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!
It’s Sunday, and SHE WENT. I was just not ready to start “focusing” and so I pulled out some shiny stuff and played with it with my fingers.
I have a few tubes of Pebeo DYNA paints that have been sitting in a drawer for years now (I KNOW YOU CAN RELATE! *LOL*) and I caught a glimpse of them while was looking around a little wildly for the answer to the question WHAT NOW.
I loved the violet blue (translation: pink) and I could have stayed with that all damed day because it felt like it was hitting me right in my heart chakra.
But then, oh, then…the yellow green.
My gods.
I woke up to snow after a bit of a disappointing evening that made me wonder if my person is even here in this city. It seems that every time I put myself “out there”, I find well.
Obnoxious drunks. People pretending not to have partners. Anti-vaxx and Maple Maga. Or they are so old as to make wonder if they want a partner or a geriatric nurse.
Disheartening.
But these colours?
Heartening.
I finished with the Indian Yellow and fluorescent magenta as if to say “the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful” and left it at that.
I’m curious where she’ll take me tomorrow, and yes, we’ve established that she’s *definitely* a she.
See you tomorrow.
xo
Effy
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