![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmNwbRSBWGiMMMtVAscoGd8vvab4uSvSdhs2yqpMFaVtk3/1735133948550.png) **Hello and Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates!** I want to share the creation process of a watercolor painting I finished the other day. I love it! I'm very happy it exists now :) I wrote about my first [watercolor explorations](https://ecency.com/hive-174301/@anafae/cheap-paper-and-freedom-or-watercolor-explorations) a while back when I was visiting my hometown in Germany, and we continue the series! ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmWg3PTwTNQbgK8htnXpiEj6g7pUNf5vyBFefW1suXbuQP/1735133949042.jpg) Since we've closed our [acorn laboratory](https://ecency.com/hive-150329/@paradigmprospect/how-to-make-acorns-edible-a-step-by-step-of-the-hot-leaching-process) I'm able to use that half of the dinner table as my little painting space. ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmTRiJDBS6uw1B1N9ujZJNHQAF3zEjbrTtz1x83PKASR5Y/1735133948982.jpg) The raw pencil sketch was there in my sketchbook for a while before I started painting. Like all my drawings it came about completely intuitively. I don't know the situation anymore, but my body remembers the feeling. Hard to explain ^^ but it's there in the art. I had to draw something *right now*, that happens from time to time. I just didn't have my pencil case in the house yet, so I used a big rough carpenter pencil that I found in the house. ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmaG1QPaDyHK19MtUgtW3Hx8UFPEyrwJmUg6N843LSF4Bx/1735133948921.jpg) It was really fun to draw with it and I kept using it for other drawings. It really makes a difference in how I draw and my mindset when I use different tools. This one somehow gave me a lot of freedom, probably because it reminded me of my first pencils that I used as a child :) when my hands were so small in comparison to the tool. ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmbAdiqw62fSM4TBeD6B86QuZNgL42NGtpbsiP5aXLKLGV/1735133948861.jpg)_{this guy accidentally got a little beard ^^} I love the intuitive process of filling out the blank spaces with color. It's like "color by numbers" without the numbers! I just feel what's the right color for a particular space, or I mix a color that I like and feel where the right place is for it. ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmVfoRLf4LxxFdUF9jfZBiKCaqkdCqb6XwRLSqdfPFts32/1735133948810.jpg) I also love when the painting I'm working on is always visible for me. The dinner table sits in the middle of the room so I walk by it all the time and can just stop and put some paint when inspiration hits me :) ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmZmNjhMYLniNtGFeJ6YgM1CDjb9jc1RDaRhwxXDrRpgyX/1735133948754.jpg)_{me drawing outlines after a shower} I thought about drawing the outlines with a felt pen at first, but then I decided to paint them with watercolor and a tiny brush. I love the organic and natural look it gets this way. Also it's just more fun and I get to spend even more time with the painting :) ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmSWEEVnkE3efQNTMGh1dkrjevLv19kWAw4MRHAwAZ1owq/1735133948685.jpg) I did think about making a frame out of cardboard and putting it up on a wall here in the house, but I'm not sure yet. It's just a temporary home for us and not ours and I just don't know yet if I'm willing to leave it here. Although I love walking by my paintings all day, they bring me so much joy :) We'll see. ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmPXXUAsuT5K2i2C7TUCu7ECY3bbaqK4yvwrjTm8kMZRQW/1735133948625.jpg) Thanks for stopping by <3 ___ *all images are mine* ![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmbouHSWrHurFsRJP4aTPoUbE2nCf2s3JiuiojFqDigSQo/1729964160574.jpg)www.anafae.art

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