Stephanie is Worried About my Watercolor Cartoons
[dc]S[/dc]ince I decided to play around with watercolor paint, I’m practicing when I can. This means a lot of practice paintings where I don’t care what the product looks like. I experiment with my cheapo watercolor paint kit. I do. I learn.
What I learned last week was, I need to keep these experimental cartoons out of sight. Or at least out of Stephanie’s sight. Some of my watercolor cartoons have her a bit, let’s say, concerned.
Especially this ‘self-portrait.’
Stephanie is worried about me.
Stephanie: “What the hell is this?”
Me: “Me.”
Stephanie: “Why are you frowning?”
Me: ::SHRUG::
Stephanie: “Can’t you draw yourself smiling or being happy? Or at least use color?”
Me: ::SHRUG::
Stephanie: “This is the kind of thing parents talk to a therapist about.”
Me: “That actually happened.”
Stephanie: “…What?”
This No Filter Fox painting didn’t help either.
Me: “I was really young, but, apparently my drawings at home and school were freaking out my parents and teachers. I spent time with the school child shrink”
Stephanie: “Uh…drawings of what?”
Me: “I don’t really remember, Mom and Dad could tell you, but it was stuff like cracked skulls, bleeding heads, monsters, weird things, and–”
Stephanie (twisting her wedding band): “This explains SO much.”
And so on. Really, if you want an Exhibit A, all you need to do is look at one of my college animation projects, Lunch Date.
(video link / more of my animation)
I made peace with the fact I’m not destined to paint glowing cabins by a river a long time ago.
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