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My Encore Excursions

  • WordPrompt April GREEN

    WordPrompt April GREEN

    For someone who blogs about color each week I welcome ‘Green’ as the WordPress monthly prompt. For those who are not WordPress publishers the monthly prompt challenge is to help writers with a creative topic, a ‘monthly word to inspire a new post whatever you publish’. Recently I have participated in online classes offered by […]

    MSRitzman

    April 11, 2022
    2022 Color
    #WordPrompt, color choices, Color week, Green, watercolor practice
  • Textile Tales to Know

    Textile Tales to Know

    This week I want to share some intriguing sites that explore the history of textiles, [accented by my doodling]. Cloth, textiles, yarn, trims, ribbons and their makers are all included in the fascinating stories of textile tales told by two very talented and enthusiastic textile researchers: Rebecca Devaney and Jo Andrews.

    MSRitzman

    April 3, 2022
    2022 Color
    Haptic and Hue, Jo Andrews, Rebecca Devaney, Tales of Textiles in Paris
  • Negative Painting

    Negative Painting

    For the past few weeks my ‘Fast & Loose’ classes with Cynthia Armstrong have focused on the technique of negative painting – one of the ways to create light and color in a watercolor sketch. There are 2 important concepts to have an understanding of to accomplish negative painting. Wet into Wet: Painting on a […]

    MSRitzman

    March 30, 2022
    2022 Color
    Brenda Swenson, color choices, Color week, Cynthia Armstrong, Glazing, Negative painting, watercolor practice, Wet on wet
  • Paint and Paper

    Paint and Paper

    The difficulty in watercolor painting is almost entirely in how to anticipate and leverage the behavior of water, but paint and paper are important factors in getting great results. To gather more skills in using water I recently started a class, ‘Fast and Loose Watercolor” with Cynthia Armstrong. Her focus for the class is teaching […]

    MSRitzman

    March 22, 2022
    2022 Color
    color choices, Color week, Cynthia Armstrong, Goldilocks moment, Learn loose watercolor, watercolor practice
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