Wednesday, September 17, 2014

My Favorite Time Of Year!

I truly enjoy living in an area with four seasons. Just when I'm getting tired of what the weather is doing, it's time for it to do something new. I even enjoy Winter ... initially, anyway, before I've shoveled the driveway 27 times.

If you asked me to name my favorite season, though, I'll probably surprise you. As much as I love the flowers in Spring and Summer, I absolutely adore Autumn. Crisp mornings, bright blue skies and color bursting out all over. I gathered a few leaves on my walks with the dog yesterday and enjoyed myself slinging paint around.

Today I went back in with ink to add details and shadows to the two pages I drew the leaf shapes on. The thing is I really like how the pages in my sketchbook turned out. All I did was make leaf shapes with watercolor, let them touch just a bit so the colors would bleed and then splattered paint on top. I think I'll try to recreate that on watercolor paper and play around with what to do next in my sketchbook.


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  1. Your leaves are gorgeous. And I'm jealous. You have fall color already.
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    1. Don't be too upset ... we don't have that much color yet. I just picked up the 7 leaves that had changed already. Although if we keep having 50 degree nights, it won't be long.

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  2. I also adore the Autumn, Karen. Precious, beautiful and very inspiring for me this first impression that you bring to the paper. Thank you for sharing!

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