New watercolor sketches

You can tell I was out of practice on sketching! The top two sketches I did a few days ago, the bottom three I did yesterday.

I just got Cathy (Kate) Johnson's new book - Artist's Journal Workshop - and love it!!!!!!! If you're just getting into painting you need this book! And if you've been painting for years you need this book! There's a lot of information on new products, how to use them, what works best, ideas to try and just such an inspiration!!! Thank you Kate for sharing your knowledge with us!

I've been slacking off on my painting and Kate's book gave me the kick in the pants that I needed to get back to it. Now if I can just focus and keep painting... I really do miss it. I used to paint huge watercolor paintings and enter them into shows. I really miss just the painting itself. So I'm thinking of giving up some of my other mixed media and altered art stuff so I'll have room to set up my drafting table again.... We'll see how that goes. I enjoy all of the other art too but I can't do every different kind of art that comes along, even though it is fun! I don't have enough room and it gets expensive! Hmmm, I'll have to think on this for awhile.

Thanks so much for stopping by and Happy 4th of July and have a fun and safe weekend!