Pansies can dream
Black marker and Caran D'Ache watercolour crayon
on Moleskine paper
3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches
Barbara Muir © 2015
I spent most of the weekend on the train. Iwas travelling in search of inspiration and
got it in the long, slow rumble of the train
ride between Toronto and Montreal and back
again.
One of the things I thought about in those
hours of travel came back to me tonight
when I wanted a quick sketch to think
about spring. Recently a friend told me
how she painted on planes. She
uses Caran D'Ache watercolour crayons
and a Q-tip. Tried that out tonight to
draw and paint these pansies. 'Soon!' I
keep saying, like the long, slow
train ride through 40 degrees below landscapes
thick with snow. Soon it will be spring.
Today is family day in Ontario, and
I spent it with my little family doing not
much of anything. It was really good to be
home.
Have a keeping-your-train-of-thought day.
wow I have missed a bunch of your posts and you've been painting and posting a lot this week! I love your cloud paintings that you are working on, there is something so timeless about cloud paintings. You are right the whole agonizing over art is such a waste of time...just get painting and see what happens. great advice. beautiful pansy watercolour sketch too, great idea for painting while travelling especially. have a great week. Thanks for all your uplifting posts and comments.
ReplyDeleteHi Sally,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much. Apparently we all do it. But then I think maybe everyone in every job does it. We're lucky that at the end of the agonizing there is work produced. Good for us. Love your work!
XOXOXOXOXO Barbara