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Art Supply Gifts That Derail Your Practice
It happens a lot, according to my students’s stories. A friend or family member gives them a fabulous art supply gift—all the watercolor tubes in the Daniel Smith line; all the gouache from Holbein; all the color pencils in the Primacolor Premier line. And the artist recipient hits overwhelm. Having an abundance of new options […]
Studies, Drafts, Loose Sheets: Getting a Grip on a Project that Mixes Text and Images
In response to my “What Is a Study?” blog post a week ago, Maery wrote in a comment. I think “a study” may be related to something I’m trying to figure out right now. I want to combine my writing and drawing interests and endeavors together. And am starting a journey towards figuring out how […]
Skin Tones: Sunburnt
Besides freckles I’ve been looking at sunburnt and sun-damaged skin. The same approach I mentioned in Monday’s post applies here—look for the layers. In this case that means look for the damage. But then because I didn’t want to go all the way to dermatological textbook examples so I had to decide when to stop. […]
Let Yourself Push Your Sketch Marks Now and Then
OK, we can’t get the whites of the paper back when we are working in pen and ink (unless we resort to the X-acto blade, or ProWhite gouache), but it’s still a useful endeavor to keep pushing with the lines. I find that working with a dried out pen pushes me to be a little […]
In Context—Another Peek at Pandemic Life
Pandemic life can’t help but pop up in your journal if you’re working from home. I’ve been sorting my images, all in little folders ready for blog posts. I have had some, like this one from 2020 set to go—but I don’t remember what the topic was to be. Last week (2021) I cooked a […]
In Context: Small Details Matter
In this brush pen and watercolor sketch in a Hahnemühle Travel Journal I’m working with wet media on a drawing paper and loving it. (I’ll have a counter opinion about using non-watercolor paper coming up another day on the blog.) You can click on the image and read the in-context text, me cooling my heals, […]
Another Look At Stuart…
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Always Be Playing: Try Different Approaches with the Nearly Same Media
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In Context—Painting on Drawing Paper
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Nostalgie Is A Fun Paper
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