“The Graphic Vegetable” by Michael B. Emery & Irwin Richman publishes today, November 28, 2016 and is available to purchase. This is a beautiful and visually stunning book. I contacted the publisher so I could have a hard copy to review as I didn’t think my Kindle would do it justice. I’m so glad I did. As an…
Archives for 2016
MacKenzie-Childs Love (#WorldWatercolorMonth)
I’m in love. Nope, not with a person, with a brand. I’ve been jonesing for anything MacKenzie-Childs lately. I especially love their Courtly Check pattern. Who doesn’t love black and white together? Then they add bits and hints of turquoise, teal and a lovely bright green and quin gold to pump up the volume. Their enameled…
Feathering My Nest (#WorldWatercolorMonth)
I haven’t posted for a few days and I’ve filled my time painting feathers. Maybe tomorrow I’ll do a whole bird. ;o) First I thought I’d try some peacock feathers. Although the drawing gave me great hope for the success of this painting, I don’t really think it turned out much like I wanted it…
Finished: Spoon & Tomato (#WorldWatercolorMonth)
This was a really fun one to challenge myself with. I love the mix of the monochromatic spoon and the colorful baby tomato. I have a love of painting fruits and veggies and I also love figuring out the shadows in a black and white photo so this was a fantastic mix for me. I…
Spoon & Tomato Sans Tomato… (#WorldWatercolorMonth)
Just a quick post showing today’s progress for #WorldWatercolorMonth. Thought I’d do a complicated drawing/painting this time. Tomorrow I’ll paint in the tomato. I love doing value drawings and I think this will be so unique with the painted tomato on the spoon. Now all I have to do is wait until tomorrow morning to…
Fly Me To The Moon… (#WorldWatercolorMonth)
It’s #WorldWatercolorMonth (click on the logo to go to the Facebook page) this month and I’m participating everyday celebrating watercolors by painting with them. Today, the lowly fly. He’s kinda colorful and I love the blue-green interaction on his shell. I could however have less hairy legs. He needs a razor, he needs to be…
A Butterfly Flutters By
#WorldWatercolorMonth is all of July. I’m joint in and doing one watercolor painting a day for 31 days. This is day three. I’m keeping up the bug theme for now, I thought I’d try a butterfly but I don’t love how this turned out, it has no “pop”. I’m thinking that’s because there’s no shadow…
Oh To Be A Colorful Beetle (#WorldWatercolorMonth)
I love beetles, but usually not the ones with legs. I covet the ones with tires. I’ve loved the VW Beetle convertible for ever, it’s on my wish list/bucket list. But recently I have seen the light when it comes to some bugs, the ones with legs, I mean. Usually I really, really hate bugs….
Ladybug, Ladybug Fly Away Home…
Keeping up the theme of bugs or things that fly (I intend to do butterflies and maybe even hummingbirds), I present a ladybug. I’ve always thought they were such happy little bugs, not scary at all and many people think they bring luck. If you’d like to join in with watercolor artists around the…
Cows and Bumble Bees (#WorldWatercolor Month)
My Moo cards arrived today!! I can’t believe how terrifically they turned out. I’m doing a little dance and probably scaring the neighbors. Here’s the back of the cards… …and here’s most of the fronts, I did 25 original pieces of art so I got two of each. (Moo Business Cards) (Click To…