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My Encore Excursions

  • WordPrompt May STRONG

    WordPrompt May STRONG

    This month ‘Strong’ is the WordPress monthly prompt and an opportunity for me to share how sketching makes ‘strong memories’. 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’. So here is my May […]

    MSRitzman

    May 23, 2022
    Education, Sketching, Travel & Tours
    #WordPrompt, Strong, watercolor practice, wordpress
  • Lettering Lesson

    Lettering Lesson

    Adding words to a sketch is a good practice to understand so Jean Mackay provided us with a few tips for hand-lettering during the Nature Sketching workshop in Italy. I am not much for adding phrases into my work but some simple steps for making lettering look polished were welcome. We spent about 20 minutes […]

    MSRitzman

    May 22, 2022
    2022 Color
    color choices, hand-lettering, Jean Mackay, jeanmackayart.com, lettering basics, watercolor practice, Winslowartcenter.com
  • 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
  • Color of Food

    Recently I heard Sanjay Gupta MD talking about his book Keep Sharp Build a Better Brain at Any Age so I put a copy in my audible library and started to listen this week. Gupta narrates his book and in Chapter 7 ‘Food for Thought’ he mentions ‘color’ … the color of food. His statement […]

    MSRitzman

    January 27, 2022
    2022 Color
    Brain health, Color week, Fresh food color, Sanjay Gupta MD, watercolor practice
  • 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
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