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Redefining the Self: Another Watercolor Portrait on Fluid 100 Hot Press Watercolor Paper
I tend to work in a series and this was item three in a series this spring that started with the image I posted in September 16th’s blog post. The second image in the series was the image in Monday’s blog post. What Do They Have in Common That Holds Them […]
Watercolor on Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper
This is the second fully worked watercolor painting I did after my second cataract surgery. I still didn’t have glasses. I had uncorrected vision, so it was a headache for many reasons to work this way, but it was fun because I LOVE FLUID 100 Watercolor paper. It’s their 100 percent cotton paper and it […]
Why Drawing Matters
Drawing matters for a number of reasons. Last week I had a note from a past student who had recently lost her mother. The student had stopped drawing for months. Grief disrupts life in a thousand ways. When I was writing to her I was thinking about my own maternal loss this year, the death […]
In Contest—Paper Comparisons
Note: Oops, that’s embarrassing, a typo in the post’s title. “In Context.” To change it now will mess up the permalink. If you are testing papers to see whether you like working on them then it is important that you test all your usual techniques to ensure that the paper will respond in ways that […]
Useful Tools: The Molotow Grafx Art Masking Liquid Pump Marker
If you paint in watercolor, inks, or acrylics, chances are at some point you’ve tried to mask something off so that you could retain the white of your paper, or an earlier color that you had laid down. Artists use lots of products for masking—tape is the obvious one, especially if you want to create […]