Yesterday morning, I went out for a walk around our neighborhood. So good to be back in the nature! After two and half weeks in Tokyo, I was surprisingly able to quickly readjust to the quiet, still and spacious Dutch countryside surrounded by lots of beautiful flora and fauna. The flora bit may be less due to being winter but the fauna: flocks of sheep and lambs roaming around the empty field. They seem to be enjoying their space too! And when I returned home, I was hoping to get down to painting some sheep with my newly-purchased art supplies from Japan: A set of Harmonia Granulating watercolor tubes by Kusakabe and a thick #6 traditional Japanese calligraphy brush. And what makes this watercolor so special? When applied, the colors somehow diverge and leave a gradient of shades, ie. if purple, then some pink and blue emerge separately. How cool is that! And hence I tested the first three blue tubes of paint: Purple Spinel, Starry Winter and Dusk Sky.
What was originally intended to be a painting of a sheep,though, turned out to be an abstract piece. Once I began, I realised it was not going to work and there was no way out of it. It was not properly drawn from the beginning, and as you know with watercolor you can’t go over it or erase it. So… I just continued and merely played around with this magical watercolor and practice circular strokes with my new thick calligraphy brush. And how amazing this turned out to be! I showed it to my boyfriend who told me how beautiful it looked and not to change a thing. Perhaps he was right. How about turn it into an abstract painting? Whatever your interpretation may be, I am even inclined to thinking that this plethora of circularstrokes could indeed resemble a close up of a sheep’s curly fur! Now a good example of a beautiful mistake…
My Kawaii Quarter 