A Watercolour a Day

• 2013-05-28

  

  May 27th, 2013. 

• 2013-04-04

  

  April 4th, 2012. I made this cross-section of my new stairs for a project I am working on right now and I figured, HEY! IT’S A WATERCOLOUR! I’ll put it on the ol’ blog, you know? 

• 2013-03-14

  

  March 14th, 2013. It sure has been a while since I have painted a watercolour! I painted this little bushbaby at Drink n’ Draw last night and I am so happy to have something to post today! May I never go this long without painting again!

• 2013-01-10

  

  January 9th, 2012. Thinking of you, my great uncle, Joe. Sending the strongest, brightest love that I can (and also this diamond cause it’s the strongest substance on earth… and also a fast-as-lightning recovery x x). 

• 2013-01-07

  

  January 7th, 2012. So I smashed this onion in half and wept profusely whilst chopping it into tiny little pieces. I thought, anything that makes one weep, one must paint! Also, may I just use this as a platform to say that any tips I’ve ever been given to avoid the onion tears are absolute rubbish. Nothing ever helps! (Purple onions are pretty though, aren’t they?)

• 2013-01-05

  

  January 5th, 2012. Well, as it turns out, painting watercolours makes me really, really happy and not painting them makes me really, really sad. And so! After 4 days of being absent, here I resume this blog, no longer as a 365 project but just as a blog of my watercolours and my days! So, today I was waiting for the streetcar and the sky was just this beeaauutiful blue, the telephone lines just moving through it and I had this thought: A blue sky always fills me with hope and happiness. It really is just an inherently optimistic sight, isn’t it? (I also want to dedicate this post to my grandparents and my great uncle Joe, love)

• 2012-12-31

  

  December 31st, 2012. My goodness me, today marks the end of A Watercolour a Day and to be honest I am quite emotional about it. This project has been so unbelievably rewarding, so incredibly meaningful and so much fun. What I have learned most over this year is that everything is transient and painting a watercolour a day has forced me to be cognizant of the present and the living within it. Since 2012 was a leap year, the 366th day of the year won’t come around for another 4 years. This subway transfer is the most obviously transient thing I could choose to paint today. It will fall quickly in the past as it is only valid for 15-20 mins, as will this moment, as will this hour, as will this day, as will this year. So, my fellow humans, with this I bid 2012 and A Watercolour a Day farewell, I send love in every direction possible and my wish for all, today and in 2013, is to be here now because there is nothing else. 

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  December 30th, 2012. Oh, the blues. They feel whatever you feel and oh how I love it so. 

• 2012-12-29

  

  December 29th, 2012. I bought new skates today!! Do you have any idea how much I love ice skating? Do you understand how excited I am to have new skates?! DO YOU WANT TO GO ICE SKATING WITH ME?!?!

• 2012-12-28

  

  December 28th, 2012. I am in my last few days of A Watercolour a Day and I could not finish the year without painting my dogs, Toby and Jazz, one last time. They are the sweetest things on earth and my days are always better when I get to kiss and squeeze their little faces!