A week after my rash promise to myself to create a painting each week, and following quite a bit of procrastinating, I sat down with a pencil drawing from a couple of weeks ago of some liles in a vase.  Not my favourite flower but I liked the positive and negative shapes all the leaves made.

I had just a few simple aims: to finish the painting, to keep the transparency of the watercolours and not to slavishly follow the lines of the drawing with paint.

I didn’t paint for long – maybe an hour and a half – but I was absorbed by the process.

It got slightly muddy, but for week 1, after a long break, I’m pleased.  It felt good to be painting again.