Les Coucous Tapis Bleu et Rose, 1911

 

I moved from my largest to my smallest sketchbook with this Matisse.  (This is in my Traveler's Notebook.) 

Les Tulippes

 

I'm still enjoying painting with Matisse, although here I changed the composition slightly from the original.  I also replaced oil pastels with watercolor crayons; I don't like the transfer of the oil pastels to the adjacent page when the book is closed.  This one is in my A4 Royal Talens sketchbook. 

Painting with Matisse

 

I'm doing these Matisse copies in every sketchbook I have going.  (The Goldfish is in my A4 Royal Talens.)

I'm especially enjoying replicating Matisse's use of patterns, in my own way of course; I could never accurately reproduce Matisse.

Painting With Joy (and Matisse)

 

At Sketchbook Revival this year I was introduced to a wonderful artist Joy Ting Charde (@joycharde).  I am taking a Creativebug Daily Practice she offers and have attended one of her "Paint With Joy" Zoom sessions.

On Zoom, we drew and painted works by Matisse.  Joy is very loose and fun and I love that she uses multiple mediums - watercolor, oil pastel, watercolor pencils and pencil crayons.

Our homework assignment is to paint more Matisse works...more to come. 😀 

Palette Cleanse

 

I cleaned out my watercolor palette by making circle shapes in my sketchbook.  I turned it into a bouquet of flowers by adding a little pencil crayon.

Happy Mother's Day!

Yum!

 This is another daily practice from Make Art Where You Are on CreativeBug.  

Having finished my Stillman & Birn landscape sketchbook, I'm now using my  A4 Royal Talens art creation sketchbook.  I divide the page in 2 and put my class notes on the same page.  (In the landscape sketchbook I was putting notes on the page opposite the exercise.)

Here's what the whole page looks like:

Day 9: Blind Contour

Blind Contour is a prompt in the Make Art Where You Are Series on Creativebug.  The teacher, Courtenay Cerruti, says that blind contour drawing is the only kind of drawing she does any more.  I find it fun too and the results never fail to make me smile.

This is one of my baby shoes, in case you can't tell. LOL