Chinese Painting

My mother produces beautiful Chinese watercolor paintings. With my new found interest in watercolor, I geek out on her art supply when I visited her. She paints almost daily so she had her paints and materials all laid out already. I was curious and I couldn't resist sitting down and start playing with it. I didn't want to use her nice rice paper so I grab an index card to practice. It was quick and turned out better than I expected. The little sketch didn't look like Chinese watercolor but it was painted with traditional Chinese watercolor art supply (except the paper). You know what? I liked the materials so much I stole couple brushes from her. :p

Btw, I couldn't believe how inexpensive her art supply is. All her art supply probably cost less than one of my watercolor paper blocks!

Underpainting

I finished two drawings and they are going to be painted over with watercolor. It's scary and stressful to do that especially when you spend so much time on the drawings and there's that possibility it could be ruined by bad coloring. Eeek!

Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA

I finally finished the last of five in the block sheet of paper. This one took a week to do (mostly after work when there's day light left). I had started this painting in the workshop with a finish sketch but didn't have the time to put the color on it. I was so scare I would mess it up especially after Brosen had helped me started with beautiful clouds.