Learning watercolor painting can feel pretty intimidating when you dive into the detailed instruction videos on YouTube. So much perfection! But I ran across a PBS show called Pocket Sketching that inspired me more to get started with this set of beautiful Japanese paints I got for Christmas.
The show's instructor, Kath Macaulay, is a hoot, and I like how she works with small scale papers and sketch books. My little dressing table works fine.
Her excellent motto is, learn enough to play for a lifetime. She laughs off her mistakes. Watercolor is actually pretty forgiving it you don't take it too seriously. And that can be said for many things.
"Have no fear of perfection. You'll never reach it." Salvador Dali
Monday is here after the long holiday break, so back to normal on our street with the school traffic roaring by twice a day. How nice to come and go as we pleased for two weeks and have a parking space in front of the house. Sometimes we feel like captives at home, but at least a nice place to be holed up.
Between the rain and dark, it takes a great deal of effort to leave home. The days of ample and free parking in West Seattle are long gone. On Friday night, we were so tired from taking down the decorations we couldn't face the crowded Junction and walking several blocks to the restaurant. So we postponed the Indian food idea and opted instead for delicious takeout from our Thai restaurant 2 blocks away. A good choice.
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