Inktober day 16: Wild
From the movie poster for “Wild” … Not a fabulous representation of Reese Witherspoon, I know. But when I think back to where I was a year ago, I’m happy with my progress. 🙂
Inktober 2019 Day 16: Wild
Tag: art
Inktober 2019 Day 15: Legend
Inktober day 15: Legend (I went with “John Legend”)
Inktober 2019 Day 13: Ash
inktober day 13: Ash
Inktober 2019 Day 11: Snow
Inktober day 11: Snow
Inktober 2019 Day 10: Pattern
Inktober day 10: Pattern
Then I added tomboy marker but wished I hadn’t:
-but either way, Day 10 is finished 🙂
ARTING again!! Finally. :) And making tiny watercolor palettes, too!
I apologize for my lack of posts… Where have I been??!! At home, just staying busy with work, and everything EXCEPT art. But finally, my dry spell has ended! (I hope) Thanks to a friend kindly inviting me to her painting party Thursday, where we all painted the same thing,
and the Hampton Roads Urban Sketchers September outing in Hampton this morning… thanks for the push, friends!
Everybody’s art from today:
Yeah, it’s a boat.
This is the little sketch someone else did… great, huh?? She hasn’t drawn in forever and is still so good!
A dog joined us for a few minutes while we sketched. He was cuter than his sketch. The weather was perfect. I’m surprised more people weren’t out!
A sketch of some sketchers, before lunch, discussing some sketching moments. I hope they aren’t offended by the sketch… they look better in real life, too. 🙂
(This is actually from last month, finding Clara and a toad sitting side by side on the back steps. I just used the rest of the page today at the outing.) There’s not much to this one… I just wanted to remember the moment.
We went to Baked Cafe for lunch. Got my lunch in the sketchbook, too. Sort of. 🙂
I couldn’t find my little travel paints. Well, I found LOTS of my travel paint sets but not The One I wanted. So I made this one from a business card holder. I hope to list some of these in my Etsy store soon, maybe before Christmas? What do you get the urban sketcher who has everything?? A personalized mini paint palette, maybe?
I thought I had every color I needed, and some extras, Â but at lunch I did miss quinacridone gold. I think I might remove schmincke’s helio turquoise to add daniel smith’s quin gold. I love love these teensy slim lightweight sets!!
This spring I purchased a stack of mats at a great price… I thought… but I finally used some and now I see why they were such a deal… they are not 5×7, but 6×8! A hard size to purchase ready made frames for. I found a set of inexpensive frames and got it, but they aren’t very pretty, and the cost of the pieces will be so much higher for the buyer with the added shipping cost! I don’t want to sell an unusual size without a frame, I also would rather not ship frames… I dunno… we’ll see. Kinda bummed about the little setback. Maybe I will just go purchase new mats.
So… what have you been doing??
Thirty Days of Everyday Life, Day 15: watercolor doodling practice with CreationsCeeCee
Just following a youtube tutorial again for ideas, inspiration, practice and play. (check out CreationsCeeCee!)
In this tutorial, she shows how she makes little doodle books to keep with her each day. She watercolors shapes on the pages, then doodles in ink later, as she finds opportunity.
Thirty Days of Everyday Life: Day 7 (grocery shopping!)
Grocery shopping at Kroger has turned into a video game. It’s pretty cool. I hope all grocery stores try this. It saves loading the cart, unloading onto the belt, loading into bags (generally yucky plastic bags), loading into the car. At least, saves PART of it. Just load items into reusable bags in the cart after scanning, pay at the kiosk (without unloading. It’s already scanned), and load into the car. Ok, mostly it’s just fun.
Thirty Days of Everyday Life: Day 6 (watercolor practice)
No, I did not go up in three beautiful hot air balloons. Not in my REAL life, anyway. I watched several youtube videos. The Mind of Watercolor  explained how to create simple clouds, just painting a wet wash and lifting with a crumpled paper towel, smoothing a bit with a clean wet round brush:
I am already comfortable with this technique, but to be honest am still learning which pigments stain and which lift (lifting being crucial to the success of this technique) so tried it with both A. Gallo’s Lapis Lazuli and Daniel Smith’s Cerulean. (both non staining, very liftable) The Lapis Lazuli is basically ultramarine, but a very light, fragile color. Cerulean is also light, although can be laid down a little heavier than the Lapis. They both worked fine, just slightly different colors. Then I watched several videos by CreationsCeecee  … Her art is fun and her videos inspire me to play.
I tried a fun prickly flower, on the left, using colored pencil and watercolor. Colored pencils can provide a very nice accent:
and balloons on the right, with watercolor and ink:
I love artists showing me HOW to do what they do, and not minding if I copy to learn. Go try some!
I wasn’t trying to make the full page a picture, but was working in 4 quadrants. However, the right side kinda turned into one cohesive sketch, so I should have done that on the left as well!
Thirty Days of Everyday Life: Day 5, Blueberry pancakes
Sundays rock. The scent of maple syrup and bacon spreading through the house is just The Best AM gift. It lured me out of the studio and began a day of both work and relaxation. We spent the day at a team meeting, dinner with some of our kids, then home, and I forgot to journal until just before bed! So, a quick pancake sketch.
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