Water Play

So, as I may have mentioned a while back, I’ve been playing around with watercolours lately. Not necessarily “successfully”, mind you, but I blame that on the whole not-getting-to-complete-my-watercolour-class thing. 😉 Anyhow, I did another page last night with my artsy-ladies group, and I figured it was about time to share. NOT because I think they’re any good <ahem>… but because I think there are some people out there who think I am successful at everything I try. Which is simply not true. And here’s proof.

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love”. – Rumi

“The window of my soul I throw wide open to the sun”. – John Greenleaf Whittier

“My darling girl… when are you going to understand that being ‘normal’ is hardly a virtue – it rather denotes a lack of courage”. – Alice Hoffman

“The wheel is come full circle”. – William Shakespeare

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves”. – William Shakespeare

It’s been fun to experiment with different techniques (wet-on-dry vs. wet-on-wet) and different tools (salt, masking fluid, gel pens). And there are areas on each of them that I like, which is good. But it’s insanely frustrating to see something in my mind’s eye and not be able to create it… yet. I guess that’s part of the whole “learning” thing though, isn’t it? *sigh* Well, okay then. Onwards and upwards.