#30x30DirectWatercolor2018 Caerphilly Castle

Yes, sorry, I know that I've already posted today. But I can't help it - I feel so useless at watercolor that I just couldn't help posting having produced a direct watercolor that I think isn't actually at all bad. I went to Caerphilly today to paint the largest castle in Wales. This is what I came up with:-

Considering that the only thing I used to draw lines was the paintbrush itself I'm really quite pleased with this.

One Sketch #69) #30x30watercolordirect2018 Margam Park Stag

I stand before you,
When all is done and said
Defiant, proud and tall
Don't you think my head
Looks far, far better
On me, than on a wall?

Yes, I'm afraid that I see myself using my watercolor direct sketches as my daily sketches for the time being. Let's look on the bright side, though. This specific challenge ends at the end of this month, and at the rate I'm going, there are going to be days when I'll make more than one watercolour - yesterday for example - and days when I won't make any, so there will be some ink sketches coming this month, I'm sure.

As for this choice, well, while I was in Kaunas in April I visited the Zoological Museum - where I sketched a coelacanth - and one thing I didn't like about it was a room literally full of mounted deer heads and antlers. As the verse says - I think they look far better still attached to the living animal.