Watercolor-A-Day Progress Report:
09/21/17 (top): Ombré background work to potentially use for a wedding invitation suite. Mimicked a style I saw on Pinterest and thought it came out just ok. The style I saw used blues and greens which I felt more adhered to the ombré style of these cards. I’ll probably just scan them and have on hand if I ever want a background like that.
09/22/17 (middle left): Practice work for a map of Oahu that would go along with the invitation. Request was for a few select places to be noted on the map along with some icons. I created these two at first just to get a feel for what colors to use and to practice the shape of Oahu. I used vellum and traced the outline off my computer screen in 2 different sizes to fit on one page. The hue of the blue for the ocean wasn’t as green as I’d like- so I’m glad I gave it a practice round before attempting the real thing.
09/23/17(middle right): My only living grandparent, my grandmother on my father’s side, is now 97 and getting a bit forgetful here and there, but for the most part she has a pretty sound mind. The other day, however, she was explaining that when she was young, she’d have to make sure all the males she would hang out with met her father and get the “ok” from him. She said something along the lines of “he wouldn’t let any good for nothing scrimtoast types get through”- to which both my father and I frowned and said “what?? what’s scrimtoast?” She had already forgotten she even said that- we looked it up- it’s not a real word (ha!). Had to pay some sort of homage to this new word by making her a little scrimtoast watercolor. Oh to be 97...
09/24/17 (bottom): First attempt at the Oahu map with the few symbols completed. Diamond Head, Honu near Hanauma Bay, and longboard near Haleiwa. Had to make the map way larger than the first 2 attempts as the symbols were meant to be quite small (the image will be condensed and printed eventually onto a smaller paper to be included with the invitations). I’ll have to scan and type over the image for each of the locations requested. Decent looking so far, but I’m sure after I edit it, it’ll look much cleaner and ready to print.
