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OriginalGeek

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7. I bought a set of watercolor pencils
Mon Aug 6, 2012, 03:15 PM
Aug 2012

but they are still in the box - lol - I don't get a lot of free time to paint and I have no good place to do it at the moment (when I draw it's just on a pad in my lap as I watch TV at night)....My wife and I went to the gulf coast (FL) for our anniversary last week and I took a picture out the window of the restaurant we were at - the window looked out over the bay at sunset - and I'm gonna try painting that picture for her - or at least using that photo as a guide for my painting...sometimes I'm too ambitious though lol...but the watercolor pencil set came with a pad of several sheets of paper so I can screw it up several times as I learn and before I have to go buy new paper.

Here is the pic I took with my phone - I will try to clean it up for the painting (get rid of the hummus maybe, etc...lol)


and I will probably try to combine the better parts of this pic too (lose the transformer and such)


the first one they still had the sunscreen pulled down but then they lifted it so I snapped another pic before it got too dark...and I'll make stuff up too...that's the beauty of art - no law says I gotta reproduce the photo exactly...

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Watercolor tutorials? [View all] OriginalGeek Jul 2012 OP
Hi, I live in Boston .... I take classes at Wellesley. Theirs is only one of six in the secondwind Jul 2012 #1
Thank you! OriginalGeek Jul 2012 #3
Just checking in, to see how you are coming along. If you have any more questions, secondwind Aug 2012 #6
I bought a set of watercolor pencils OriginalGeek Aug 2012 #7
no but i can tell you mopinko Jul 2012 #2
Cool! OriginalGeek Jul 2012 #4
here's a short tute on watercolor pencils. Whisp Jul 2012 #5
Spam deleted by UrbScotty (MIR Team) Mandeep Dhiman Aug 2012 #8
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