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Acrylic poppies 3/29/19

March 29, 2019March 29, 2019Posted in UncategorizedTagged acrylic paint, March sketchbox challenge, poppies, sketchboxLeave a comment

So yesterday I posted this one, watercolor poppies:

Today I got a Sketchbox subscription box in the mail. Sometimes I put these aside for a bit… I almost never use the whole thing at once. All of the art subscription boxes suggest we try to make something using all the supplies. (Always seems like WORK…??) So today I thought, “hey I’ll try using all the supplies!” To be honest, Sketchbox makes it easier, by providing paper (or in this case, a little canvas board) so there’s no excuse not to at least TRY. This month was acrylic paint… yay! So I decided to go ahead and try to redo my poppies in acrylic.

Okay, not as good. But not horrible. A few more intelligently placed layers and I could have something. I do not feel capable of any more intelligently placed layers yet, though. I already cheated a tiny bit by adding some blue paint I had here, because I couldn’t get anything for the background but a muddy mess with the colors they provided. But I’m happy to say I did use ALL the supplies they sent me. Ta-daa!!

Poppies! and other pretty watercolor stuff 3/29/19

March 29, 2019Posted in UncategorizedTagged A. Gallo watercolor paints, direct watercolor, Fabriano paper, notecards, poppies, watercolor1 Comment

I keep coming back to this “type” of sketch… obviously my favorite, what I think I do best, and most comfortable to me. I will be taking a watercolor class in April to try to strengthen my ability to do looser paintings, without ink or pencil, but I imagine this type is actually “me”.

A. Gallo watercolor, Fabriano 100% cotton paper 140 lb, uniball deluxe micro pen

I love these poppies! I’d frame them, but this is actually for a watercolor swap, so I’ll have to do another for myself! My partner is new to watercolor, and I wanted to show her several different ways of painting. So I also did this leaf on a notecard for her, painted directly:

and this little notecard (I used some stickers for inspiration!):

None of these required pencil sketches first, they are all pretty basic.

Which do you like the best?

Poppies. And daffodils. And a new travel watercolor idea…with magnets, tin, and paint!

March 9, 2019March 9, 2019Posted in UncategorizedTagged art journal, artist, daffodils, Indigo watercolor journal, magnetic wrist band, painting, plein air tools, poppies, travel tin, urban sketching tools, watercolor, watercolor journaling, watercolor paintingLeave a comment

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So after watching “Following the White Rabbit” set up her palette on Youtube, I was inspired to look around and see if I had a similar sized tin. I found two. One is a Pentalic drawing pencil tin, the other BARELY larger, a Sketchbook watercolor pencil tin. The tiny bit of size difference allowed the Sketchbook tin to close perfectly over my half pans, and fit an extra row of pans, too (or brushes, if I prefer, later) Plus, it’s pink and cute.

It’s slim, lightweight, already painted white inside, and EXACTLY holds three rows of 9 half pans, so I can use it in the studio or out and about. I filled it with lots of Daniel Smith, a few Schmincke, 2 QoR, and even one A.Gallo paint.

(yeah this is what my table generally looks like)

I ordered THIS magnetic tool wristband from Amazon for under $10. (Arrived in two days… bless you, Amazon) Some of the other bands’ reviews said the magnets weren’t strong enough, so check reviews carefully if you don’t get this same one… this one is quite strong enough for my needs! (You see where I’m going with this?)

I added super strong little magnets (Found HERE on Amazon) to a little plastic cup with a screw on lid, and to the bottom of a swatch card I made of the colors in my palette, set the whole thing on my wrist and was ready to try a painting… (I use E 6000 glue because I have it… there may be other glue that works for these magnets as well. Somehow between December 1st and today I have used 99 of these little magnets!)

This worked great, and I THINK might be even better once I take it “on location” somewhere, because I’ll have my etchr bag with me to rest my arm on! It would fit ANY size tin, and I have much smaller ones if I want to use them instead, but this tin is very lightweight.

So what do you think? Love the idea, or hate it? What type of things have you tried to make plain air or urban sketching more convenient?

-Indigo watercolor journal (I like the paper, I don’t like the spiral binding), Daniel Smith paint (Perylene red, lemon yellow, quin gold, green apatite, Uniball Micro Deluxe pen

Day 27, 30×30 challenge: Poppies

June 27, 2018Posted in UncategorizedTagged day 27/30x30, jay lee flowers, keep on trying, poppiesLeave a comment

30 paintings in 30 days… sketches really… but I’m almost finished! I’ve exceeded 30 actual sketches, but haven’t painted every single day, which was my original goal. Still, I feel successful with this challenge. Next month is Watercolor Month so maybe I’ll try it again.

Today I followed Jay Lee painting a poppy.

Here are my three attempts, #1 on the left, #2 top right, #3 bottom right. To be honest, I consider all of these failures, but maybe they are successes in that I took time to paint, and did learn things.