My Precious Moments

Here’s another Artist Trading Card – I made it tonight. It’s called My Precious Moments, in which Gollum meets the Precious Moments Figurine.

The becoming-an-artist thing is coming along well. I moved the computer room into the art studio and the art studio into the computer room, which gives the art studio more room and better light. I’ll post pictures soon.

I discovered why my new watercolour pencils seemed kind of anti-climatic. I had drawn a little doodly thing, and with great anticipation brushed water over it: the colours were supposed to blend together like watercolours. Nothing really happened except the paper got wet. I was disappointed. I actually entertained the idea that it was somehow MY fault, there was something wrong with my technique. Like there’s a wrong way to brush water over a doodle. Anyway, as I was organizing my supplies the other day I looked at the box and realized that they weren’t watercolour pencils after all. I had accidentally bought a box of plain old ordinary everyday coloured pencils, just like the other four boxes of coloured pencils I own.

So today I went to Wallack’s and bought myself a real box of watercolour pencils. Having Wallack’s around the corner from my office is both a blessing and a curse. I just can’t stay out of there at lunch time, and I never leave empty-handed. Today I bought the watercolour pencils and a portfolio (so that the drawings I haven’t yet drawn won’t get wrinkled). Speaking of which, I’m on Chapter 2 of Drawing for Dummies.