My friend sarah has a coloring page you can dowload and print. It was a fun way to spend a cold and snowy afteroon.
A recent watercolor commission for a friend: And a video experiment from photographs taken during the process: Found a small inexpensive wooden box that seemed perfect for some miniature art supplies. Not sure how functional it will be (a true Pochade box carries all your supplies and allows you to work on the inside of the lid), but I'm giving it a shot! Just had to carve out a place for the waterbrush to fit. Those tiny artist trading card blanks fit perfectly in one of the spaces. (you can buy them in packs or cut your own, these are made watercolor paper, and are in individual plastic sleeves) Added heavier hinges, gave the inside a coating of wax and rubbed some old oil paint and varnish on the outside.
Combining calligraphy practice with one of the mini watercolor palettes I've been creating. (Small tins and different kinds of oven baked and air dry clay) "Quin" stands for Quinacridone, a wonderfully vibrant pigment family. I found the empty tin at the natural foods store, it is meant to hold homemade lip balm. I painted the colors on watercolor paper and glued and decoupaged the paper onto the lid. Then I went a little overboard and made it all into a card... Several others in progress. The little Altoids tins are great, and you can find all sorts of vintage tins at antique and junk stores. I've used Sculpey (which turns out nice and smooth, but it needs to be baked in the oven) and DAS, which is an air dry clay - it shrinks a little and has to be glued into the tin to keep it in place. A white glossy spray paint made for metal applied to the inside of the lid creates a nice white mixing surface (it helps to rough the surface up a little with fine steel wool first). Took my mom's 1950's -ish Winsor Newton Watercolor palette camping with us on the Stillwater River a few weeks ago. Did some sketches by the river while Steve fished.
Still life sketch using pencil, a copic multiliner and some watercolors. The sketchbook is 6" x 4"
Experimenting with Walnut Ink, Gouache and a dip pen, on the inside of a Triscuit box. The ink bleeds a little, but the flecked color of the chipboard is pleasing.
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July 2020
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