Cactus Water Color Sketch

Copyright by S. Ciaccio 2009

"Cactus Water Color Sketch"

I took my water colors outside and painted the same cactus. I enjoyed the process. I promise myself that I will make time to do this more often. I found myself thinking back to my water color classes in college, most of the time my work resembled the bottom of the Platte River, nice brown muddy water. It wasn't till the last 3 weeks I finally discovered not to overwork or over think my work. Just go out and play with it!

Sketching

Copyright by S. Ciaccio 2009

"Cactus sketch"

I am trying to get in the habit of sketching more. I am finding it hard to get back into to practice of just drawing for the fun of it. Sometimes the fear of "creating" something profound gets in the way of just going out and drawing. I get too wrapped up in making "ART" and forget just to have fun with it. We need to paint like children when all we wanted was to have something to put on the refrigerator door, stop worrying about a larger audience .