Hiya. Have I made it clear in the past how much I love color?? I really, really, REALLY do. Just seeing all the colors on these Daniel Smith Watercolor Dot sheets made me giddy. Even better, they were almost half price at Wet Paint the other day so I totally jumped on the opportunity to…
Archives for August 2014
The Tools Of The Trade
I’m having a whole lot of fun drawing up all my pens and paint supplies. I got the idea to draw all my new pens from Tommy Kane and Jane Blundell. In fact, I’ll probably repeat this process and do something a little more like Tommy’s “Weapons of Choice” drawings. I love that he wrote…
Since I’m In The Kitchen…
Since I’m in the kitchen, did anyone want anything? LOL. This is my final homework for SBS (Sketchbook Skool). Tommy Kane taught the last week and he’s all about the detail. I’m into that. I loved the assignment, go draw your kitchen, in all it’s glory. My kitchen isn’t glorious in any stretch of the…
It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane…. Nope, It’s a Bird!
This is my final homework for Roz’s class on how to draw and paint animals. It’s amazing the amount of information that woman can impart in one short class. So well worth the price to do SketchBook Skool. I never thought I could draw animals accurately. I’ve had artist friends who paint animals and I…
Color Play
I started learning about the colors in my palette a couple of days ago by mixing a bunch of greens, here’s the post. When I finished Roz Stendahl’s class I realized as I perused her blog, reading all about color theory, brush pens etc., that in fact, I really should change out my student watercolors…
It Isn’t Easy Being Green
I’m starting to learn about the watercolor pigments in my Winsor & Newton travel palette. I’m mainly just using up the Cotman student colors that came in it because I’m really trying to learn about how the colors mix together and am not making precious pieces of art. Right now, all my art is contained in…
All Gooses All The Time!
Ok, so this week’s teacher at SBS is Roz Stendahl and she’s an expert at drawing animals. You should have seen her live model demonstration video. She went to the home of a parrot owner (I think the parrot was a sun conure) and showed us how she goes about capturing the essence of the…
Coffee Anyone?
I have a new mug. I know this doesn’t sound unusual for most of you. But in our house it’s unusual to get “special” cups. I cherish all the unique or unusual mugs we have, the very few we have, lol. Mostly, I’ve been raised in a house where things match. Usually I’m ok with…