First painting

Hi!  How's everyone doing?

Welcome to my blog.

I have always been a little in love with watercolors,

in fact when my kids were little, I took a class in 

watercolors through adult ed in our town.  

I didn't really have time to dedicate to it and after

the course was done, I didn't pursue it anymore.

Recently, I have had a resurgence of that interest and 

decided that I want to do more watercoloring.
I have been doing it in combination with stamping,

but not creating anything on my own.

Unfortunately, there isn't a course available to me right now,

but the internet is.  I've watched a lot of videos showing different

techniques.

(Let me apologize for the poor color in my pictures today.
The paper is not as yellow as it looks, it's actually much

whiter than it shows in these pictures.)

One day I was playing around with some watercolor paints,

thinking I'd make a background for some cards. 

When I looked at this, I could see hydrangeas, 

so I put it aside with the intention of figuring out how

to make it into just that.
I watched a video showing how to draw a hydrangea

and got the basic idea.

I practiced a little bit with some pencil and with great

trepidation, I picked up my Micron pen and put it to 

paper.  Once I got going on it, it wasn't so scary anymore.
It did take quite a while to put all those little flowers and leaves

on there, but it was worth it.

I'm fairly pleased with how it turned out, since

it was my first attempt at something like this.
Of course I have my criticisms of it and yes, I know

I'm really hard on myself,

but the leaves should have been bigger and the

shape a little different, fatter I think.

I would have liked to see the individual

"bunches" more defined and I could have been 

more consistent with the size of the flowers within each bunch.

Like I said, I'm pretty critical of myself, but 

that's how we learn, right?
Over all, I do like it and I'll be trying something

like this again.  But I do want to try some other

things too.

Any of you into watercolor?
Have you taken classes?
Learned from vidoes?
Just played around and learned that way?

Thanks for stopping in,

I hope you'll come again soon.

Until next time,

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