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Mystical garden - Watercolor with traces of Nightwish and a touch of a candle flame

A serious case of color cravings in time for trying out brand new, liquid watercolors gifted at Christmas. I sat down with the garden in my mind and stared at the blank sheet of paper in hesitation. Blank sheets can be quite frightening at first. Then you breathe out the anxiety, put the headphones on and hit play, think of the color, and add water to it. As the color-filled brush hits the paper, you promise yourself to take it slow since being impatient and rushing can often lead to failure.

What is the plan? It’s a water
color doodle. There is none, as the garden gently reveals itself in cloudlike softness and you are lost in realms of musical notes, joyfully dancing around in between, or twirling the golden locks in your fingers released from the bun only to make a new bun or a braid while waiting for the paper to dry and deciding where to strike next. To add to the creative madness you sometimes stand up on your chair and stare at it from a distance, then dive into it and hover only a few centimeters above. You spin it around too, to see it from every angle like a mad scientist.

After hours have passed you don’t even notice how tired you are or hungry, or that outside a new day is starting. Your table is covered with napkins, brushes, tools, color tubes, jars of water, all in perfect creative chaos around you. You giggle that the tornado has struck again. But then, you realize you have made a mistake. Somewhere along the lines, you have gotten the red paint on your sleeve and it has left a stain on the corner. It ruins it for you and there is no fixing it until you decide to burn it off! Burn all the edges off! Trial by fire, how fitting! Be gone the ugly, abomination of a corner from hell!


Finally, you decide you wish for more color and add tiny colorful specs all over the thing, and call it the day. Time to fix the damn sleeping schedule or never-ending struggle of a bat! Bwaaah! Sunlight! Too bright, get it off me!

Liquid watercolors by Royal Talens from the Netherlands - were blending really well and overall easy to work with


Dried color inspiration in the jar - herbal tea, collected from the meadows and my tiny garden. If only I could include the scent in the images!


A bit of a process, before the unfortunate corner struck




Strangely my creativity usually strikes at night. What about you?



Songs of the day:

Nightwish - Ghost Love Score - Remastered; Dua Lipa - Physical; Mazzy Star - Into Dust;

TK from Ling tosite sigure - Chou No Tobu Suisou; Donna Lewis - I Love You Always Forever, 

Simple Minds - Don’t You (Forget About Me); London Grammar - Hey Now - Tensnake Remix; 

Kyle Ekstrom, Mike Champa - Clearest Blue

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  • @lemony-cricket(63)· 2393d

    Emmmm! A painting!!! I love it! It's been so long... it is always one of my greatest joys to see that you have painted again. Such a beautiful garden, too!

    You know? I like the burning around the edges. It gives a dreamier feel to it; a bit like in a movie or comic when a character is dreaming and the edges are a bit hazy and unclear. That is what this feels like, looking at it... as if this garden is some kind of dream of the future.

    Painting seems so unforgiving; so permanent, in comparison to the ways I create. When I code, or when I write... mistakes like that corner are mostly inconsequential. Other than accidentally deleting data or losing hours of progress somehow, there is no real ability for an absent-minded misstep to ruin a project. Painting, or almost any art form using physical media, is so different in that regard. Hours and days of work can be scarred by one tiny mistake... and yet I see that mistakes can also create opportunities. It takes confidence and a special quality of brilliance to spot them and seize them; clearly, you have it.

    It's inspiring to read about the process, too, you know... the creative tornado, the standing on the chair, the musical immersion, the bat schedule and oh, it's morning? Well, those last bits sound familiar at least! xD It's so cool to imagine you in that creative world of your own where everything else around fades into the background. I wonder how it feels to be you, in that place.

    Amazing work. Really. The world gets a bit brighter every time you create 💛

  • @rubencress(75)· 2393d

    Looking great M!

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  • @pixel-anais(40)· 2396d

    It looks good, too beautiful, you have a voracious talent, keep it up and may your wits attack you every night of every day

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  • @doodle.danga(63)· 2396d

    This is beautiful! I was instantly reminded of coral when I saw the purple parts. I love the mellow color palette. The sprinkles also give the piece a magical feeling. Thank you for sharing.

    I would suggest turning up the brightness on the images up a bit because they look dark - but I know that's just more work, though.

    Keep the magic rolling! :)

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  • @lesmann(74)· 2396d

    Really Nice Work!!! The steps were also very interesting, Thanks For Posting! 👍🏼😁👍🏼

  • @warpedpoetic(70)· 2396d

    I love the burnt edges. That takes guts and balls. Writers edit, delete but you burn. Those burns will add character, a perception of you to the story within the paint

  • @angryman(69)· 2396d

    Burning the red paint off your sleeve, is quite a fashion statement :>) You might start a trend.

  • @kristves(64)· 2396d

    Really cute! I especially love the trees in the background, the sky and the rosy little bushes in the front. ^^

  • @whack.science(73)· 2396d

    Art at its finest. I really like this art style, looks amazing!!

  • @tarazkp(86)· 2396d

    The lavender looks great :) Did the paint ruin your top?

  • @kingtee-rex(44)· 2396d

    Wow this is some good stuff

  • @m31(74)· 2396d