A 365 day art project… one drawing a day
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.
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.
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.
Well, not ME, but the rest of US. Practicing my people sketches. And Emmett. (Practically a person)
The beautiful old house at the Hampton Roads Winery in Surry. (Technically: Elberon) If you live in Hampton Roads and haven’t been here, it’s a nice, relaxing day. With wine. And goats. Canson mixed media rough 7×10 tablet, daniel smith watercolors, uniball deluxe micro .5 pen.
Sennelier paint on khadi paper. The shadows are killing me. But it’s the paint this time.
I have tried and tried to get a good shadow using different colors, it just keeps lifting color away. Best I can do right now is a muddy gray.
This one is for Kathy… a rather messy sketch of a Hilton Village house in Newport News, VA, USA. Who could resist loving this adorable little house? You should see the inside. Hilton has got to be one of the sweetest neighborhoods in the world.
I hate to post something unfinished. But… I’m happy with my sketch. I’ve drawn my koi fish, and hopefully will get them painted tomorrow or Sunday. No more time today! Well that’s the point of this year I guess… to show myself that even when there are lots of other obligations, I can still make time for art. Or whatever else is important to me.
Yep. Mine. All mine. A tutorial-free zone tonight!! A mermaid, inspired by last night’s visit to downtown Norfolk. Norfolk=mermaid. If you live here, you know.
Our little Beetle in our freshly cleaned garage. Minus the other car. My Beetle likes her alone time. This is using my Daniel Smith watercolors (in my Meeden palette! More about that below) in a new tiny book, a Stillman & Birn beta series mixed media journal, 5×3 inches. This book is small enough to fit in my bag that holds my phone and cards and not much else. I thought it might be TOO small but I liked working in it and really like the weight and feel of the pages. I’ve read good things about this company and think I’ll really love these books. This book is nice… great paper, lays flat for working, very white, heavy pages. Still… I think I’ll go the next size up as well and save this for taking out places.
Regarding the Meeden palette… I mentioned this one the other day and still adore it. For the price it’s a bargain and I plan to get the larger one, too. But I wanted to mention differences… I purchased the Sennelier 18 half pan set (at a GREAT price, imo, by the way.. shop around a bit. I’ll talk about these paints another day) and they are in a similar tin. Differences… the sennelier tin is a truer white, great for mixing colors on. The sennelier tin keeps paint from beading as you mix it, which is nice. (the meeden will probably work itself out over time, I’d guess…), and the sennelier lid lays flatter, as opposed to the meeden, which has one side that slants up, making it difficult to mix on that side. I can push it down, I just don’t want to break it.
I had said before I didn’t know what the differences were, so I wanted to clear that up here. I still love the meeden and think it’s a tremendous value. Definitely my choice for an empty metal palette, and I plan to buy the larger one as well. The differences are visible and clear but not terribly important. Â But if the two palettes were both empty and the same price (which isn’t the case!!) I’d get the Sennelier. It IS nicer.
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