Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Getting Going with More Poppies

MORE poppies - using UART sanded pastel paper
instead of watercolor paper - making watercolor.
glue gun stencil, and saran effects...but
found that it just didn't pop
like it should.
Next lesson (I had just an inkling of what it might be and...)
I went ahead and added Derwent and pastel pencil.

Like it, oh so much, better.

Monday, March 20, 2017

Organically Speaking

"Poppy I"
watercolor - with a variety of tweaks
In my online class with Tonja Sell, part of our lessons for this week
is watercolor on different papers using
our own hand made glue gun stencils, gauze, and saran wrap.
This is the precursor to a poppy done on UART
pastel sanded paper..which reacts a little differently 
to this method watercolor paper vs. pastel sandpaper.
I see that this was an important
lesson, so I could push the technique to
look similar on the sanded pastel paper.
It will probably take more layers than 
about the three that I have here.

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

More Experimenting

This time I am playing with watercolor swatches 
and complimentary colors in pastels - on top.  
Some of the colors added literally POPPED off the surface, creating an optical illusion.
The class I am involved in is "Merging Watercolor and Pastel" 
on patreon.com with Tonja Sell.
Lovin' it!

Sunday, March 5, 2017

Experimentation

Experimenting with watercolor, stencils of all types, even ones made with 
glue from a glue gun, gauze, waxpaper, saran wrap..so fascinating and fun!



Taking an online course, MERGING WATERCOLOR WITH PASTELS...stay tuned, we are 
about to get down to the nitty gritty.

In the meantime, one studio cat had to be 'shaved' the other day...her fur was 
so matted and full of knots, it was beyond our capability to help.
Had to be sedated and shaved at the vet.

She looks so cute..shows her tubbiness, however, the
other studio cat now HATES her..guess it's the 'cootie' smell
of the vet clinic and maybe because she looks so different and cool.






More NEW art pieces

  Lukki - watercolor 9" x 12" acrylic done from Unsplash ph ref, thanks C Deluvio!