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Overhauling my Studio……
After the holidays just seemed like the right time to reorganize my art space, which translates into completing all the unfinished projects as well as...
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Color Theory – orange blue
Don’t like this dude at all (whoever he is) BUT here’s the orange-blue combo. Sooooo different vibrationally than the red/bluegreen.
Color Theory – red vs bluegreen with a twist
Well look what happens here….the pic on left is using napthol red mixed with a bit of alizarin crimson opposite cobalt blue mixed with viridian. ...
10 Color Wheel
See my other Color Theory posts for more on this. But this 10 Color Wheel turns things all around if you are used to working off the 12 color wheel. ...
Nightfall
The mood on this one is quite strange….I myself am not sure what she is thinking. A bit Twilight-ish? I wonder if she has fangs behind that inscrutable...
Update on my crazy palette labelling obsession
APOLOGIES: I took these pics quickly at my desk this morning, so the color is off….all yellow. UPDATE: What i tried Election nite on this gouache...
My teeniest travel palette
My mom’s golf bag…..she sure loved golf, and I don’t share that, but I know she would appreciate my using it for something that i do...
And last but not least….my travel palettes.
This is my bigger travel kit, but i take it on airplanes, and big trips. I purchased a Koi 18 color kit cuz the design is brilliant. Love the way the...
More on Election nite….More palettes
I discovered this putty….and with it I am able to add spaces for more paint. See below. In the above (totally cheap hate it) palette, but then...
More on election nite….Schminckes next
These are my beloved Schmincke pan paints….originally the 24 full pan set, but I purchased a few half pans and squished them in there….and...
Here’s what I did while I watched the election last nite…..
Watching TV drives me nuts, unless I’m doing something else at the same time. So rather than biting my nails early on when the election looked...
Birthday Flowers – my ARTkick is a year old
My Birthday Palette got out my Schminckes! 8″ x 10″ on 130lb pentallic, watercolor, ink My Birthday Bouquet #2 17.5″ x 13″...
Colorcharts
Created these primarily for the Watercolor Pencil class with Kate, but added a wheel for my gouache and wc palette as well. Got the idea to cut out the...
Back to freestyle…
Have been missing that joy of drawing when i started a few months ago, think i’m working so hard at LEARNING EVERYTHING I don’t know (what...
New brush holder
Well, the brushes are new (Dragon’s Tongue Kolinsky….just fab from CheapJoes.com) though now upon a closer look only that blue handled round...
Art Space….
Well, there’s the pencils…..and how i envy so many of you with your art studio, art space….mine is all on my coffee table in the living...