We had to say goodbye to our Dudley today. Sad times, but now he has no more earthly troubles and I know he’s running and playing with friends long since passed. Art always soothes my soul. The night sketch was created Sunday. I knew our days together were numbered and I so wanted to document […]
Category Archives: Watercolor
Journaling a Road Trip
Don’t you just love the words….. Road Trip? ‘My love’ drove the entire way so I could document our day 🙂 It was a tad difficult trying to letter as we drove along….. I finished the page as we pulled in the driveway!
iPad/Paper 53 and Watercolor Workshop continued
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 […]
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 […]
