Exploring New projects and art lesson videos for beginners

watercolor orange

I am exploring some new projects and have put together a few watercolor art lesson videos for beginners in the last two weeks.

I have a two-day market event in two months with hardly any inventory at the moment. I reluctantly shift from finishing up ideas from my travel sketchbook to focusing on what theme I want my overall showing to be. I find it hard to get motivated at this time of year. It is normally my low productivity time and low ambition. The lingering winter and hints of spring set me on a path of contemplating my situation and who is in my life, how they fit, where I want to go, how I want to do that, and so on. So I will set lofty goals and be patient with myself if I don't hit them. I will celebrate the things I do create and understand that this is how my creativity works for me. How does your creativity work? I'm always interested to hear about other people's workflows.

As we will be in full swing of spring on the cusp of summer, I wanted a light, flowing show. Following along with my orange obsession, I decide to do a set of greeting cards with a fruit theme. Along that line, I will have to finish the two orange pieces I started in acrylics before Christmas.

I generally find my theme for events by just looking at what I keep coming back to in the studio. My artistic personality can be very stubborn at times. If I have something I keep coming back to, there is a defined route my brain likes to explore it.

First, identifying why I was drawn to it in the first place, then trying to capture that feeling I had with it, and then expressing what I want to share through those pieces. I have tried many times to just move on and start another project, but they will be pushed to the side until I come to the natural conclusion of whatever obsession I am chasing. I think I am finally starting to placate that side of myself and just let myself follow where my intuition leads me.

As I've done this event before, I know they have school-age children come on a field trip. As my price points were out of range for what the children had for money last year, I wanted to do a few smaller, low-cost items for them. I settled on stickers and decided to get my son to help me design them. I know my digital works resonate best with that age range, so we will design four digitally drawn stickers.

Watercolor Lemon

I figured I would film my studies and talk through them to see if that holds any value for people. So far, I have done a watercolor orange and a lemon. They are just simple starter types of paintings, but I figured if anyone can take anything from them, then it would be worth it. I know I enjoy watching how others create their work, so I hope it finds the right people who will enjoy them. I will link the orange video below.

The other thing I am debating is whether I'll order postcard-sized prints of some of the pieces.

I do have to order either new business cards or might end up going with a bookmark. I just feel that if people are anything like me, I tend to lose business cards the second they go into my pocket for some reason, but I have bookmarks that are older than my children. I never lose those.

That's all I am going to focus on right now. Anything needing to be printed needs to be sent off by next week at the very latest.

Till next week bye

Jackie ❤️