Artist Playroom has a theme this week that I've been meaning to explore for .... well, forever. Series. Work something in a series. I've done it here and there, but today I sat down specifically with an idea to explore and got started on a series.
So I started with watercolor backgrounds (I miss using my watercolors - they've been pushed aside in my eagerness to try all sorts of new things). My thought with the top drawing was to use the watercolor shapes to dictate where birds would go. Made a couple of early goofs so it became my trial-error-sketch page.....
I had fun playing with my bird and dandelion motifs.....there's LOTS more room to work with this and I'll be doing it because I love birds and I can almost draw a couple of generic shapes.....at least well enough that they're recognizable as birds! :)
Last year I made a mini series of palm trees using different media - collage, paint, etc.
Also, watercolors painting trees:
The thing is....there's no way I'm done exploring any of these themes so the series will continue. Does it count if there's a year between pieces?
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Just Add Water Silly to see even more great examples of working in a series. Or maybe someone will paint/draw something about a baseball 'world series', or a television series or a ......
