I have an artist friend who says of the mid-summer greenery, "It's all the same green."
That's not our situation now, with spring dawning, and the tree canopy changing daily!
I've been trying to capture this process in my nature journal with watercolor sketches. After the winter, it's endlessly fascinating to me to sketch spring progressing in the natural world.
What's developing in your world right now? Can you track its progress in your nature journal with a sketch every day or two? A progressive study of something you're fascinated with builds your sketching skills and helps to establish a flow in your creative life.
Do you ever feel like creating but lack a direction? Finding some natural process -- seasons changing, seedlings growing, flowers blooming, birds raising their young, tadpoles developing -- can help set a creative course for you to relax into. You learn more about what interests you, and generate more ideas about what to focus on with your artwork.
In sunlight, you can see the texture in the Canson XL 140# watercolor paper. Because the paper in my nature journal is made for dry media only, I cut watercolor paper to fit my nature journal and tuck a small stack in my book. I can clip a piece of paper on the front of my journal and paint, then tape it into the journal with masking tape.
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