Ahaaa Summertime! As I was standing in the warm sunshine watering...all the sights, smells and sounds evoked pleasant memories of many warm summer days. I love the familiar sound of the Cicadas in the trees. The sound takes me back to playing mud pies under the big Elm trees when I was a child. Summer just wouldn't be summer without their chorus.
My summer has been exceptionally busy with birthdays, graduations, travel, and a wedding! We have partied all summer so far. I feel a shift now...maybe a more leisurely pace akin to summer is coming? Summertime and the living' is easy!
July is World of Watercolor month and I have been painting and getting ready for the fall shows that are already requesting entries. I am painting every chance I get but all paintings seem to be in different stages of incompletion at this time. I know the shows are coming all year but seems I do better with a deadline.
I had a fun paint day with friends a couple of weeks back and tried some Zen watercolor using only 3 colors, red, yellow and blue. The idea was to just put down color on wet paper and let it mingle and then go back in and very loosely turn the paint into something. In other words to let the paint guide me intuitively, which is the way of watercolor anyway, but looser. It was an interesting exercise and good practice.
Guess I was thinking of my Mama’s Periwinkles when I painted this one. She always had them growing in her garden.
This started with three puddles of colors as these all did. Wish I had taken photos of just the backgrounds.
Love the way the colors shine though each other.
Linda painting
Kay painting.
And Pearl trying to keep us all entertained!
A card I painted for Sue’s birthday. We both love Sunflowers!
