I always enjoyed drawing and painting. There’s something very satisfying and enjoyable about getting an exact line just so or watching a brush put paint on a white paper. I also love the sense of accomplishment as well. But most of all, it’s my thing.
That is, it used to be my thing. Back when I had art contests with my sister, after which we’d debate for hours as to who had won. Back when my best friend dragged me to Books & Pens in my second year of engineering and practically forced me to buy my first set of chalk pastels and a big drawing pad. That night, after two mediocre attempts, I stayed up till 3:00am and produced my best painting to date.
I want to get back into it all. So I decided that the only way I would do so, is if I set myself both a challenge and deadlines. Of course, blogging about it is important because then it actually makes me keep those deadlines.
I’m calling it the “Weekly Art Project”. Every week I would complete one painting. To make it more focused, I will choose a different topic every month, so that each month I’d produce four works centered around one theme. I decided that this first month’s theme is going to be “Still Life in Watercolor”.
I’ve already identified several weaknesses in finishing my first painting (in years I might add), which are giving me ideas for future monthly topics to tackle those very weaknesses. This first one actually includes two things I’m most afraid of in a painting: large empty spaces or surfaces, and fabric. I actually created the setup I painted with lighting and everything. I think I acquitted myself fairly well but with definite room for improvement in the future. Excuse some of the strange highlights, scanning and taking a picture of this is exposing paint and paper deformation in certain places in strange way. Till next week.
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