A 365 day art project… one drawing a day
Playing around with my EEM watercolors, just seeing how they flow, how they mix, etc. I really like them a lot. I have two full pans (burnt sienna and mais), and two colors samples (tia and copper blue) so originally wasn’t sure I could do much, but you can really get quite a few mixes with these few colors. I hope to get more soon, but she sells out quickly!
My internet isn’t working correctly. I can’t get the rest of my photos to post, so the “featured image” is it today.
My neighbor has moved (sad!!) so I made this little sketch of her front door to give her. Now that I’m looking at it again, I wish I’d tried it several times and gotten a feel for it, then given her the best attempt. It’s too late, I’ve already given it. I think I could do better with practice, but I’m happy with it. Also, I’m working on not using pencil, and letting little mistakes be part of the art of it, so I need to just let it go.
Supplies:
EEM Handmade Watercolors (Burnt Sienna, Mais, Tia)
Daniel Smith’s Bloodstone Genuine, for the shadows
And a couple teensy touches of some Schmincke paints, only to adjust greens a bit (I only have the three colors by EEM)
Strathmore 140 lb Ready Cut 100% cotton cold press 5×7 paper, (linked here at Amazon, currently, for $6.38)
Uniball DELUXE black pen, .5mm
I made little planet sketches, planning to do a larger painting later… They all came out pretty cool, with the exception of poor Saturn’s rings. And I did hate not including Pluto. Nobody really likes the guy who figured that one out, hmm?
(“A WORK PAINTED USING GOUACHE”? Really? How can you define a word using the word itself as a key point in the definition?)
Gouache is weird. I wasn’t a fan a year ago, but I think I may like it now.
The month of June I hope to do 30 paintings in 30 days… even if most are teensy and in my journals. I’m following citizensketcher.com, and really I think the idea is plain air painting… but I have been so lazy lately I think any attempt with paint is going to work for me.
Schmincke watercolor in Stillman & Birns Beta Series pocket journal.
I watched a Youtube tutorial by Makoccino (seen below, and linked here)
I used EEM (Eventually, Everything Mixes) and QoR watercolor paints, and my tiny Stillman and Birn Beta Series pocket journal.
And then tried the ideas on my own yesterday. Here are my results:
This is a very small journal, and a kind of flattish masking fluid pen, AND the middle of the page tore beneath the fluid on the flower one.
This was a simple, quick, relaxing (except the tearing page) exercise. Thanks, Makoccino!
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