I’m trying to make 100 tiny painting this year. Mine are 2×3 inches on watercolour paper. I’m using Staedtler watercolour pencils, and a fine tip sharpie pen. I tend to make art sporadically and can be a perfectionist, especially when it comes to drawing lines. Which is why I like making digital line art; I can zoom in and literally make sure each pixel is where I want it.

With these paintings, I’m trying to go with the flow and not get too stuck up on the drawing aspect (I’ve frequently ruined paper by drawing and erasing too much).

1. This first one below is a leaf from my Pteris cretica fern. The leaves are a little crispy from the low winter humidity. I drew a pencil outline, painted it, then inked the lines once dry.

2. A leaf from my rabbit’s foot fern.

3. Some leaves and flowers from a vine of my Tradescantia sanna plant.

4. Philodendron brasil plant.

5. A field of clover and alfalfa. This is the only one I didn’t draw in pencil first, I just started with the watercolour pencils then tried to define with the pen.

Number 1 is definitely my favorite. I think I should have worked more on the colours for number 4; the variegation on the leaves isn’t quite showing and I don’t like what I did the pen. Overall I think I need to put down a bit more of the pencils before wetting it.