Another day of painting.

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It was another day of painting today. I've started another 5 paintings but none of them are finished yet! I'm going to try and finish them tomorrow. The first one is one of a ladybird hanging from a twig. I made a mess of the first attempt so I got another sheet of watercolour paper and started over again from scratch! The reason it went wrong was that first I had to wet the wings of the drawing of the ladybird, then add an orangy colour, then a light redish colour, and then on top of that a darker redish colour. I then let that dry. When that was dry I was told to rewet the area and then add a mixture of alzirin crimson and lamp black, which makes a really deep red, to the edges to make a kind of shadow. But I think I overdid it and it ran out of the edge of the picture which I then tried to stop with kitchen towel and then cotton bud balls but only smudged it and made it worse! I may try to salvage ladybird attempt No.1 by trying to hide the bleed with a background colour, but I don't know if it will work! I then did a second attempt but the drawing was too small and didn't cover enough of the paper, and I thought I'd drawn too much for it all to be rubbed out so I started a third one. Eventually I managed to do the third attempt ladybird, and paint his wings and head without it bleeding and smudging so that's good. I have still to do his legs and the twig itself. The other 4 paintings were of, if I can remember:- 1) A large tree. 2) A scene of a telephone box by a wall and the side of a house, and foliage or a tree. 3) A landscape with two small trees to one side. 4) A landscape with a stream, and trees, and foliage, and a gate and a few carrots (people). All of them have been started but none finished. I think a couple are near completion, but they still need some things doing to them, like a grassy foreground, and the red telephone box needs painting. So, I hope to finish them tomorrow. Have a good night, everyone.