Raining Today

 If it's raining, I must be doing artwork.  Well, not all the time.  

This last week we where down a car as my cars starting was going out.  It started with a single "click" and no start, then later it got to be "click", "click", "click" before my car would start.  Only a matter of time before it would be "click"s all the way down.  It was a bit of a wakeup call to have to schedule my travel with Bobbie and Bobbie being priority.  Only latest a few days till I could get my starter replaced, but still a wakeup call.

Back to Barns.

Here is my latest barn drawing.  I've gotten very used to doing these and have been enjoying them.  It takes about 2.5 hrs to complete a single one with a short break while doing them.

My comfort level is getting high in creating these, but now I need to work on other styles as well.

On my watercolor that I did for my brothers friend, I did the painting but it was not "right" and felt very unfinished.  It took me a full day of thinking of how to address that.  I had thought of a couple of different tacks I could take but ended up using a overlay wash on most of it (different colors for each area) and it worked out very well.  You never know where a painting will take you.  The same thing happened to my during my art class.  I did not have a clue about the background and even tossed the first version because of the background.  On my second go I came up with a very different solution that worked very well.  Whew....  what a relief.

My ankle is in the final stages of healing where I can do almost anything I want (w/brace for rough stuff) with full strength in another 6 weeks or so.  Feels normal except for that dang soft tissue once in a while.

Anyway, enjoy and later...