I’m combining posts because I’m having a heck of a time catching up to the group doing AEDM. I’m on the Pacific coast of Canada so I’m three hours behind many of the posters in this month’s art everyday challenge. This means that by the evening I’m already totally behind. I find myself posting close…
Archives for 2015
ADEM – Day Two
I only got a few things inked out today. They await paint but you gotta admit that they look like they’ll turn out to be fun projects. I’m looking forward to giving character to every one of my watercolor paint tubes! And Ohhh, ice-cream. It makes me wish for summer again. The ice-cream page reminds…
AEDM – Day One
So, here we are again, in November. I can’t believe how quickly this year has flown by. I have to admit, with the very, very hot summer this year, I was so glad to move into Fall. But now, with the time change already in the wind, we’re into WINTER. I don’t want to be in…
The Perfect Sketchbook is BACK!!
From the crowd funded campaign page of The Perfect Sketchbook If you’re an artist you’ve probably heard of The Perfect Sketchook. A year or so ago a crowd funded pocket sketchbook was born and it was incredibly popular. It had great paper and all the other wonderful bits that every watercolor or pen & ink…
The Cherry On Top
It seems it was months ago that I had the inspiration to line up a bunch of cherries in my large Moleskine and paint them up. I got as far as drawing interesting cherry shapes and putting the word “Cherries” under the drawing. Then I started Tracey Fletcher King’s class and got totally involved in…
Changing My Palatte
Green Bean Love No, not that palette, lol. I mean the one in my mouth. I’ve found that lately I like foods, actually LOVE foods, that I used to HATE. All my life I’ve hated green beans. I know, even the fresh ones right from a warm, sunny garden patch. Nope, hated them. You could…
Watercolor: My Palette
My Cotman Palette This post has been a long time coming. I’ve been working on getting all the colors I wanted for the last couple of years. I started out with Cotman Student watercolor but found them frustrating. When I was mixing paint, I found I got frustrated because what I got was muddier than I wanted…
Did You Bring Me A Letter?
I’m not a happy camper. Canada Post is phasing in community mailboxes for EVERYBODY. Yes, you heard me. Not just rural homes, but everyone in Canada. I heard we are the first developed country to dispense with home delivery. I’ve even seen that they’re usurping little pieces of people’s land to put the ugly boxes on! …
Heavy Clouds, No Rain
Sting sang it best in his song “Heavy Clouds No Rain”: Turned on the weather man just after the news. I needed sweet rain to wash away my blues. He looked at the chart but he looked in vain, Heavy cloud but no rain. Yup, that’s what we’ve had for several months. I live in…
It’s Finally HERE!!
UPDATE: Kate (WetPaintArt.com‘s Customer Service Manager) sent some additional information to help all of you interested in the Schmincke 2015 Palette. She wanted you to have all the info you’ll need to make the right purchase decision. Here’s what she said, “All of the colors except the Walnut Brown are minimally granulating. The Walnut Brown…