The group I paint with on Tuesday mornings went to Spring Lake Library this week. Most of us use a sketchbook dedicated to our Tuesdays. The one I am currently using just wasn't working for the type of watercolor sketching I normally do but I have more pages to fill so I decided to add some gesso, collage paper and masking tape along with coffee splatters to them to see if that helped. It did this week but what I painted isn't what was there.
Spring Lake Library has violets on it's windowsills. Someone was sitting at the table with the sun hitting it so I went to the one in the shade. I loved the look of the pot and thought it would work perfectly with my recently doctored paper. I quickly drew in the shape and a few violets just because I thought the pot needed to hold something. Then I began to examine the pot. It wasn't what it appeared to be. The reality -- an ordinary garden variety clay pot sitting in a dirty plastic container. Oh well, I'll just paint what drew me to it in the first place and I was correct, it does work on the doctored paper.
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