Painting 2 at last

It's taken a long time and I'm not sure if it's finished. I'm brave enough to put up a second painting and I feel ok about this one. I used more watercolours and water soluble crayons for the background and then added more printed tissue paper as this worked so well before. She was also done in my large white journal too which I like a lot. I've used my own words too this time. It was a "poem" that I wrote years ago about being alone. I used to write a lot on an American diary site called Diaryland, an easy, basic way for beginners to blog their thoughts. I wrote regularly there for around 5 years before going back to writing just in paper journals again. I did however keep a copy of the entries and some seem as potent now as they did when I was in my twenties.


For the workshop I seem to have stalled however. I have not moved onto Lesson 4 yet as I have no wood to paint on at the moment. I also feel that I need to stock up on supplies for Week 4 and simply do not have the funds for that now! I will have to compromise on some parts of this lesson I'm sure.

However I have been practising my faces and features and I'm so pleased that I have learned to draw such pretty girls. I did not imagine that I could have done that just a few weeks ago. I'm also really enjoying seeing the work done by the other members of the workshop. There are some outstanding paintings being produced that really fire my imagination. Such an inspiring group of people.