Today’s is supposed to be a story told in 3 minutes sketches from throughout the day.

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Those seedlings are new, but the Easter decoration came home from school a year or so ago.

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Back to direct watercolour today. How nice to get it done early and not feel the pressure to perform. Even managed a couple extra fun sketches today which I’ll include in the monthly sketchbook.

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Before supper today my daughter was playing with these little animals, making a world for them from the place mats and other objects on the table. But we were hungry and late, and time was short. The sketch was poor so I decided to try out wet on wet colouring that I had read about on Marc Taro Holmes blog this morning.

What I learned was what I already suspected: that this paper is not good enough for watercolour techniques. Especially so because I was using the back of the previous day’s sketch and the paper already had wrinkles into which the water flowed, taking pigment with it to form bands and backruns.

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Direct watercolour but from a reference photo as I can’t hold my watch and sketch at the same time. Ultimately a failure of nerve with the perspective but pleasing shadows I think.

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Yes, it’s this view again. Nobody was watching TV today. But there were up to three video conference calls going on at once.

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Abandoned direct watercolour for this one as the light was not interesting enough.

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Another selfie. And again my daughter came to the rescue: I’ve already used the other mirrors in the house, she leant me this one.

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