Alan Spring 6

 Still can’t paint sitting down and I don’t like painting standing (but artists have been doing that for hundreds of years) so I did these two sketches sitting back in my recliner and drawing and painting that way. Greeta got me some watercolor pens for my birthday so I put in the color with those and used the wash brush to blend the colors. I just wish they labeled the colors with real labels. Like house paints they invent names like golf green instead of perylene green and even crazier names. 

Here’s a bowl of oranges, grapefruit and bananas that was on our kitchen table. Sketched in graphite. About 6 X 8 on 140# coldpress. 

And this is one of those Trader Joe’s orchids done with ink and watercolor on 5 X 7 140# coldpress. Had a difficult time blending watercolor pen colors on the page. 

  

I think I can draw a larger pic of something even though the backer board is cumbersome. I’ll try that next. Then, when I can sit down like a normal human being again, I’ll have something to paint.