Over the years I’ve had several iterations of my palette. If you want to read all about my thoughts and where my artist’s palette started, go here. This year I’ve gone totally Da Vinci watercolors for my 2019 palette. There are a few good reasons for that. First, these paints love me, they work the best for…
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It’s Paint Porn Time Again!
Calling all artists, calling all artists! Yes, I know how much we ALL love looking at other artists’ stuff. It’s one of my very favorite guilty pleasures, drooling over someone else’s palette, paint bag, travel set or art shopping haul. So, since I just had my 47th birthday on Wednesday, I thought I’d show &…
Ooh, Paint Porn!!
I know, don’t all we artist love, just LOVE seeing the palette of other painters. I absolutely love it when my fellow artists swatch their new paint or show their new tools. I don’t have new tools (I’m still coveting the Whiskey Painter’s Master Palette and have for AGES but that’s nothing new). I do…
It’a All About The Shadows
(Click to Enlarge) So I finally got those pesky paint tubes all painted up. I don’t think I’ve ever done such an intense and filled piece before but I really love how it turned out. It’s surprising, as you’ll see, how many subtle shadows were removed just by scanning the page. I noticed that and then…
I Paint Therefore I Am
Get one at Zazzle.com So darn true, dat. I haven’t been painting much at all in the last couple months and I found myself becoming unlike me the more time I let slip away. Therefore it is so true for me, “I Paint Therefore I Am” I can’t get over how much just putting brush…
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…