Trying to get back on track by artsygang

Trying to get back on track

Yes, I really need to hire someone to take photos of my paintings :D
I got permission from @borof to paint from https://365project.org/borof/365/2021-06-26
I really struggle with my painting flow. And I can not figure out what is happening. But this was so nice to paint. I used watercolour and ink.
@monikozi
@borof Thank you very much for allowing us to paint from this. This is my attempt to render it in watercolour and ink.
July 6th, 2021  
Aaaahaaahaaaa... I'm looking at this photo and realize just now that the pillars / columns are not aligned. The left one is further back than the right one. Well, the one month lack of exercise does have a saying.
July 6th, 2021  
I think you do well
July 6th, 2021  
They're not offset, it's the angle you painted it from!! This looks simple but the details and shading show the care you took over this
July 6th, 2021  
I like the colours, like a house made out of Edam cheese
July 6th, 2021  
You have captured it beautifully in this watercolour. I love the detail that you have provided in the windows.
July 6th, 2021  
A lovely scene. You gave captured the details nicely. @monikozi
July 6th, 2021  
@monikozi You have such a remarkable talent for seeing details. I think it’s terrific that you notice them like that. Your observation would have completely escaped me which is probably why you’re such a magnificent artist and I’m such a novice! That being said, as with any artistic endeavor, other artists might know what you know but the general public only sees the composition as a whole and it is terrific!
July 6th, 2021  
@monikozi - ah, at last, i've been waiting for you to come out of that doldrum we both fell in. good exercise to get back into the painting mojo. lovely colours. i don't see anything wrong with the pillars, except that the right one needs a bit of shading to equal the left one. i don't know what i'm saying so if i'm wrong, don't mind me. but aces to you, friend.

i, too, started to paint yesterday after three weeks of missing the mojo. i had to force myself. i did one of the seascape tutorials but based it also on a couple of my old photos. my cousin in the old country (we were best friends growing up until they moved when we were teenagers) called and when i showed her my paintings she said to draw a seaside scene for her. so i did and now if only this humidity gets out of the way, i can probably finish the 3 frames i've abandoned when the mojo went awol.
July 6th, 2021  
@monikozi - i see it now. 😊
July 6th, 2021  
@777margo @30pics4jackiesdiamond @casablanca @wakelys @salza @grammyn @summerfield
My dear ladies! You have no idea how much I appreciate your support and encouragement. I am glad I made this step, and I really hope Mr Mojo is here to stay for a while. Which I wish you as well.
July 7th, 2021  
@monikozi I've been throwing away my recent fakled works!! Quite cathartic to lesrnbshsts gone wrong, and a little bit right, use the other side of the paper, repeat critique and rip it up!!!
July 7th, 2021  
@30pics4jackiesdiamond Why rip it up? Well, for starters, if it is cathartic, by all means rip it up! (you won't go to prison for that). But otherwise, I've seen some cool collage stuff done from fails. I think I have all my papers that I've painted on since I started last year. I think I only threw a couple which were really terrible and of no use, even in collage.
By the way, I should do some celebration painting. Last year, about this time, I picked up the brushes and started off on my painting journey. Whoop! Whoop!
July 7th, 2021  
@monikozi You only started a year ago?!
July 7th, 2021  
@grammyn yes. About this time.
July 7th, 2021  
@monikozi OK, Now I am bowing in humble adoration!
July 7th, 2021  
@grammyn no reason to do so, dear Katy!
July 7th, 2021  
@monikozi I so like the composition of this, I can see why the colors and structure of the photo enticed you to paint this.
July 8th, 2021  
@theredcamera Thank you very much, Ellen.
July 8th, 2021  
@monikozi Wonderfully done Monika! I admire the way how you painted the columns, or more correctly how you did only a part!
July 8th, 2021  
@jacqbb Thank you, Jacqueline! I had no fantasy about how to do the rest :D
July 8th, 2021  
This is a great picture. If you're interested in the original unedited version, you can see it here. https://photos.app.goo.gl/2VLvJXHx3QKrzWG69
July 9th, 2021  
@borof - thank you for the link. i just might try this exercise.
July 12th, 2021  
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