"Love-An-Inch"

"Don't cry because you think that your sketch 

is not as good as everyone else's - 

smile because you made a sketch"  

misquoting Dr. Seuss

This was suppose to be a bit of a landscape (or a "landscapeito" as John Muir Laws calls it). 

But I had pre-wet the paper and then used a waterbrush that was not very soft and the paper was piling terribly...

Frustration led to another John Muir Laws fix: if you don't like your painting, just draw and label and write on it. He sometimes puts a small landscape beside or behind a larger nature drawing for habitat reference. In this case I drew a large species reference over the landscape. 

Always remember these 

"Rules for Sketch Happiness"

1. ANY sketch done is far superior to any sketch not done.

2. Look for your favorite square inch in the sketch. Spend time admiring it and put into words what you love about it.

Here's my favorite inch:

I just love that I freely painted the negative spaces, sketched very loosely, and then left it alone. No fussing. It takes a very long time for a perfectionist to accomplish this!