Currently Browsing: Old Winsor and Newton Watercolor Paper 6 articles
Studies: When You Don’t Have Paper with You
I admit that there are rare occasions when I leave the house without my journal. And without a decent camera even. (My iPhone may be capable of photographic excellence, but I’ve not been able to eek any out of it for either macro shots or bringing distant objects closer!) This page spread is the result […]
Ink Only? Paint It? Or Let It Go?
Everyday we make choices in our journals. The simplest for me is stop at ink only? Paint over the ink (opaquely or transparently)? Or leave the texture alone all together? We get to make a different, individual decision every time we turn a page in our journal. Long ago I was more strict in my […]
In Context: Notes, Notes, Notes, Yes More on Notes
Here is an “in context” post showing notes, notes, notes. Make some notes this week! They help you understand your process, progress, and your life. (I was working in an 8-inch square book I bound with the OLD version of Winsor & Newton watercolor paper—90 lb. Hot Press. This paper was changed around 2017 and […]
Vintage Hair in Portraits
Vintage hair, I’ve been painting a lot of portraits of people from the 1800s and from the early 20th century. I am fascinated especially with women’s hair—typically piled into what look like impossible constructions. And then of course I’m equally fascinated with that happens to a 19th century man’s heavily creamed hairdo when he takes […]
A Watercolor Sketch of Alun Armstrong
Alun Armstrong’s character in “New Tricks” wears a knitted watch cap in many episodes. And so in March 2021 when I was sketching him every day I ended up sketching him in such a cap quite a lot. That’s fine because I think it’s fun to sketch knitted textures. Here is the sketch before I […]
More Alun Armstrong and More Messing about with a Dried Out Pen
I keep returning to Alun Armstrong the subject of my 31-day March 2021 project—I keep finding more drawings that didn’t get scanned because my backup equipment failed. (Issues still not resolved, making it very interesting here.) I just wrote a post last week about using a dried out brush pen and if you missed that […]