Back to Color and Other Thoughts

Man does not live by bread alone and they is true for black & what drawings. So back to color I go. I love watercolor but it's hard and each time I feel that I'm lost in the wilderness only to find (after letting my work sit for weeks) that some of it is not bad.

Still hunting for my watercolor style.

Went driving to take some photos of an neat old building by the French Broad river in Madison Co. and to my surprise found it was being restored! Even better, I met with the fellow old guys rebuilding / restoring it. Got a complete tour of the outside and inside of the building that is about 1/2 done. Very nice to see this happen and I hope my drawing / watercolor does it justice.

I bought some cheap frames from Ikea of different sizes and now I'm working on doing some artwork to feel these sizes. This watercolor I did for Bobbie and it's of a vase of hand picked flowers she placed on the porch table. I titled it "Summer".

But on to other thoughts...

Been watching some TV shows on the Disney+ channel. Watched Mandalorian and Loki so far. My preference by far is Loki as the script, set designs and story was better in my eyes and the Star Wars spin off. Just my opinion. I'm not a big fan of super hero movies or shows but Loki was interesting in the plot and implementation. I like it.

Back to summer.....

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