On the left is a tree I made after five hours of watercolor practice and on the right is one I made after 25 hours of practice. Both done on postcard size paper. I found the Oliver tree tutorial before the first image but it took a while of practicing with it to get better. I’m still in my first year of watercolor but I can imagine that it’s something I‘ll stay with for decades. Maybe after a few decades I’ll be really quite skillful. I hope to keep a record of some of the early images to inspire others to get through some of the first 100 hour frustrations.

i once saw a Van Gogh sketch of a carpenter with a saw when he first took up drawing in his twenties. It was pretty stiff and it’s amazing to realize that he started as clunky as many of us beginners.

http://www.tccart.com/Drawing_VanGogh.html

I’m enjoying everyone’s posts and feel grateful to have found this forum :)

Will