A LITTLE STUDIO?

Come into my studio, it’s very wet outside!

IT LOOKS EASY BUT IT’S NOT

This simplistic cup and saucer looks so easy, but it’s really not.  The technique is, you lay down the color on the whole page and then, before the paper dries, you start lifting off the color.  Your goal is to get the shape right and to get back to white (or close to white).  So don’t use a staining color!  In the book it says to try this 10 times and then, if you haven’t gotten it yet, try again :). Isn’t that always the way = just keep trying.


I didn’t get the saucer right (can never seem to master those ellipses free-hand).  But I like the cup well enough.  

And this little flower on a scrap piece of paper is pretty saturated and full of color (not too much lifting here), but I do like the way the Bismuth Yellow (Daniel Smith) dropped into the center created the little star-shaped stamens.  

LAST TOMATOES

No more tomatoes at the Farmer’s Market, but I can still paint some.  Very wet and loose - I may just be getting the hang of this technique!

LITTLE LEAF EXPERIMENT

Trying to work on the iPad and update some blog posts.  I’ll be talking to the local tech guy about the photo all disappearing from the desktop and what can be done to try to retrieve all those - I hope!!!  

Until then, this isn’t as quick and easy (or familiar) to do on the iPad but it’s do-able, so...

Hope you all are having a better November than I.
I’ve had 4 migraines (which means 8 days) of pain or aftereffects of pain so far this month :(. And that was before I lost all the photos on Sweetie’s computer!!

This is another small scrap of paper wet-in-wet trying to vary the colors of the leaves.  This could be a fun experiment, just playing with any colors, doesn’t have to be found in nature :) 

AUTUMN SEEDPODS

Autumn seedpods.

SOFT LANDSCAPE

Long and soft landscape.  Lots of green

Still practice practice practice to get it right.  Sometimes I think I've got it, and then it eludes me again.  

Watercolor takes a lifetime to master!

GREEN LANDSCAPE

Square landscape. 

Lots of wet-in-wet and waiting for the right time to darken (and getting it wrong and trying again).  
When this wet-in-wet style is done well, it looks so easy and beautiful and fresh.  That's what I'm aiming for with this practice practice practice.

YELLOW

Just  playing with yellows and what works to shade them without getting too green or brown.

What do you use to shade yellow?

RAINY STREET

Rainy street in autumn.



We certainly are having enough rain.  So much that the little Halloweeners were few and far between last night.  Now I have to eat all this leftover candy!!  So sad! ha ha