Own Your Encore

My Encore Excursions

  • Color of Food

    Recently I heard Sanjay Gupta MD talking about his book Keep Sharp Build a Better Brain at Any Age so I put a copy in my audible library and started to listen this week. Gupta narrates his book and in Chapter 7 ‘Food for Thought’ he mentions ‘color’ … the color of food. His statement […]

    MSRitzman

    January 27, 2022
    2022 Color
    Brain health, Color week, Fresh food color, Sanjay Gupta MD, watercolor practice
  • Sunlit Foliage

    When out on a trail a quick photo and a sketch are a great way to capture the scene and create a lasting memory. While the trail sketch allows the scene to be edited and put in perspective, final color tends to be a studio practice. In a recent class with Molly Hashimoto she shared […]

    MSRitzman

    January 23, 2022
    2022 Color
    color choices, Color week, Foliage sketch, Molly Hashimoto, nature journal, Trail sketching, watercolor practice
  • Ink part two

    Dipping into the history of ink has been somewhat disappointing in that there is not much history about the ‘color’ of writing ink. How did black, blue and red ink come to dominate the ink for handwriting today? The Egyptian and Chinese cultures invented ink simultaneously using charcoal or soot and animal fat hence black […]

    MSRitzman

    January 12, 2022
    2022 Color
    color choices, Color week, ink
  • Ink [ part one ]

    After 50 weeks of posting about color, I continue to be curious about color in the arts and will continue to explore for another year here. This week it’s ink part one! The curiosity about ink color started when I was setting up some tools for trying modern calligraphy and asked myself ‘how is ink […]

    MSRitzman

    January 8, 2022
    2022 Color, Sketching
    ball point pen, color choices, Color week, ink, Molly Hashimoto, nature journal, Winslowartcenter.com

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