Calm Evening
Original Inktense & Micron Postcard, $10
The muse is a flighty creature. Yesterday I was utterly obsessed with painting, today there was this strange resistance. I think it was because I was pressuring myself to paint things from my friends' photos rather than just whatever. This same thing happened when I had commissions a couple of years ago (it didn't help that they were not paid commissions). I don't know, some days it comes easy and some days it doesn't.
I'm still obsessed, but I thought I'd take it "easy" today and paint a simple silhouette scene. I bought these nifty postcards at Jerry's Art-A-Rama. They are Strathmore watercolor paper with the postcard stuff printed on the back so you can actually send them, and then your recipient can frame them, if they want. I think I might like to do some original greeting cards, as well. This particular scene was done in Inktense blocks & pencils, with the heron and grasses done in Sakura micron pens. It's standard postcard size.
It doesn't help that I have a bad headache today, so maybe tomorrow I'll be raring to go again. The important thing is, I showed up at the studio and I did my thing.
Hope your day is going easier.
Hope your day is going easier.
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