One Foot After the Other

Wrapped the sketchpad today! I have to clean my place so I'll wait till everything's sorted out before cracking a new one. Truly enjoyed the paper, although in several pages things felt weird. I'm not advanced enough to triage whether it was a paper problem, sizing problem, or technique problem. I think this is the first sketchbook I'd ever had where I could honestly say I like every sheet (or at least they turned out halfway decent), so pretty pleased about that. I think I'd gotten better at recognizing where I could go looser and how to approximate the colors, which in turn lessen my anxiety. Given that I'm still ranting about fear of wet media as late as the beginning of April, it is a surprise to myself that this sketchpad ends up being 80% watercolor and 20% water-soluble media. As I grew more confident, I made less "mistakes". When I did, I figured out how to fix, cover, or accept it. In turn, I grew even bolder. If only we step into such virtuous cycle as easily as we are into…