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Painting Helps Me To Manage Daily Life With Schizophrenia, Here Are My 16 Dragons In Watercolor (16 Pics)

Painting Helps Me To Manage Daily Life With Schizophrenia, Here Are My 16 Dragons In Watercolor (16 Pics)

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I'm an artist who loves painting whimsical and fantastical things. I love making people smile. I have dabbled in every medium from oil paints to digital. I don't feel like one should be constrained by medium—I enjoy experimenting with all of them. I'll use whatever medium I feel best suits the project I am working on. Right now, it is dragons in watercolor. I chose watercolor because I wanted to capture the feeling of the old-fashioned scientific illustrations that I love. After I feel like I have made enough dragons, I plan on gathering the paintings into a book. 

#1 Wild Iris Dragon

Wild Iris Dragon
85points

Painting and drawing is something I have always done, but I never imagined that people would want to buy my art. My husband saw the potential for me to turn art into my job, and now he sells my artwork out of our little pop-up gallery. I have to admit, he had to drag me kicking and screaming into giving selling my art a chance, and I am glad he did. 

#2 Fairy Dragon

Fairy Dragon
69points

#3 Cherry Blossom Dragon

Cherry Blossom Dragon
62points

Being a freelance artist is the perfect job for me because I have a serious illness, schizophrenia, and I never know when I will be able to work. So, I just need to be my own boss. I'm not going to lie, being schizophrenic and just surviving what it does to you day after day is a full-time job. 

#4 Pearl Sided Forest Dragon

Pearl Sided Forest Dragon
60points

#5 Copper Scaled Dragon

Copper Scaled Dragon
59points

I am lucky enough to have a lovely art studio in my home and a great studio partner―a quaker parrot named Chibi. Chibi is always there to make sure my pencils and brushes are on the ground and that my papers have nibbles on their corners. His most important job is to put a smile on my face, and he does that well.

#6 Ruffled Forest Dragon

Ruffled Forest Dragon
58points

#7 Lesser Crested Dragon

Lesser Crested Dragon
55points

#8 Fallen Leaf Dragon

Fallen Leaf Dragon
52points

#9 Green Crested Dragon

Green Crested Dragon
47points

#10 Orange Winged Dragon

Orange Winged Dragon
46points

#11 Blue Maned Dragon

Blue Maned Dragon
44points

#12 Great Blue Water Dragon

Great Blue Water Dragon
43points

#13 Tufted Moss Dragon

Tufted Moss Dragon
43points

#14 Ruby Footed Dragon

Ruby Footed Dragon
41points

#15 Rose Winged Mountain Dragon

Rose Winged Mountain Dragon
41points

#16 Leaf Scaled Dragon

Leaf Scaled Dragon
35points
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