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My Encore Excursions

  • Around The Table

    Around The Table

    The Art of Painting Food is a class I recently completed with Jane Barton.  Barton took us through sketchbook exercises to examine our food likes/dislikes, a favorite memory of food and we took a dive into food archeology. Great class with fellow food sketchers!

    MSRitzman

    June 8, 2022
    2022 Color
    color choices, foodie art, jane barton, Winslowartcenter.com
  • Something Different

    Something Different

    Introducing a new way to look at getting an artistic idea on to the page is my message this week. My preference is watercolor and pen but occasionally I step boldly into trying new techniques and media to see what happens and what I can learn [and remember]. Two classes have helped me try Something […]

    MSRitzman

    June 1, 2022
    2022 Color
    foodie art, jane barton, mark making, tara will, torn paper, Winslowartcenter.com
  • 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
  • Lessons Learned

    Lessons Learned

    After a week of staying at a stunning castle in Italy with the camaraderie of a dozen like minded watercolor sketchers now is a good time to reflect on lessons learned… and to imprint those lessons into my daily sketch routine. This was a Winslow Arts Center workshop; Nature Sketching in Italy with Jean Mackay. […]

    MSRitzman

    May 15, 2022
    2022 Color
    castello di petroia, color, color choices, color combination, Color value, Jean Mackay, watercolor values, 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Mixed Media Days

    To explore color in a different way I joined a mixed media class by Lucie Duclos. Lucie teaches virtual classes thru Winslow Art Center. She is an artist with a strong sense of design and she reuses or finds a use for every item you have collected or placed in your craft room ‘to use […]

    MSRitzman

    November 8, 2021
    Sketching
    color choices, Color week, Duclosdesign.com, Lucie Duclos, Mixed media, Winslowartcenter.com

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