I’d planned to sketch at Sebastopol’s Apple Blossom Festival last Sunday, but it was hot and when I thought of the crowds and my lovely cool garden at home, the plan changed. From my chair on the patio beneath the redwoods there would be no musicians to sketch, no lively festival activities. Just the same old house and garden I look at every day. But I could sit in the low flight pattern of the birds on their way to the bird feeder and watch the gold finches bathe in the fountain and listen to variety of bird choruses and loud humming of the bees in the Australian tea tree.
fountain pen and w/c in Hahnemuhl Watercolor Book, 6 X 8″
And of course the butterfly action, Tiger Swallowtails and Pipevine Swallowtails.
I tend to suffer from the malady of all enthusiastic souls. . .FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) but I think I discovered for now at least a way to avoid the symptoms while staying home.
Oh, but then I guess I will have FOMO when I’m away from home too, knowing I will miss the baby quail parades and hungry caterpillars growing. I guess there’s no cure for FOMO.
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what do you tend to use first, pen or watercolour…
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I use pen first. Actually I might just block in the large shapes quickly with pencil – 2 min. Then come in with pen. Then watercolor and sometimes a bit more pen at the end.
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