Just a boring work day, so I included a scene from the Alaska livecam we often watch.
Thirty Days of Everyday Life, Day 21: Tuesday/work
Tag: watercolor sketch
The Circle of Life….
Admit it, you’re singing the song in your head right now… Well, I am anyway. I have been listening to this cicada for days and was kind of sad to find her (him?) on my driveway. Dead. But she/he seems to have died of natural causes, so that’s good. Nothing violent.
Just a quick simple sketch. The green highlights on the wings were more luminescent than this, and quite surprising. That raised x on the back was a surprise, too. I used a new (cheap! But fun!) paint set for this, which I will reveal in a day or two!
Is it weird to paint dead bugs? It didn’t seem weird at the time but now that I’m posting it, seems a bit creepy.
Birthday Girl
Only six years old, and already she’s a comic book character.
A few errors, but she’s pretty cute. Maybe I’ll thicken up the lines a bit.
I’m using a new ‘faux squirrel’ paintbrush. PLEASANTLY CHEAP. Through an online sale at http://www.wetpaintart.com… an art supply store in Minnesota. I don’t know if the sale is still going on, but they are worth keeping an eye on. I’ve gotten both of my ‘limited edition’ Schmincke watercolor sets there, and my QoR mini pan set, some good brushes on sale and a miniature paint set which is super adorable. Good sales, good products, and great customer service) I like it. I still get most of my supplies other places but some of my favorites from there. I’m a fan. (If you happen to live near them, it sounds like they offer a bunch of cool classes as well!)
I thought maybe in this journal I’d add a little swatch area for the palette choices on each page. It will show me what I’m usually using, in the future it will show me what colors I used (because I definitely won’t remember) and also I can learn a bit about choosing a palette for a piece, maybe.
I guess tomorrow I’d better add the pigment numbers as well.
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.
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