A 365 day art project… one drawing a day
Trying some new styles out. Still youtube tutorials. These two are Painting With David. Well, I know the tree is. And I think the landscape is.
Strathmore 400 watercolor journal 5.5×8″. M Graham watercolors. Ultramarine, Sepia, hanse yellow, terra rosa, quinacridone rose. Daniel Smith Sepia. Testing out some sample Craftamo brushes.
Two more Sheeler tutorials. Testing craftamo brushes.
Strathmore 400 5.5×8 watercolor journal, M Graham paints ultramarine, hansa yellow, Daniel Smith Sepia.
I like them both. But…I love this one….
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“Jelly Bean Row” in Newfoundland. From one of Peter Sheeler’s tutorials, but this time I didn’t even watch his tutorial, just used his reference photo.
Strathmore 400 5.5 x8 watercolor journal. M Graham watercolor paints ultramarine, hansa, quinacridone rose, scarlet pyrrole, Daniel Smith sepia. Testing Craftamo brushes.
So the past few days I have been a painting monster, really! I have so many things. I haven’t decided how to post them yet. I’ll keep working every day, but some of my posts may include things from this past week as well. I’m going to start with two tutorials from Peter Sheeler. Laundry. Mundane, right? But so sweet.
Another of Peter Sheeler’s sketches. Too often I overwork parts. I like these studies with only two or three colors. I’m hoping to fill my sketchbook quickly because I’ve already found the next book I want to try! Art is all about shopping for me, apparently.
I couldn’t get my pen to load with ink, which doesn’t explain my sad letter spacing, but kind of explains the distraction I exhibit. Celebrate (or don’t) however you love today, with those whom you love most! And don’t forget to wear your green!
I’m using Angela Fehr’s tutorials and ideas. Actually, I just copied her picture. THEN saw she had a tutorial on this which would have made it better. But I still like it. She has a very loose style that is difficult for me, but I’m hoping to master it. Most of her things are very wet and free form. She offers an online class in it for $39, I just haven’t decided yet about paying for it.
A quick sketch copied from R A Hayes. Very cute. My flowers are too short and squatty. Wimpy really. Petals too small, too spaced, etc. But I like the idea. And i like the way of doing the jar.
I wanted a tiny convenient paint set for taking with me anywhere. I keep seeing them on youtube and in artist’s blogs and they are so cool. I don’t need this, for two reasons. I have small travel palettes already. And I don’t take paints anywhere and paint. I do WANT to, though, and I wanted a really small one (for no reason that makes any sense. Just to see how small a set I could get, I think), so I made myself one last night.
I used a round little tin (about 3″ across) I found while cleaning out my studio. I was thinking I’d used 3 or 4 colors in a travel set, but I fit 8 windsor & newton cotman 1/2 pans in there. I cut down two of my cheapest paint brushes, a round and a flat, to 2 3/4 inches, and sanded the end I cut, (and plan to dip that cut end in acrylic paint or clear nail polish or something to keep it safe from water) You may notice the round brush is actually cut to a slanted end, the tip of which I think I can use for lines in the paintings. I also cut down a pencil, and included a tiny eraser from my electric eraser set. I’m not worried about using these very short tools if ever I’m out, and I also have a pencil extender in my watercolor pencil set, which will make them even easier to use, I think. Also, we are workshop challenged in our family (sad because dad was a workshop genius) and have no tools. So I used a safety jack o lantern cutter for the brushes and pencil (making me wonder, are they really that safe?), and a nail file to sand them dow. Perfect. I feel so self reliant.
(All that work… and there’s a little collapsible Da Vinci brush I’m DYING to buy. Several, actually.)
I added magnets to the backs of each 1/2 pan and they fit perfectly around the edge of the tin. I added magnets to three little metal pans from my new Artbin palette, placed one in the center of the paints, and two in the lid of the tin. These will be for mixing colors, which I can also do in the lid of the tin. OR i can use the tin lid or tin itself to hold water!
I put the brushes, pencil, eraser, and one folded up paper towel inside the tin, put the lid on, and added a tiny laminated swatch I’d made of the paints, which will help me remember what’s in there if I never use it.
(those brushes were white once)
I have a tiny bag that a friend on Swap-bot made for me a while back, which will hold my palette, pen, a tiny collapsible metal cup for water, a couple 2×3″ pieces of watercolor paper… to test paint colors… and my pencil extender. I know, I know… If I’m taking a little bag anyway, do I need such a small palette? Wouldn’t my slightly larger professional palettes work as well or better? uh… yeah, probably.
But, this will be fun. I think I will add another large flat magnet on the bottom of the tin, so I can attach the tin to my sketch book if I need to, and a clip to keep pages from blowing if I am outside.
And I’ll have no excuse not to go sit at Starbucks and paint. Sipping my chocolate frappuccino, nibbling on madeleines. Nice. Pocket sized painting fun, created with things I already had here and wasn’t using. And I get madeleines.
Well, I didn’t follow his tutorial at all, but used his photo to try something on my own. This is a corner in Covent Garden in London, where I have actually been!! I tried it in Peter Sheeler’s style. It doesn’t look like Sheeler’s stuff, and the colors are all muddy, so I’m not terribly happy with most of it, but I think the perspective is much better than my first attempt on Sunday’s submission. I may try to follow Tim Ailment’s painting directions, his style is loose and pretty without the pen and ink. But also scary, and I don’t have the colors he has. (and without ink it IS all about the color) I used a new travel paint set I put together, which I’ll create a separate post to describe.
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