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  • Oh Gourdy!

    Getting my watercolors and color pencils ready for gourd season. My home grown collection is just the start and I am looking forward to visiting the local farm stands to pick out some worthy models with Cucurbitaceae character! Gourd worksheet courtesy of Kathleen Mckeenan. She teaches at Gage Academy. Here’s some gourd science from the…

    MSRitzman

    September 10, 2020
    Sketching
  • Birds

    A sketching friend was enrolled in a ‘Birds’ watercolor class and every week she shared her work and talked about the tips from Ian… Ian de Hoog Recently I followed along with a couple of his demos and really like his style of teaching and techniques.  I am now enrolled in his next class and…

    MSRitzman

    September 2, 2020
    Sketching
    Ian de Hoog, watercolor birds
  • Farming

    Growing food is not something I would normally do but the opportunity presented itself in Spring.  I wanted to add a couple fruit trees to the property so planted an apple and a quince in the area I now call The Farm.  This is the same area where I discarded some pumpkin’s I had used…

    MSRitzman

    August 24, 2020
    Projects
  • Broken Windmill

    Broken Windmill

    Instructor Shari Blaukopf offered a watercolor lesson at the Pointe-Claire Windmill The mill lost a wing in a recent wind storm, but it remains a charming site with some good challenges for watercolor sketching.  

    MSRitzman

    August 12, 2020
    Sketching
    point clair, Shari Blaukopf, watercolor practice
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