Wednesday, August 31, 2022

WORKING OUT OF THE SLUMP?

 Decided to take a few online courses through Domestika.com.  The courses are full of good information, videos, extra printouts, etc., and are very inexpensive.  One drawback = they are all in Spanish (so far) with subtitles or English overdubbing.  You get used to it and I have taken 2 and am in a third right now - all to help with watercolor portraits.  We’ll see how it goes.  


So far, I’ve finished a course by Sol Barrios, who taught us how to use watercolor and graphite pencil for portraits and painting very lightly, layering the color.  I did okay with the portrait she used in the course, but then tried one of my granddaughter and really got too heavy-handed so add to add watercolor pencils to it.  

















Then I tried again and did better.  As with every new way of doing something, you have to practice.  I think I need to go back into the 2nd granddaughter version around the eyes and make them pop more.



At least, these are interesting and I learn something from them - and it makes me get into my little art room and do something.

Sunday, August 7, 2022

SUMMERTIME SLUMP

 It’s hot and humid.  The news is not good, there is nothing much I want to do so…

going to take a break until September, I think (unless my painting muse returns from her sabbatical!!). 

I appreciate all the comments on my post and apologize for not doing the same for you on your recent posts (there are some blogs I cannot post on for some strange reason - it keeps asking me to sign in, which I do, then it leads me to the comment section and I try to comment and it tells me I don’t have permission and need to sign in with Google - a loop that gets me nowhere - I’m sure it’s just a google glitch and will fix itself someday).