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