I never used watercolor before. I use oil pastel, markers, or just a pencil. Since ages, I really really want to paint with watercolor or at least try it once, but I never start 🙁

So last week, I decided to learn. I browsed the web and check all the tutorial books. It’s not that easy to find one, at least the one that fits me 🙄 But I found an interesting quote from this nice web page (which has very good articles and tutorials about watercolor)

Painting is easy for those that do not know how, but very difficult for those that do!

– Edgar Degas-

My wife is also told the same thing: just start painting. Forget about the rules, tutorials. Just do it! I think she’s right. I am not going to make a masterpiece anyway. I just want to paint for fun :-p

I started with playing with some colors, trying to mix them, and making several washes on the paper.It’s really fun 🙂

After an hour, I tried to paint a real object, starting with my big orange mug.

Well, not bad for a starter 🙂