As this is my first contribution here comes the obligatory confession that I’ve been lurking the site for a month or so, enjoying everyone’s art. Now I got my first Moleskine and am ready to make my own humble additions. I mostly paint in oils but I’ve been too busy lately so I’ve turned to watercolor and sketching and am loving it. My goal is to draw/paint something every day this year, and so far I have. Here’s a little ink and watercolor to start with. The lettering is marker on eraser-stamps I carved myself 
plasma_girl 11:51 am on January 10, 2010 | #
A lovely composition! Thanks for sharing!
KirbysArt 5:50 pm on January 10, 2010 | #
Is that a jar, nice color effect, looks almost like copper. What brand of watercolors are you using?
Your going to love sketching in watercolor. Posting everyday is a challenge and this is certainly a great site for encouragement.
I just started oil painting a while back and yes it takes a little bit of prep unless its laid out ready to use.
~Kirby
Nuria 6:06 pm on January 10, 2010 | #
Welcome a Skineart!. I like your work!.
LeAviateur 9:33 am on January 11, 2010 | #
Your drawing is veery smart. It seems you’ve been in Argentina, just where I’m from. I gotta correct you in “YERBA MATE”, the word MATE is without the written accent. “MATÉ” would be “I killed” in english haha xD
Congrats for you starting skine and sorry ’bout the grammar lesson =P
Norty 5:51 pm on January 11, 2010 | #
Thanks for the correction! I actually speak spanish so I knew it meant that but I’ve just seen it spelled like that so figured it was right. But thanks because I don’t want to make that mistake again. I have a friend from Paraguay that got me into mate and I drink it almost every day now
KirbysArt as for the cup thing its actually a hollowed-out and dried gourd with a metal rim, used to drink a kind of herbal tea-ish drink from South America. It was black when I got it but now it has faded into all sorts of cool colors in the light.
Thanks for the comments everyone, I feel welcome already!
Joseph R Tomlinson 6:21 pm on January 11, 2010 | #
welcome Norty, like this watercolor a lot! glad i read all the comments, i would have spelled YERBA MATE wrong,
Leo 6:27 pm on January 11, 2010 | #
Welcome to the community, Norty.
You did “kill it” – in a sense that you’ve impressed a bunch of ‘skine.art regulars with your first submission. Keep posting!