Welcome

Welcome to my home for logging and blogging my new journey in watercolor painting.  My start in watercolor painting was about 3 months ago around my birthday and came as I wanted to find a way to color in some sketches I was doing.  I found some watercolor brush pens on Amazon, purchased those and therein began my journey.

I soon realized that I was enjoying the art and the challenge of watercolor, over my initial plan of just using the pens as markers.  I then went and purchased a set of tubes, then later a pan set.  I've now done close to 20-30 paintings on sizes from 9"x 12" down to bookmarks.

Over the course of this blog, I'll post some of the supplies I use, the things I've learned, and continue learning, as well as the paintings I've done.  Where applicable, I'll also post the inspiration for those paintings, so as to give credit to the original photograph or artist.  Much of my inspiration comes from things I see, pictures I take, or images others have taken.  I do plan on posting some affiliate content if relevant, merely to help replenish my supplies as I use them up.

I'm grateful for the positive words and support from friends and family, which encourages me to work on my skills.  My wife has gone so far as to buyout our local Meijer of all of their 9" x 12" frames so that she can frame some of my drawings and hang them around the house.

It's been a short, but fun journey thus far.  I've had many friends and family want to see some of the works I've done, and I thought this would be a way to help catalog those works as I go, and share them in case others would like to enjoy them as well.

The first step in any journey is to just take that first step.... well here it goes.

-- Rob