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My Encore Excursions

  • Green Heron

    Green Heron

    [of green] “The beholder has neither the wish nor the power to imagine a state beyond it.” Goethe in Theory of Colours

    MSRitzman

    March 1, 2022
    2022 Color
    color choices, Color week, Green heron, Ian de Hoog, watercolor practice, Winslowartcenter.com
  • Green Birds

    Green Birds

    I am back in a Winslow Art Center online class – Birds! Delving Deeper with Ian de Hoog. We are focusing on green birds and mixing beautiful and illusive green hues. Our green bird this week is the Violet-Green Swallow – a small sleek bird with long pointed wings and slightly forked tails. Length 4.7 […]

    MSRitzman

    February 21, 2022
    2022 Color
    All about birds, color choices, Color week, Ian de Hoog, Violet green swallow, watercolor birds, watercolor practice, Winslowartcenter.com
  • Red Underpinnings

    Red Underpinnings

    Just in time for Valentines I discovered The Underpinnings Museum. Color this week had to be red and the ‘red lingerie’ exhibit at the museum fit the bill. The exhibit was mentioned on a recent episode of the podcast DRESSED. Today I made a visit to the digital exhibit on the underpinnings museum website. Incediary: […]

    MSRitzman

    February 13, 2022
    2022 Color
    color choices, Color week, Dressed podcast, Red Lingerie, The Underpinnings Museum, Valentines red
  • Colors of Gold

    Colors of Gold

    A curiosity about the composition of ‘rose gold’ jewelry took me on a journey of discovery around the colors of gold. yellow gold, white gold, rose gold This handy chart [from Wikipedia] says it all, the % alloy alters the gold tone My color challenge this week was to find the watercolors to reproduce the […]

    MSRitzman

    February 12, 2022
    2022 Color
    color choices, color of gold, Color week
  • Royal Color

    Royal Color

    I was referred by a reader to a colorful book, Our Rainbow Queen by Sali Hughes. I found a copy on Abe books to add to my color library. Sali Hughes is quoted as saying “The queen tends to wear one color because she feels that if people are queuing for many hours just to […]

    MSRitzman

    February 1, 2022
    2022 Color
    color choices, Color week, Daily sketch, our rainbow queen, pthalo blue, queen Elizabeth II
  • 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
  • What Color is Grandpa Green

    When a 19 year old tells you his truck color is ‘Grandpa Green’ what comes into my 60 something mind is dusty and slow! This is Color Week 50 and we are about to discover the color dubbed ‘Grandpa Green’. The process of coming up with color names can be surprisingly rigorous, involving color specialists, […]

    MSRitzman

    December 27, 2021
    Sketching
    Automotive colors, color choices, Color name, Color week
  • Winter Color Icon

    Cardinals do not migrate so you can spot them year-round. However, some find it easier to spot them in winter because of their color. Birdwatchingbuzz.com Red is an iconic color of Christmas and the Great Northern Cardinal is an iconic winter bird in many areas of the United States making this red bird the subject […]

    MSRitzman

    December 16, 2021
    Sketching
    Cadmium Scarlet, Christmas, color choices, Color week, Great Northern Cardinal, watercolor birds, Winter bird
  • Color Influence

    Recently I was chatting with a friend about this blog, posting every week about color. Here we are at Color Week 47. She was remembering that I had given her color cards and a book to help her monitor her moods… WHAT? That was probably 25 years ago, and she was in a stressful position […]

    MSRitzman

    December 5, 2021
    Sketching
    birth month color, color choices, color expert, Color week, colorstrology
  • Thanksgiving Colors

    Color Week 46 welcomes Thanksgiving. This past week I started an online class with Shari Blaukopf – Sketching Markets. As I have mentioned previously Shari has a way with color, making this class assigment a perfect homage to the colors on the Thanksgiving table. Enjoy the colors of your Thanksgiving celebration. Hansa Yellow. Sap Green. […]

    MSRitzman

    November 24, 2021
    Sketching
    color choices, Color week, Shari Blaukopf, Thanksgivong, watercolor practice
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