Month: August 2019

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In Between

Monastery Ruins

I’m in between World Watercolor Month and Inktober now so what to do, what to do? As those of you who follow me on a regular basis have seen, July was devoted to watercolor and I’ve pretty much kept up a routine working with watercolor this month as well.

What you haven’t seen, since I haven’t posted anything about it, is my pen & ink work with a new pen I recently purchased. The Koh-I-Noor Radiograph pen is actually technical pen used by draftsmen and artists. I wanted to try this little gem because October is also Inktober. That’s a challenge of 31 days of pen & ink, and watercolor.

Once again I’ll be shooting for quantity over quality…for the most part in this competition. Continue reading “In Between”

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I’m Awash in Wash

Foggy Sunrise

When I say I’m awash in wash it means I’m concentrating on washes this past week. Inspired by a young lady I stumbled across on Instagram, Danielle Lanslots, I’ve been experimenting with some new colors and wash techniques.

Danielle pretty much works in landscapes and I LOVE her simple but striking style. I’m seeing the paintings she’s done and asking myself, “How can I adapt this type of wash to my paintings and sketches?” After watching her video about washes I made my first attempt and you can see the results on  Foggy Sunrise.
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Back to Basics

Creating Textures…

It’s time for me to get back to basics. After a month of pumping out paintings for World Watercolor Month I’ve decided what I need to do now is work the basics. What do I mean by basics? I’m glad you asked.

My “style”, if you will, pretty much revolves around pen & ink and watercolor. I’m not an oil painter. I don’t work in pastels or acrylics and my style is based upon a sort of realism that’s, I believe, a bit like illustration. With that in mind, as I look at my recent works I want to delve deeper into my pen & ink work and basic watercolor. Continue reading “Back to Basics”

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World Watercolor Month

World Watercolor Month is in the can! It’s done, finished…over…

Crape Myrtle

As I mentioned back in July in my article Quantity-Quality-Or Both, participating in challenges such as World Watercolor Month gives me an opportunity to produce a number of watercolor sketches—quantity. As I reviewed them this weekend I noticed that, as I thought, some were higher quality than others.

I also noticed that as I got closer to finishing the month, quality seemed to go down…until that LAST painting. My first painting last month for World Watercolor Month was the Crape Myrtle on the left.

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