dandelions – ThreeSixFiveArt

Daily Journal Entry 4/7/20 – Nature Stuff. And a mini paint palette. Of course.

April 8, 2020April 8, 2020Posted in UncategorizedTagged art journal, daffodils, dandelions, feather, quarantine, quarantine can be relaxing if you can ignore the I-might-die feeling for a few minutes, urban sketching sort of, watercolor, watercolor palette1 Comment

“Stuff”… just bits I found on my walk yesterday… Getting out of this house during quarantine is nice… plus, my dr insists. 🙂 30 minutes of cardiac movement every(ish) day. Yesterday I noticed a big feather, the dying daffodils right by my door, and dandelions in different stages. It was nice to just walk, and breathe, and notice.

I used a little paint tin my friend Shelley sent me for Christmas. It is actually decorated like a Ouija board, and held mints, but she sent it with a list of colors recommended by…. someone professional online artist she respects. But I forget who…

Anywho…. the colors work really nicely together. So they were right. It is missing a few of my favorites go-to colors… but I didn’t need them, turns out. I’m listing the colors this other artist (I’m sorry I don’t have your name here) recommended, as well as what replacements I made in my set. I tried to match pigment numbers (which I googled for each brand) and actual colors as closely as possible.

The recommended colors:

WN (Winsor & Newton) Permanent Rose

DS (Daniel Smith) Pyrrol Scarlet

SCH (Schmincke) Transparent Orange

DS New Gamboge

WN Winsor Yellow

WN Quinacridone Magenta

WN Burnt Sienna

WN Paynes Gray

WN Cerulean Blue

DS Phthalo Yellow Green

WN Winsor Violet

WN French Ultramarine

WN Winsor Blue GS (green shade)

DS Ultramarine Turquoise

WN Permanent Sap Green

(I did this on the back of the swatch card, with the colors I ACTUALLY used. They don’t all look the same but are closer than you’d think, just some of my swatches are painted darker. I’m looking at you, Paynes Gray… I know mine is not neat and tidy like hers. She is a super pro at it)

I didn’t actually have exactly the colors and brands selected, but got as close as I could, because she had sent me a swatch card to match. Here’s what I changed out:

I used QoR Quin Magenta instead of WN Magenta

used a mixture of DS Burnt Sienna and Quin Burnt Orange for WN Burnt Sienna

used QoR Paynes Gray for WN Paynes Gray

used DS Cerulean Blue Chromium for WN Cerulean Blue

used a mixture of WN Ultramarine and QoR Quin Magenta for WN Winsor Violet

used DS Phthalo Blue GS instead of Winsor Blue GS

used a mixture of DS Ultramarine and DS Phthalo Green for DS Ultramarine Turquoise (the same way DS makes it)

used DS Sap Green for WN Permanent Sap Green.

(I had WN Permanent Rose, DS Pyrrole Scarlet, SCH Transparent Orange, DS New Gamboge, and WN Winsor Yellow)

I don’t generally use Paynes Gray… I use DS Bloodstone if I want a gray or black color and don’t want to mix one. I like its moodiness and granulation. I also include DS Buff Titanium, and DaVinci Red, and DS Green Apatite Genuine in most of my palettes. I’m going to keep this one the way it is for a while, and see if I miss them… I can always switch them out. Overall a very nice selection of colors, even if I did replace many.

(for the shadows i added a bit of the burnt sienna mix to the paynes gray… I like it)

Soooo…. how are you spending your quarantine?

Dandelions (4/11/2018)

April 11, 2018Posted in UncategorizedTagged dandelions, qor watercolors, Spring shouldn't be this chilly, watercolorLeave a comment

Well. That pretty much says it all. Except… QoR watercolors, on my LAST piece of Winsor & Newton cotton watercolor paper. I hate using up the last of anything.

Watercolor “Stain Doodle Technique” 3/23/18

March 23, 2018Posted in UncategorizedTagged ants, dandelions, doodle art, maremismallart, puddle art, stain art, watercolorLeave a comment

Another idea from Maremi SmallArt tutorials. (“Watercolor Stain Doodle Beginner’s Technique”.)

Basically… get your paper wet and put little puddles of color wherever you want them, with no plan in mind. Just colors and combinations and shapes you like… after it dries, ink in a little doodle of whatever you imagine it looks like. (I decided this was a GREAT situation for using my QoR paints, with their long tendrilly flow)

This was tricky for me at first. My biggest problem right now is coming up with creative ideas, and all I could see was what Marta had drawn on her paper, which didn’t look like mine at all. After a few minutes, though, after thinking about seaweed or plants in a fish tank… I saw an ant at the bottom, in the middle (???) and then the dandelions were obvious. It was a good exercise for me, and I was happy with what I came up with. I’ll do this again, it was fun.

I did add a couple dabs of shadow once I finished. And yes, these ants are darn big. I like them that way 🙂

Day 194 (Thurs July 13) watercolor dandelions

July 13, 2017July 13, 2017Posted in UncategorizedTagged art, dandelions, day 194, painting, pentalic, project, toilet paper roll, watercolorLeave a comment

I followed several youtube tutorials to create these dandelions using a toilet paper tube/roll.

you could do some pretty cute fireworks, too, maybe…

This is watercolor on a page of my pentalic journal, a page that I had to remove… when the journal arrive this page was not fully attached. Frankly I really tried to dislike the journal because of that, but it is actually one of my favorites… I REALLY like using it and will order more.

Day 121 (Mon 5/1) Last journal page! “Weeds.” (Some of my favorite flowers are weeds)

May 1, 2017Posted in UncategorizedTagged art, buttercups, dandelions, Day 121, last journal page, project, watercolor2 Comments

There’s something nice about filling a journal cover to cover!

Day 20:pen and ink sketch. With cat.

January 20, 2017January 20, 2017Posted in UncategorizedTagged cats, dandelions, day 20, drawing, pen and ink, project, sketch, threesixfive, threesixfive.art4 Comments

Just an ink sketch of dandelions. But they are one of my favorite things. And Slightly was being a real attention hound. 🙂 Which means I took like 20 pics of one sketch because I thought he was full of cuteness.