I have been experimenting with gouache, and have a lot to learn. I like the opacity, am getting used to the matte finish, and am working with the quick-ish drying. This is a gouache painting of an oil painting I did a number of years ago. I like the deep darks I can achieve, and I can carve with the paint as with oil paints. I can drag dry paint over other paint, and the rapid drying on the paper is different, but interesting.
This is my 500th daily drawing. These five hundred days have passed quickly! I am enjoying looking back over the last year and almost a half. I have decided to put some of the daily drawings on my web site under a new sketchbook tab. Take a look.
As always, thank you for looking at my daily endeavors. I enjoy your feedback.
Today is Mothers' Day, my third day home since leaving the hospital after a total knee replacement. My job; rest, exercise, eat well, ice, rest, repeat... Here is a drawing of my day; leg up in an ice wrap, getting up every hour with my walker. I cut up some fresh strawberries, put some roses in a vase, got a Mothers' Day phone call from Germany where our daughter is staying for a few days, called Nana to with her a good day, made a few friend phone calls, napped, and had a wonderful dinner made by a friend. It was a good day.
