I’m writing a children’s book about finding one’s identity. What could be better than a SENGI as the main character—one that’s neither a mouse nor an elephant?
Right now, I’m gathering all the information I can find about this cute little animal and sketching the character.
Sometimes I just can’t think of anything to paint. I mean, I feel like being creative, but I’m missing that spark of inspiration. But mushrooms always work, somehow. Besides mushrooms I paint a lot (and I mean a LOT) of sea life creatures like fishes, turtles, octopusses, jellyfishes and so on..
I made myself a little sketchbook here out of scraps of my Arches watercolor paper. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize that watercolors are wet—so wet, in fact, that the whole sheet of paper gets wavy. How do you handle your sketchbooks when you paint with very wet paint? Does that not bother you, or is there a trick to getting the pages smooth again? I guess I’ll have to spray them from the back with the flower spray bottle… but every single page? sigh
Maybe I’ll just leave it as is. Oh well… they’re just loose sketches. I really need to relax more.
