This time, I took the oranges and blues I used in the previous painting and did this work on top of a print I’d made and drawn on with waterproof ink. Painting in watercolor over the printed paper with color on it was interesting - it did not cover completely so made some nice texture in the paper.
I felt like I needed some color in my life so used a photo from Free Reference Photos for Artists (a FB group). I liked the warm oranges and changed the colors to browns and Manganese Blues for the complimentary colors.
I had a lot of prints - most small 1/4 sheet sizes. Never sure what to do with them as printing them seems to be the end of my inspiration for printmaking! Ha ha.
But figured I could always keep them out in a box where I could see them occasionally…and try to do more with them besides just collage work. So I am playing with adding things with drawing over them to see what I come up with.
The last one is from the Inchie Challenge from Amy Maricle I signed up for - she gives us a word prompt every day and we do something in a small format (supposed to be 2 x 2 inches but I often go bigger than that and then glue the resulting piece in my sketchbook). This has been fun to do and keeps me working toward something - you never know what those little pieces will become in the future. Hope you all are being creative.
We got more snow and a coating of crunchy ice over top - it’s beautiful but cold and I’m ready for spring but it will come…until then, I’ll stay in my little art room and do something, or listen to music (I have rediscovered K.D. Lang and if you have not heard her version of the Roy Orbison song, Crying, you need to do it now - but have a tissue handy.)
