Welcome, lovely humans, to The Painted Presence Project, where I plan to paint in silence for ten minutes a day for thirty days, all on the same 11 x 15 inch piece of watercolour paper. While this studio diary will only include images, there are full length videos available on Patreon!
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of working on something that WASN’T The Painted Presence Project and that was really interesting because I could feel how the project has shifted me. I’ve become much more patient with whatever wants to come through. I don’t want to rush. I don’t want to push. I want to touch down with whatever the next mark or colour is without worrying at all about what comes next.
This is bringing me so much peace.
It also means whatever I paint takes longer because without the constraint of that ten minute timer, painting feels luxurious. It feels expansive. And it makes room for my inner visionary who just wants to stretch out and spill over into the painting process.
I didn’t expect such an obvious and lovely consequence of painting the way I am for the project, but here we are.
Today was mostly about glazing with Quinacridone Gold.
I touched up the eyes and mouth a bit with a brush tip pen as well.
And now I get to work on something else for a longer stretch! *Does a happy little hip wiggle*
See you tomorrow,
xo Effy
P.S. Folks who are in my classes over on Into The Wild (my teaching network) or Patreon are getting video content every day throughout the course of this challenge. Folks who are subscribed to my YouTube channel will be getting video updates weekly or so. There may be stuff going up on TikTok. There will definitely be posts going up on Instagram.
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