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The Colors of Plum Jam
Color week 33 features the color mixes for ‘Plum Jam’. It is jam making season and here we have 3 jams with distinct colors along with distinct [and delicious] flavors. Mixing the colors included a base jam tone and building from that base, much like making the jam itself. The grid comes from my wonderful…
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End of Season Golds
Color Week 32 captures the colors of the end-of-season seed pods. The early flowering alliums, the tall grass and drying seed pods are giving us signs that the flowering season is ending in the Pacific Northwest. Yellow Ochre. Quinacrodone Deep Gold. Raw Umber. Naples Yellow. watercolor choices
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Color Advice
Recently I have been following Annie Sloan to learn more about her color background and training. Sloan uses bold color on home furnishing in ways that do not seem out of place. Recently a story she posted caused me to go out and purchase 2 new chalk paint colors … I never imagined I would…
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Drawn To Class
To keep up with daily sketching means that ‘every day’ I need to put something on the page. Some sketches take a couple minutes, a ‘sketchbook’ entry typically takes 45-50 minutes and a botanical drawing can take many hours. So I’m always looking for new ways to fill the page of my ‘daily sketchbook’. When…
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