World Watercolor Month
31 Days of Painting with Watercolor
A Charitable Event to Support Arts Education
Charlie O’Shields started to capture little bits of the world in ink and watercolor in July 2015. Even though he hadn’t picked up a pen to sketch in over 20 years and he’d only just used watercolor for the first time that day, he got excited about it and Doodlewash was born.
Vocabulary - Inspiration and Afflatus
Inspiration might be described as a breath of fresh air, and so it is appropriate that inspire derives in part from a word meaning "to breathe"—Latin spirare. Afflatus is a lesser-known word for inspirationthat followed a parallel route.
Afflatus, which in Latin means "the act of blowing or breathing on," was formed from the prefix ad- ("to, toward") and the Latin verb flare ("to blow"). That Latin verb gave us such words as inflate and (via French) soufflé. The Roman orator Cicero used afflatus in his writings to compare the appearance of a new idea to a breath of fresh air. Nowadays, one often finds the word preceded by the adjective divine, but poets and artists can find afflatus in the material world as well
Instagram Account
For All You Tech Savvy & Happy To Be So Peeps
Our watercolor community now has an Instagram account: @watercolorcommunitysf.
If you have any digital pictures or your paintings, please send them to: watercolor.sf@gmail.com. It is a great way to share our work with each other and expand our audience for our shows.
- This forum is kind and generous, not mean and nasty like some others.
- It is a visually strong forum, but a few words attached to each picture gives the image some support.
- Your name does not need to be attached to the picture if you don't want it there. Totally up to you, just let me know. If you have your own account, and want to be tagged, I can do that, too.
This image is an example of a post, from David Hockney's account.