Another Garden Selfie, 11 x 11" watercolor on Arches 100% cotton cold press w/c paper
Stuck in this zone of trying to render flowers in traditional watercolor mode, building up the layers (also known as glazing) but getting carried away and overdoing. This got much darker and more dramatic than I intended. And stilted. If I look it at from a distance, not so bad. Up close: sorta bad.
"Efforting," an artist friend calls it--as in trying too hard.
That's for sure.
Whatever happened to those carefree days of sketching everything in ink with simple contour drawings and adding color with Prismacolor markers or colored pencils? And being happy with whatever showed up in the sketchbook?
What happened is ambition to learn more, which can lead to "efforting" and the realization that the more you learn, the more you don't know.
Art is definitely not for the weak-hearted.
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