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My Encore Excursions

  • Solstice

    Solstice

    On this day, the Sun rises farthest left on the horizon, and sets at its rightmost possible spot. Sunlight strikes places in your home that get illuminated at no other time Almanac.com The solstice on Tuesday, June 21, 2022 happens at the same instance for all of us, everywhere on Earth. In my time zone that is […]

    MSRitzman

    June 20, 2022
    2022 Color
    color choices, color green, Color week, color yellow, solstice, stonehedge, sun, watercolor practice
  • Italian Earth Colors

    Italian Earth Colors

    Raw Sienna. Burnt Sienna. These earth colors are associated with the Italian landscape and essential for a palette used for nature sketching in Italy – our color topic today. Jean Mackay is leading a Winslow Art Center workshop in Italy where I hope to up my skills in composition and page refinement while sketching outdoors.

    MSRitzman

    April 26, 2022
    2022 Color, Travel & Tours
    color choices, Color week, Italian colors, Jean Mackay, watercolor practice, Winslowartcenter.com
  • Fresh vs Dried

    Fresh vs Dried

    As I am preparing to go off on a nature sketching excursion next month now is a good time to explore the merits of fresh vs dried watercolor on the palette. Freshly squeezed paint on a palette is nice for painting in the studio. Paint from the tube squeezed into a pan and dried is […]

    MSRitzman

    April 18, 2022
    2022 Color
    color choices, Color week, Shari Blaukopf, watercolor practice, Winslowartcenter.com
  • 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
  • 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
  • Vacation Mirage

    Vacation Mirage

    Palm trees and a noisy bird are the subjects of our colorful vacation mirage.

    MSRitzman

    March 6, 2022
    2022 Color
    color choices, Color week, Green jay, Ian de Hoog, Palm trees, Shari Blaukopf, Vacation watercolor sketch, watercolor birds, watercolor practice
  • 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
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