Painter's block

Sometimes I just get painter's block. The blank canvas stalls me. I have decided recently to tackle a very difficult subject. It's a wintery scene I took a few years ago. It will take a good deal of planning. It looks on the surface to need a great deal of frisket, but there may be another way.

One thing about watercolour wash is that you really have to get it right the first time or you have to do it over. This is exactly what I enjoy about the media is the discipline. It must be planned out before I put brush to paper. If I get the order wrong I can't simply do a paint over like what is possible in opaque media.

All of January, I've been busy in my business (branding and graphic design) and so time to paint fell short. But this picture has been in the back of my head for the last few months. It's difficulty kept me from just jumping in.

February will see me taking a crack at it though.