Katy's Garden, 6.5" x 10" ink and watercolor
And then back to the ink and watercolor. Now that's just fun, in contrast to the more traditional watercolor-only paintings I've been doing, which I find laborious and painstaking except for those rare sweet-spot moments.
I used a Speedball dip pen to establish some basic lines, then went over some of those lines with a stick dipped in black acrylic ink (as artist-friend Emily Weil taught me to to). Went for a walk while all that thick ink dried, and then came back and splashed in the colors.
Quick and easy and now, taped above my desk, makes me happy as I prepare to work on a freelance editing project. That's how it works: an hour of art-making often provides good fuel for the day's other tasks. What a beautiful formula when it works.
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