Skulls

With the cold weather I can't go outside to paint and a few winters ago I began casting about for other options. I started a skull oil painting in the basement and was extremely unhappy with it, despite several sittings and spending more than 15 hours at the easel. So I decided to try some watercolors, a medium I've more or less ignored for the past twenty years. My first attempt was too ambitious, so I scaled things back to a single subject.

My reason for avoiding watercolors is that I felt I could not do them justice given my limited time to make art and my commitment to oil paintings. Nothing ticks me off more than people who say, "I'm a painter, and a fabric artist, and I write poetry, and I'm a singer/songwriter." I want to say, "Pick two of them and do the third as a hobby." However, I was reasonably pleased with my original efforts and I have been steadily working my way through the skulls in my collection.