Lesson Two in Find Your Joy was about trying something new. We were to use new tools and colours we don't normally use on a familiar subject. "Notice what you enjoy and what you don't", Louise instructed.
I used my 2 least favorite colours, purple and orange, but couldn't resist adding ochre and grey. I used a fan brush and a flat brush. (I usually use rounds). I found a stick in my desk drawer with 2 different ends.
I enjoyed everything about doing this, although the feeling was different than when I worked wet on wet in Lesson One. I felt very calm and peaceful doing this. (Lesson One was joyful and exuberant.)
I'm usually impatient and uninterested with this level of detail, but I found the fan brush fascinating and fun. And I wanted to make tick marks with the stick over and over. It was all like some kind of meditation.
I even enjoyed the colours. I had to dive into a set of pan watercolors to find an orange and a purple, but these colours might find their way onto my shopping list. If I'm paying attention to what I enjoy and what I don't, I would have to say that I don't enjoy mixing large quantities of paint colours. I never mix enough and then it is hard to match.
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