Art Practice-Updated

  This is  an update for my previous art practice post.

    Wow this turned out to be a really long day for me-got my errands done, it rained the whole time-but that was so refreshing.

   It turned out to be a very long day with other events happening, but I wanted to add background to my heron piece tonight.

I used mostly watercolor inks with a bit of watercolor paints. Decided to make a rainy day.  I ran out of paint that I had mixed up for the background-I noticed I had missed painting all of the very top of this piece- so needed to mix up a little more-which was not as blue-but in the end I like it.

  I don't have a total plan when I paint these-so I am thinking I should have a plan first. If when I started this piece and knew I was going to add rain I would have put some waves in the water. 

     These are practice pieces  So am ok with the process so far  

I am liking this one-even though it may be a bit too busy now

As I type this post-my neighbor is shooting off fireworks-but nothing pretty just the ones that make noise-well it is summer and this neighbor loves blasting these off haha

  Happy Friday and weekend coming up

Art Practice

   I am still working out of the Chinese book I shared-it uses a lot of watercolor inks and some watercolor paints.

We enjoy watching the cranes here so I thought I would use my inks and try it  At first I wasn't crazy about the results but when I added some water I like it better. These guys are always fishing so I thought I should have thought of a fish first as I would have done the beak different

  I may look at this again later today and decide  if I want to add some background sky to it-thoughts??

So, I found a carp in the same book This one is mostly inks, except for the blue in the sky

  We were supposed to get a lot of rain last night after midnight-nothing but lightening. This morning it looks like it could rain-is predicted - we will see what mother nature gives us.  We really need a good rain as the next 2 weeks shows high 90's F with humidity-super not happy about that.  This is just going to go down as a very hot and humid summer.  I am so ready for fall already-smiles

  Thank you for your recipe ideas-your suggestions have helped me get out of slump of what to cook for us

Happy Thursday