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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…
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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…
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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.
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Garden Color Class
Another online class with Shari Blaukopf to focus on color and green tones in the garden. Working from a photo from Shari… but I have visited this little school house at ‘Christiansen Nursery Skagit Valley WA’ Other work from the week: