Art…Attacked!

I tried dealing with paint this time (it’s actually poster paint…I don’t really have ‘real’ watercolors). Obviously, I still have a long way to go. I’ve never really used paint as much; I’m more of a colored pencil, pencil or ink person. I don’t do still life that much either. Darn, I screwed the red one up.

I’m beginning to like paint, maybe even watercolors—it’s a lot faster than rendering with colored pencils. It’s hard to render the details with the limited brushes that I have. Not to mention how to ‘control’ the amount of paint and how wet the brush should be. Heh, I can’t even do a decent wash.

And I’ve recently attempted a portrait. I’ve been putting this off for the longest time until I learned that one of my colleagues is taking up art lessons and I guess I was motivated [or got envious, hehe]. I think it’s safe to say that it looks like a human being but making it look like someone is another story. ^_^ Haha, any guesses? [BTW, much thanks for the kind words of T-chan, Choco and K-chan on this]

Hmm…I think I’ll post this old pic I did years back. I used mostly fine line pens with points ranging from .2 to .8. Didn’t bother too much on the details. I’m never patient with details. My bad. I’m thinking of messing with pastel on still life next time...and I still owe K-chan 7 of our ‘art projects’.

But before that…I need to go back to being the grounded theorist. ^_~