Painterly Days (cont'd)

Here's another page from my Painterly Days Watercoloring Book, painted with watercolor and Twinkling H20's:

In "Alisa Burke" fashion, I painted the page first ignoring the lines altogether.  I used lots of water.

I added the second layer after the first layer was dry.

I signed up for Alisa's Watercolor Blooms class.  Her classes are on sale until August 2nd; it is very good value at $10US.  I'm enjoying the short videos and as usual she is inspiring me to paint.  That's the main thing -  as she says, it is practice that makes you better!

Painterly Days

I'm definitely still having fun with the Painterly Days watercoloring book.  I used lots of water on the background above, and dropped color into it, wet on wet style.

On this next page, I splashed wet color all over the page not paying attention to where the pattern was.  After it was dry I painted some of the areas again.  This time I used Twinkling H20's (metallic watercolor).

Next time I'll try and remember to take a picture between the layers.

Thirty Days of Bible Lettering Project

The last few days of the #30daysofbiblelettering project brought a flurry of supply experiments with them.  Here is the last page in the journal I made for the project, done with Twinkling H20's.  It is Weaver Writing, and I added a shadow with a pencil.

 

 

So the journal was finished, but the project still had a few more days to go.  This is purple gouache with white added so that it pops on the black paper.

 

 

Next, I tried out some Daniel Smith watercolors.  I only have three colors, but with the three primaries you can mix anything!  I was trying to convince myself that I didn't need the new set of Artist Loft watercolors that I had seen in this video.

 

I was using a new brush, a Pentel Aquash brush that I have been eyeing for months and is also used in the video .

 

 

I weakened, and bought the watercolors.  I tried them out in this final piece.  And yes, I love them for lettering.  Having all of those yummy colors already mixed is perfect for a quick quote.  It doesn't make sense to spend more time mixing than lettering. LOL 



 

There was one more day left in the project, but that day brought a jazzy background worth its own blog entry, so stay tuned.

 



Finding Inspiration for ICAD #19-21

I think it was Tammy at Yellow Daisy Art, the brains behind the ICAD project who did a summer to-do list on one of her index cards.  It was a great chance to play with alphabet stamps.

PS - Camping for me means sleeping in the basement when the weather is too hot to sleep upstairs!

Art Projects for Kids make great ICAD projects!

Watercolor Crayon

Oil Pastel and Twinkling H2O's

Dion Dior was the inspiration for this one, and it is dedicated to my friend, Janice, who is getting a great laugh at all of the various supplies I'm using.