Art

Marcel asks a store worker where the gouache is, and the worker points to a display rack.

I bought a tube of white gouache to use for occasional highlights in my watercolor paintings and haven't touched it once since. Anyway! I'm very happy with this little hand gesture. It's dorky, funny, and reads well.

Marcel struggles to assemble a shelf by himself.

I built a shelf for my art supplies! I now have a whole new section in my office dedicated to storing my pens, pencils, paper, sketchbooks, brushes, and paints. I love it!

The Year of Art has been going on for more than six months now, and I don’t feel like I’ll be stopping anytime soon. This really has a chance of becoming a lifelong project, so it felt worth improving the logistics around it.

Marcel pretends he has not been drawing while painting a robin as a surprise gift for Anna.

I lied to Anna for her own good, because I’d prepared a little gift for her, and her investigative skills were dangerously close to ruining the surprise. Thankfully, I’m apparently a pathological liar, because she didn’t suspect a thing and was very happy to receive this little robin.

Marcel and Florian paint fish in a relaxed painting class.

We were the only ones in the class, and it was more of a “here are the materials, do what you want” kind of deal than anything else.