Day 159 (thurs 6/8) watercolor flower
Tag: project
Day 158 (Wed 6/7) The Neighbors
My favorite type of art now… this just seems way too simple to count.
This is the road behind my house (even though I don’t live in the country). We, my husband and I, call it the cat barn, because our cat years ago would go visit the cats there, but I don’t really know if there were a bunch of cats or not. I assume there were cats… he’d come back looking a bit rough and mangled… but I never actually saw any.
This afternoon the two horses were outside grazing, and it just felt… pretty.
Day 157 (Tues 6/6) sketching people
I’m finding it easier to sketch people I don’t know than those I do. These are people (and dogs) in Harrisonburg, VA.
They don’t look much like their originals, I’m afraid!
Day 156 (mon 6/5) more lettering
The same project, but much better this time around.
Day 155 (Sun 6/4) Lettering
Working on a lettering project for my son-in-law…using gansai tambi paint, which lays down and flows thick and dark like ink. Here is a link to the 18 color pan set at a particularly good price of $15.27. I wish I’d found this set when I was looking! I got this set of 36 colors for $29.85, still a good deal pan for pan… but the $15 set is a good one for trying something out. I don’t know if the color selection is good or not.
Also interesting to note, this paint is shiny if you lay it down thickly enough. (an unusual attribute!) I tried out this tiny brush I received in my Art Snacks monthly subscription box last month… Prima white gold flat shader 2… it worked really well. Very nice lines! One particularly crooked letter. Maybe he can adjust digitally? Otherwise I’ll paint it again this week.
Day 154 (Sat 6/3) an unfinished page of random people sketches
Sometimes even MY life is just to busy to get much done. Still, I’ve stuck to my goal of doing SOMETHING with art every single day this year, so far, and am really seeing progress. Thanks, everyone, for holding me accountable! I’ll add to the page another day.
Day 153 (Fri 6/2) adding watercolor to a sketch
I decided to try a bit of color on yesterday’s sketch, and wanted to try just one color. I was going to go with indigo first, but something about blue faces put me off. So I went with Daniel Smith’s Bloodstone. This is made from a mineral, no other pigments added. I purchased it expecting a deep eggplant-y purple but it’s a neutral shade, on the red or purple end of the spectrum, and lovely for bringing a loud color down just a touch. It also granulates nicely. If you don’t have this color, in my opinion it’s a really nice one to add. Right now I use it more often than any other neutral. The result:
I’m pretty happy with it. And I loved working with layers of just one color.
Canson mixed media journal, Daniel Smith Bloodstone watercolor, uniball micro deluxe pen
Day 152 (Thursday 6/1) “pen & ink” sketch
This 2017 project is really improving my sketching abilities!! There’s no way I could have done this a year ago. This, by the way, is from our day in Williamsburg, and is what most of our days out with Emmett look like! He’s a big tourist draw.
Day 151 (Wed 5/31) Trying something a little different, but only slightly
A big full page sketch. Turns out, I like the smaller ones better, and like them not filling the page. But I did enjoy the freedom this extra space gave me while working on the man and the dog. This is my husband, btw, and our Newfie, Emmett, in a pose fairly typical of our life now. I don’t think I quite captured my husband’s angle of lean. 🙂 It was pretty extreme. That’s the Sloober towel hanging out of his pocket. (you’ll have to look sloober up on the other blog, allthecrazyworld.wordpress.com)
Emmett was not being as sad as he appears… just stubborn.
Day 150 (Tues 5/30) such a cute group of tourists
I loved their arm-in-armness. These sweet little girls were walking through colonial Williamsburg while we were there Sunday, and I couldn’t help using them in my studies. I caught them just as the littlest twisted around to looked back for her parents.
Done in a VERY small Stillman and Birns watercolor sketchbook with daniel smith watercolor paints. And my favorite uniball deluxe .5 pen.
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