A lyrical history of girl and her botanical watercolors.

Ok, so I've mentioned a few times now that I do artsy stuff. Time to share some of my recent projects. How about my foray into watercolors in story form?


Once upon a time, there was a girl who decided to try her hand at watercolors after getting a few requests for some paintings out of no where. 

Her first request was an artichoke trio with comical bites out of it. Sure, why not:

Well, shit. That looks pretty good for my first watercolor...

From then on, she realized she really liked painting botany. Especially if it's funny. So she got another request.

Harry Potter themed botany in the form of Dirigible Plums:

Cute AND funny... for a very select number of people. 

And from there, she had an idea: Garlic! Who doesn't like garlic?!

Vampires. Va ha ha.

Well, non-vampire people thought that was pretty neat-o and suggested yet another painting for her to paint... Mirepoix? The hell is that?

This apparently.

And suddenly a bunch of her paintings sold. It seems people more than liked them; they actually wanted to stare at them every day. Forever! (Or at least until they redecorate).

"Hmm..." She thought. What else will people like? Flowers?! I effing LOVE flowers. 

And so she set out to paint a few of her favorites and offer them up to the world:

7 Flowers. Hell yes.

But contrary to her beliefs, people didn't really buy them as much as she had hoped. She made some prints to make them less expensive, but they weren't a huge success.

"Well, shit." She thought. And did some other stuff for awhile that she'll talk about in another post at a later time... but eventually she came back and realized that botany is what she likes to paint. So she painted something else... something funny again. Something she thought was funny and wouldn't care if they didn't sell.

Super Mario Brothers Piranha Plant and Fire Flowers.

 Do you know how hard it is to spell PIRANHA?

And suddenly people were interested again. And they made some more requests based on video games.

Nirnroot from Skyrim and Hawk Grass and Horse Grass from Zelda Twilight Princess:

Crimson version... it's still a work in progress.

She realized she had a new direction and while she'd still be putting things up for sale on her store, she knew that if they didn't sell, she'd have a house full of things she painted with love. Not bad.


And with promises of art shows she had already booked and a possible opportunity to showcase at Comic-Con in 2014, she went on painting happily (ever after for now?).

THE END



So that's my story of watercolors I like to paint! I'll post a story of why I do what I do for a few of my favorite artistic endeavors. Hope you liked it!


Tomorrow I have an art show (and by tomorrow, I mean I have to be awake in 7 HOURS to get there. SHIT) so I'm off to bed.


Goodnight internet!