Water Color

I received a Water Color Painting set as a gift from one of my office exchange gifts (because that’s the only thing I’ve put on my wish list, haha).

I got a whole pad of water color pad (11”x15” – enough size for my amateur attempts), around 10 pieces of paint brushes of different types, and a 12 piece water colour pencil too! Pretty generous for a 400 Peso amount we’ve set for the event.

I have 3 sets of Prang water colors which have been stuck in my cabinet since college, but never got to really use them ‘by heart’. In fact, contrary to the real artists, my water color sets has always been clean… I wash the excess colors, or stain on its container every after use (definitely not a very normal trait of an artist!)

I’ve always liked water color painting but wasn’t really exemplary on the area. Though I’ve had a few 1.0’s from my water color painting subject during college – all from luck (tsamba ba!); not really from inborn artistic hands, nevertheless, I have always been ‘challenged’ on how I can capture pictures in my head and is still hoping I will have real masterpieces someday.

I guess I never had enough patience: patience to wait for each layer of paint to dry off, or patience to mix the correct colors that I want, or patience to make very, very slow and steady brush marks. Most importantly, I also lack the courage to show people my works so I can have their comments.

But then it’s never too late to try again, right?

So once more, I begin my water color 'masterpiece' attempts … wish me luck!

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Maybe I never got to really know what I want as my subject or theme.
Any ideas out there?