Tired of hearing the word quarantine? Yes, me too! So how about we shape up the sentence a little? Add a word or two to it to make it sound interesting. How about The Quarantine Canvas? Odd mix of words? Its alright, sit back and relax. After reading this, you will know exactly what I am talking about.
Now I am no expert in arts or painting (especially on a canvas, I am trying though), but hey, you must admit, the three terms sound cool together, especially because they change the perspective about this time of our lives. Okay, enough with the boring explanation of the title of this post, I will now proceed.
There is a reason why I named this post specifically including the word canvas in it and I am sure you must have guessed it by now too. Since everyone is stuck at home contemplating what to do with all the time in the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic (I do not like talking about it a lot so I will not go into the details), a number of people have been trying out new activities and discovering their skills and I decided to jump on the bandwagon too and finally settled on giving painting a try.
The only problem was that I did not have any art supplies at home because guess who hadn’t touched paints or a brush since grade eight in school? I discussed how I had been meaning to try painting during this free time and found out that my aunt whose family we live with, had a box of paints and two brushes upstairs in my cousin’s room. He got these for his art classes in grade four. I was obviously on cloud nine! Therefore, I wanted to start right away, and I did. We did not have thick watercolor papers or sketchbooks in the house as well, so I had to start my first project (I like calling it that because it gives the whole thing a fancy feel, you know) on an A4-sized printing paper. Now imagine, someone who hasn’t touched paints in ages trying to paint something, and that too with watercolors. I had no idea how much water or paint I was supposed to use and how watercolors are blended.