenge.
But I can't seem to make a really symmetric butterfly freehand. If I'm trying to be a perfectionist I draw an outline of one side of the butterfly, trace it on to tracing paper, flip that over and transfer the mirror image outline to the other side. I didn't do that this time so I can't look at this without seeing all the asymmetric differences.
So I scanned in the drawing, split the image down the middle and with some help from Photoshop created two different perfectly symmetric Butterflies from the original drawing.
Thanks for reading.
Aileen
