As part of my OLW, COMMIT for March, I'm still playing with watercolors. Over the next three days, you'll see three cards that resulted from one afternoon session. I'm learning quite a bit: I need to work more slowly, and I'm better off with a good #4 watercolor brush. Patience, too, is important. Waiting for one section to dry before moving on is also important. All the flowers I watercolored came from the same Simon Says set, Delicate Flowers, which was part of the May 2019 card kit.
Here's the first card, another for the birthday stash.
I used Altenew's 36 pan watercolors for these flowers. It's one of my favorite watercolor sets for painting flowers. Almost no mixing needed since the colors are so fresh and bright.
Because I wanted to play along with the Addicted to CAS challenge: Circle, I used a PTI Shape Shifter Circle #2 die as a backdrop for the flower. I think most CAS blogs now accept a color as the "white space" and this one is Spring Rain, also from PTI. The blue cardstock is its truest color in this photo.
I'm entering this in the Addicted to CAS Challenge: Circle.
The Flower Challenge: Anything Goes:
And the AAA Birthday Game: Flowers:
We made an early grocery store run this morning, needing to purchase a gift card for RAIHN (Rochester Interfaith Hospitality Network). My friend and I provide dinner each time our church hosts families from RAIHN. Needless to say, during this time of seclusion, we are not hosting families. We are, however, providing dinners for a family that is residing in the RAIHN apartment. We arrived just as Wegmans opened, and were pleasantly surprised to find the shelves reasonably full. A week ago there was no meat except for a few packages of hamburger, no salad dressing, no bananas . . . you get the picture. Today I was able to pick up ingredients for several of our favorite meals as well as some cleaning supplies we needed. It was relatively easy to stay appropriately distant from other shoppers, too. We go to the Wegmans flagship store which has wide aisles and ample cashiers so I feel as safe as I could be under the circumstances. We won't need to return again for at least a week, if not longer. I am a fan of fresh produce so am likely to make a quick run once every week or 10 days.
Hope you are finding good things to occupy your time. Sarah gave Tracy a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle for his birthday, and in three days, he's just about completed it. I'd like to say I helped, but if I put in 50 pieces that would be saying a lot. Granted, I also have not put in the time!
Stay safe!
