One Painting a Day – Week 5 and 6

Only 44 more weeks to go. Phew. I’ve been reading this book called One Continuous Mistake and it makes me think a lot about my painting. It gives Four Noble Truths of writing which I think can be applied to almost any practice:

1. Painters paint.
2. Painting is a process.
3. You don’t know what your painting will be until the end of the process.
4. If painting is your practice, the only way to fail is not to paint.

I went so long without painting that I was very rusty…now I feel it all coming back again…and in new ways.

Here’s what I painted as my daily practice the past two weeks:

A watercolor:

The power of imagination makes us infinite. – John Muir

A tiny Statue of Liberty:

Here are a few photos I took of the process:

Circles:

Lettering:

A few tiny watercolor paintings in lockets:

Abstract pine trees:

Reclaimed wood and driftwood hearts:

And here’s everything I painted last week:

Maya Angelou. I still don’t know what quote I’m going to use 

Loosely painted forest with a Thoreau quote:

A watercolor trout:

An abstract watercolor wash with a quote:

Mountains:

Harriet Tubman:

A custom order of a tiny pig and dragonfly:

And I keep going….

I do list some of my artwork for sale. You can find it on Etsy here. 

All my daily paintings can be found indexed here!