Summer Projects!

I'm really starting to get the hang of painting with watercolors. Or at the very least I'm becoming more comfortable with them. So much so that I'm starting a few projects (and I'm bored, it's summer vacation).

My first project will be for a friend. She's given me her name in Chinese characters and one of them stands for "orchid". Seeing as how I love to paint flowers, I'm going to paint a branch of orchids and then write her name in characters on the painting. I've yet to figure out the composition but here are some preliminary sketches.

I like the second one better since it gives me more space to write her name. And I like to leave some of the paper blank instead of filling the whole thing with color.

My next project has to do with poetry. See, I love short poems. I admire those who can write a meaningful, or even cryptic, poem in just a few words or lines. William Carlos Williams is one of the poets that I admire for that. I painted his poem, "This is Just to Say"; the title of the poem is also the title of the painting. I'll be selling it hopefully, once I figure out a price anyways.

WIP

Final piece

I was so happy when I saw that watercolor works just fine on Bristol Vellum. I was kind of scared that the paper wouldn't be strong enough. But I'm so glad that it held and that the colors went on smoothly.