Again, we worked from a photograph, using the iPad / Paper 53 app, to learn how to feather colors into each other like when creating a wash in watercolor. Oooooo, I’m really liking the new skills I’m learning using the Paper 53 🙂 Step two…. create a painting from the sketch. This exercise was on […]
Category Archives: Watercolor
New Ideas, New Work…. Great Workshop with David Rankin!
One of my artistic goals this year is to further my inspiration and learn new painting processes and techniques. I’m off to a great start! David taught us how our iPads and the Paper by 53 app are invaluable tools to have in our artist’s quiver. In our first exercise we worked from a photograph […]
Workshop Wednesday
I’m taking a workshop with David Rankin. We are sketching on iPads using the Paper 53 app, then using this image to create a traditional watercolor painting. Yee ha!
Stewardia malecodendron
My coworker has this southern native tree/shrub growing on his property and brought a cutting to work for me. It sat on my desk several days before I had the opportunity to make a sketch. So long so that it was now or never, as the blossoms were starting to fade. I decided to use […]
Field Sketching Friday
Friday, my co-worker/naturalist, Kristen Marshall Mattson and I led a nature journaling workshop for members of Spring Island. What a great way to start the day! Walking through the woods, examining plants, sketching our finds, adding details, learning new things both art and nature related. YUM! None of us wanted it to end 🙂 Did […]
EcoTherapy
Until a few weeks ago, the term EcoTherapy hadn’t crossed my path. However the practice of EcoTherapy has been with me for a long, long time. It’s the main reason I promote Nature Journaling! Get out into Nature as much as you can and sketch, make notes, paint and observe the wonder of Nature. You […]
