Sources of Inspiration for Watercolor Paintings
Look Around the House at Your Books
I have a garden book on Roses organized by “type, size, color and season of interest”. That last bit “season of interest” caught my attention… which season would I be interested in watercolor painting using floral still life as a subject?
Find Artistic Inspiration in Your Book Cases
What if I pledged to a whole Season of Interest? Or a whole season of painting ideas harvested by flipping through garden books? Or cook books? Or a coffee table book on weather and cloud patterns?
Get Ideas from the Book Shelf
Maybe we should focus a little more on fluffing our incentive to be interested in everything. Sort of like committing to lose ten pounds, but more fun.
Look Around You
This season, let’s nurture and grow our curiosity. How about we exercise our attentiveness muscles? Let’s ask more questions, take closer notice, talk a little less and observe more. How about you?
Thanks for stopping by and I’ll see you in the next post!
Belinda
Art Quote
In Boston during the early twentieth century, artists such as Edmund Tarbell, Frank Benson and William Paxton practiced a form of painting that became known as the Boston School. These artists were participants in a revival of interest in the work of Dutch painter Jan Vermeer, thanks largely to the scholarship of Boston painter and instructor Philip Hale. Vermeer’s preoccupation with the female figure in an attitude of reverie, with light filtered across her form became a central theme of the Boston School. When Joseph DeCamp moved to Boston from Cleveland, he became one of the school’s primary proponents.
James M. Keny
@Cindy, thanks for stopping in. And as a fellow maker of small art, it’s nice to meet you! 🙂
@ Barbara – Thanks for the compliments – and we’re sisters on that one; I couldn’t talk less either. My mouth and hands are always a blur (italians, gesturing. we can’t help it) You and I will see each other one of these days, I’m sure of it. 🙂 xo
Belinda your paintings are lovely! Thank you for sharing 🙂
Hi Belinda,
Beautiful work and thoughtful post. I like the idea of being interested in everything. Very cool. I can’t commit to talking less, because one of my pleasures in life is talking (and listening) to friends. Like the quote too.
I wish I could come and see you at the Thousand Oaks Artwalk.
XOXOXO Barbara
@maryellen (&stella), hello, you. I like that – interested every day, all the time. Super hero curiousity. And focus-shmokus… Who’s got time for that?! 🙂
I adopted an “interested Every Day” attitude a few months ago. The only drawback is staying focused because there are so many things to love! Mary Ellen and Stella