Painting with Watercolors

I recently started painting with watercolors again. It’s quite relaxing and I like it.

Since this is my blog I figured it would make sense to document my progress, and my thoughts on painting. Writing in your own corner of the internet is not quite like writing a diary, obviously, since everything is public. It’s more like writing in a cafe, where people might sneak a peak over your shoulder by chance. Also, robots occasionaly snatching the notebook out of your hand and scanning everything. But that’s part of life on the internet these days. And besides it’s not like I’m hosting this blog on my personal server. Dealing with scrapers is too much of a hassle. I’d rather let Microsoft handle that part through Github pages, they’re a part of the problem, too, so it’s only fair they deal with the consequences, and hosting bill. But if I were to host this on my own I would probably set up one of those tar bombs of infinite slop generators that scraper bots consume forever. In a perfect world everyone hosting public-facing content would set up such traps. No respect for scraper bots that don’t respect robots.txt.

Oh yeah, watercolors.

Very nice hobby.

If you pick good quality colors you can’t really go wrong. As long as you stick to a few base colors, and maybe a wild card, there will be some kind of harmony. And they will be vivid and brilliant.

My favorite subject as of writing this is abandoned buildings and scenes of nature reclaiming civilization. I’ve always liked post-apocalyptic art and litterature, both the kind that shows the stubornness and complexity of humans during crisis, as well as the kind that shows signs of nature healing, animals returning to the cities, peace. There’s a kind of bitter-sweet quality to it. You see things that were built for people to live in, play with, gather around. But not the people it was built for.