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  • Adding Color Pencil to the Sketchbook

    Adding Color Pencil to the Sketchbook

    This month I am taking a dive into color pencils. I recently started a class with Cynthia Armstrong where we are learning the techniques of color pencil and the use of color pencil on various types of paper. The art color pencil was invented in 1924 by Faber Castell and Caren d’Ache. It is known…

    MSRitzman

    March 13, 2023
    2023 Making Days
    color choices, color pencil practice, Cynthia Armstrong, faber castell polychromos, Winslowartcenter.com
  • Getting Started

    Getting Started

    When starting the watercolor sketch for this post it was to explore the three watercolors that made it onto my palette when I first started watercolor. The plant I chose to sketch is – Akebia quinata or 5-Leaf Vine. Synchronicity set in … it was 5 years ago that I took my first ‘encore’ /…

    MSRitzman

    July 8, 2022
    2022 Color
    color choices, Color week, Cynthia Armstrong, Ian de Hoog, jane barton, Jean Mackay, kathleen Mckeenan, lisa snow lady, Shari Blaukopf, watercolor practice, Winslowartcenter.com
  • 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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