Daniel Smith is having a big sale—30% OFF your order, including sale items and outlet items! Good until midnight, September 6th! Please click the logo in the right column and use code WBTHSEPT. Thanks!! Now, where's my list..... ...
Look what I've found!! An unfinished painting! Oh, be still my heart!! Mr. Snowman I've been starving for something to paint that wasn't sketch related, but loathed stopping and taking the time to plan out a painting! So you can imagine my surprise, when on a hunt for hot press paper, I flipped the cover back on this block of paper and there...
Another month! And another class! Dandelion Snow Artful Journaling: Explorations just finished up and the image above is from our last assignment! It's salt and sand! This class was so much fun and it was made so by the fabulous students in the class—so much creativity and talent! Totally fun! The cool thing about these classes (IMO) is that we learn as much...
Detail of Texture from Autumn Tree, Watercolor Painting The kids go back to school in our county today. The football season has begun and the voter booths are open today, and even though it doesn't feel like it.....it's gotta be Fall! And it's shaping up to be a busy Autumn with lots of new classes on the schedule! Please visit September's i•Trav•e•logue for...
Below is an image of my studio as it looked back in January, all clean and tidy after the big remodel.... ....and it was working fine. Well, kinda. Ummm, well, no, actually it wasn't. Not if I wanted to work on more than one project at the time. Because I only had one work surface. That meant I had to move the current...
Summer is just flying by. Ridiculously so. What is the hurry, I keep wondering. Well, since I can't do anything to slow it down, I might as well scribble in my journal a little bit faster! Rollerball Gel Ink Pen and Watercolor5" x 5" on Watercolor Paper I will never forget the summer we went on vacation with two of my aunts and...
And no one could be more surprised to see that statement on my blog let alone in my head! However, there comes a point in time where enough is enough and I'm past that point! I crave organization and systems and a place for every blessed thing in my house (life) and every last one of those things in their places!! Arrrgh! In...
"Poppy"
5" x 7"
Watercolor and Gouache
WN 140 lb. CP paper
Meet Poppy! Isn't she just a doll?! She lives with Laura over in the UK. Poppy is a Yorkie and Laura was kind enough to let me paint her lovely face! (If you click on Laura's name, it will take you to Laura's Flickr Photostream where the image I used to paint Poppy lives.) I have had the best time with this! My muse was so excited she was doing little pirouettes all around the studio.
This was painted entirely with a waterbrush. You can see the gouache most clearly at the top of her head in her white "bangs," however there are actually touches of gouache throughout the image. There are also touches of turquoise, purple, red, orange, blue and green.
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The image above was painted in the morning. I kept thinking about it most of the day and finally decided to have another go.....
"Poppy, Fast and Loose"
5" x 7"
Watercolor and white ink
WN 140 lb. CP paper
This painting of Poppy was done in 45 minutes—top to bottom. I couldn't have done it that quickly without having created the first painting. This looks a bit more watercolor-y to me. Not as many color variations as the first portrait. There are touches of turquoise, purple and blue.
Not sure what to think about the white ink.....
Hmmmm, now I gotta go find something else to paint.....this was fun!!!!!!!!