This sketch is a bit of a mess since it started raining as I was throwing watercolor onto the sketch. If you don’t know, rain has a tendency to explode the colors that are already on the page. When the rain got really bad I took cover in the car port along with my students. Once the rain let up to a drizzle, I went back out and started adding paint again. That is why the sketch has so many smidges and smears.
Despite the struggles, I found out that I like how a colored pencil seems to melt when drawing over a wet page. I fin myself recreating this effect which was discovered by accident thanks to mother nature.
I am planning to return to this site with a student and looked to see if the Casa Feliz Home Museum (656 North Park Avenue, Winter Park Florida), was doing it’s Sunday parlor music series. I was pleased to see they are still holding off on the parlor series due to social distancing concerns. So many Americans have returned to an imagined pre-pandemic life style, but I remain cautious all my shots and boosters and have so far avoided a COVID infection. I continue to mask and social distance when out and about. That makes me a bit of a unicorn.