Hello Friends,

Here is the Stickleback fish below the waterfalls!  I had a lot of fun painting this.  I did it on Wednesday when my son took my daughter to school.  It is so great to get to stay home three days a week now.  This school year is not going to be quite as stressful for me with my son helping with the driving.  Although, now she is only going three days a week due to needing to drop a class which is fine.  So we get 4 day weekends now!  Yay!!

When I painted this I was using the book “Chinese Landscapes Made Easy” by Rebecca Yue.  My waterfall is similar to the one she shows in her example, but I did change it up some to make it mine.  I was working on using the dots and long dots strokes for the trees and the diagonal strokes for the rocks.  The fish is really too big proportionally as I said in my last post, but I don’t have the smallest size Chinese brushes yet, and I didn’t want to use my regular watercolor brushes.

I have ordered some other Chinese paint brushes that I hope to receive next week.  I should be getting this book today!  This is the book I mentioned in an earlier post that teaches how to do East Asian calligraphy, and I am very excited about it!  So hopefully in time you will see some of this, too, in future posts.

So you will see me again when I get Derrick’s Stickleback fish done, which I am planning on working on right now!  In tribute to him I will say I am enjoying my Southern iced tea with fresh mint leaves as I paint!

Have a wonderful day, and give someone you love a big hug!  🙂