{"id":10474,"date":"2006-05-28T08:11:20","date_gmt":"2006-05-28T13:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/28\/10-reasons-to-learn-watercolor\/"},"modified":"2006-05-28T08:11:20","modified_gmt":"2006-05-28T13:11:20","slug":"10-reasons-to-learn-watercolor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/10-reasons-to-learn-watercolor\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Reasons to Learn Watercolor"},"content":{"rendered":"

For several months, I’ve been toying with the idea of learning some form of artistic expression. At very odd intervals, I’ll doodle something that really strikes a chord with me, but I don’t have a lot of confidence that I have much artistic talent, yet there’s a family heritage of creativity I’ve felt left out of except, possibly, for writing. So here’s ten reasons I’ve decided watercolors are the way to go:<\/p>\n

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  1. My maternal grandmother does beautiful watercolors (I have three originals and several copies)<\/li>\n
  2. My mother has taken up the art and, though she hasn’t had much time to partake of it, she shows promise<\/li>\n
  3. If I take it up, that’s a third generation<\/li>\n
  4. It’s an area I haven’t explored since junior high or before, so it should tap into areas of my brain long neglected<\/li>\n
  5. I can do it with or without knees<\/li>\n
  6. If my hands or wrists become too crippled, I can lean to hold the brushes in my mouth<\/li>\n
  7. By holding brushes in my mouth, I can’t eat, so I could use it as a weight loss tool<\/li>\n
  8. I suspect it’s a hobby that can be engaged in with a variable monetary investment<\/li>\n
  9. It can be done alone or in a group;classes should be easy to find (although, I haven’t looked yet)<\/li>\n
  10. It might help bring out new approaches to my writing, thus improving it<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I was in Hobby Lobby yesterday to arrange to have this year’s Gathering of Eagles lithograph (this year’s list of Eagles and the lithograph aren’t posted yet) framed. While I was there, I wandered around and thought about picking up some supplies. I quickly realized I didn’t know where to start. I decided to do some research first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    For several months, I’ve been toying with the idea of learning some form of artistic expression. At very odd intervals, I’ll doodle something that really strikes a chord with me, but I don’t have a lot of confidence that I have much artistic talent, yet there’s a family heritage of …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}