Watercolor Experiments in Landscape Book

 Experimenting continues in my Jots and Tittles handmade journal as I try to get my mojo going again.  It's still really cold here, but the ice is finally gone after two weeks. Some people still don't have electricity, and there is still a massive amount of cleanup and repairs to be done with fallen trees and branches, but things are looking up now. Thankful!

While we've been housed in, I've played with what was within arm's reach of my recliner. I've lost my India ink and have searched among the boxes for it multiple times, as I want to use it on the "Wild Garden" at the end. I get so overwhelmed when I start to organize my art stuff that I sit down and put it off. Been doing that for a long time now.

Anyway, here's what I played with last week, plus I started a long collage lady mixed media piece over the weekend. All are from my imagination, the garden one being inspired by a Karen Stamper class in Sketchbook Revival. The rest, I just went wherever the brush wanted to take me with watercolor already on my palette. Not masterpieces, but fun to do and good practice!

The "garden" is mix of various mark making tools in black, brown, off white, and white. If I can ever find my India ink, I will add a bigger branch in front.

These gardens are so much fun to make, and I have done a few, but while I was working on this one over a couple of days, I went back and watched Karen Stamper's class video in Sketchbook Revival 2026, and realized that I've been doing mine all wrong. Mine are much denser and darker than hers, and she leaves spaces for things, where I cover mine and keep layering things over until I can live with it.

Because these are 6" x 18" they are too long for my scanner, so I had to make photos with my camera. This is a large as I could make them, but you get the idea.

Now, I'm working on a very tall collage lady in this same book!

But, right now, I have to do my PT exercises for my hip/back. Because of one thing, or another, we've missed six days now, and I sure don't want to get back in the shape I was in, where I couldn't even get out of a chair without bad pain. 

Anyway, that's it for this post. Thanks for visiting! Keep on keeping on!