water color zinnia

Water color and Van Morrison. Ahhh...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=van+morrison+documentary

water color zinnia

 Turns out staying mindful is the way to go with water color. No spacing out and just painting willy nilly. One petal a time. I'm loving the faded pink in the middle!

water color zinnia

water color zinnia

I watched my friends water color on line for weeks before I could even begin to figure it out. I think I'm starting to get it.

So, I've been listening to Van Morrison...where was I back in the day. He is amazing! Into the Mystic! Wow! I guess there was SO much great music back then I just missed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpPSBzGEklE

We had a dog named Domino so that was the theme song at our house.

zinnia watercolor

So tempted to just color my zinnia with my new markers but not going to.

water color

A little progress. 

watercolor and ink sketch

Spent several hours sketching three vases of flowers and the very first line I made on the drawing was wrong. In water color, no matter how you try to correct, it is IMPOSSIBLE! Gawd.

Not a big deal but the water color paper is so expensive! I did learn that instead of doing three vases of dead zinnias, a closeup is better visually. So I'm going to use the wrong sketch to test my color and strokes before painting the closeup.