rosa shared her hobby update, so here's mine...
In my childhood, my mother sent me to art class. I loved to draw portraits and paint still life in oils. I think I also wanted to take after my dad, who was an amateur artist. I abandoned that hobby as a young adult. Haven't done a thing with it since.
A few weeks ago, FB started feeding me posts from a site that posted a lot of Japanese watercolor paintings, and I was mesmerized by them. So I went to Domestika, which is a site that offers really cheap basic online classes, and for $9.99 I found a class in basic techniques in floral watercolor. Even when I was in my painting heyday, I hated watercolor because it's so hard to control, but now I kind of like that aspect of it. It's really a meditative lesson in letting go and literally going with the flow (of the water on the paper).
So I'm setting a challenge for myself to practice watercolor techniques for an hour a day. Here is part my first day's output--experimenting with wet paint on dry paper and drier paint on wet paper and various brush strokes.
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