Awesome watercoloring class today.
I stayed until 8 pm.

I painted a pepper and I actually got it to look bright orange!
Thank you, thank you.
I’m quite happy with how it turned out.

Of course, there were four peppers on display, red, orange, yellow and green, but I only painted the orange bell pepper. Hey, artists have a right to their own reality.
Shut up.

What was so awesome, was that Kate, our teacher, painted with us today.
At first I thought it was blah. No, it was worse than blah. She had water and blotches of color running everywhere! There were barely any comprehensible shapes on her yellow under painting!

Ooh, yellow under painting. That’s a technical art term. Sweet.

And I thought, geesh, I’m taking classes from her?

Then she put the pink shadows, dots of pink here and there. It went from bad to worse.
It looked like tons of fun though.
Everything was free-flowing and unstructured… and water running everywhere – something I’ve been painstainkly trying to avoid!

Then, she put on her dark pink shadows and already, with only yellow, pink and dark pink-red, her work looked like a masterpiece!

And I thought, oh, man, I’m not doing well at all!

She didn’t finish her work, but when she started putting her colors, everything looked amazing. I can’t wait to see the finished product.

It looked so easy too, all fun and hardly any effort. A lot of waiting though, because it was an incredibly wet painting.

I tried painting like that a few minutes ago. Man, the fact that I’ve only had 6 classes and barely any practice definitely showed. Oh well, I’ll just have to be patient I suppose. After all, it’s taken me 13 years playing the piano to be able to play the way I do.

Oh dear, I’m in BIG trouble.