On the Making of the Legacy
Cheesh! What a challenging art day.
I took on this project that just seems way more than I can handle, and I'm feeling it. I'm sure in the end, it will be worth it but for now all I can say is . . . cheesh!
My vision for this piece is a series of three panels, which will incorporate water color, pictures and other media (in other words, I don't know yet).
First off, I decided I wanted each panel to be a certain size, and so I had to cut the heavy stock watercolor paper I'm using. I guess I should mention at this point that the one and only job I've ever been fired from required me to cut paper. I'm not kidding! I worked at a law school library and my task was to cut card stock and glue it onto paperback books (to preserve paperworks I suppose, but I never asked).
First off, I decided I wanted each panel to be a certain size, and so I had to cut the heavy stock watercolor paper I'm using. I guess I should mention at this point that the one and only job I've ever been fired from required me to cut paper. I'm not kidding! I worked at a law school library and my task was to cut card stock and glue it onto paperback books (to preserve paperworks I suppose, but I never asked).
I'm sorry to report my cutting skills have not improved in the last 20 years. They were right to fire me! Take a look at this edge -- rough and uneven:
Next problem . . . I mean challenge. I'm working with water color for the first time, and I'm scared! So I've been roughing out my ideas on scrap paper and using prisma watercolor pencils. But the quality of the paper is not the same, so needless to say the rough drafts look like crap. Sigh.
Finally managed to a gesture drawing outline of what I'm trying to do. It's rough obviously.
Here it is painted. It's getting better! No, it's not what I thought I was going to do, but for my first effort (and given my fear of painting at all!) I'll take it.
And here it is finished:
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