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Thursday, July 31, 2008
I'll post when I can.... Looking forward to seeing friends along the way!!!
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
I'm throwing in a little watercolor review here, while I'm off in Maine...In the window of the pigment store where I work part-time
First to match the pigments on my palette,which by the way, is an old enamel kitchen tray found on Ebay...
And then to match the colors swatches on a test sheet of paper. The next step is to make a painting...
My watercolor teacher, David Dewey, used to say, the painting is first of all, set up on your palette.
Get your colors down there first.
I used to take a ton of pictures of his palette mixings...
Then put it down on the paper.
I'd love to select a few of these bottles and make a painting from just those colors...what's known as doing a "limited palette" painting.
Another Dewey trick was to use your dirty water to put the washes down on the paper.It's easier to see where the water is on the white paper if there are bits of pigment in the wash.
For most watercolor painters painting with clean water is like religion!
Here's a watercolor palette I'd love to have.A client of Wendy Brandes Jewelry designed this for herself using a poison ring bezel!
Claus Oldenburg of the Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture, said
he does most of his idea sketching at the dinner table...
Wouldn't this palette ring be a tremendous help painting in MAINE?
Monday, July 28, 2008
Hi Everyone!
Sunday, July 27, 2008
I'm running off to a refresher workshop in Maine with my watercolor teacher, David Dewey. Natch Yellow Bird gets to come along in case there are any photo opps. Here's re-cap of an older post
I'm not really ready for Fall or back-to-school school openings...
Up to David Dewey's watercolor workshop in Maine. I've been 4 or 5 times.
I thought at first, that since I'm focused on still life I didn't need to look or think about landscapes again.Too late I woke up and realized of course, a still life IS a landscape! A bunch of shapes sitting on a flatish surface = a landscape.
Most workshop mornings begin with THE DEMO by the instructor.You crowd round to see the magic performed in the relentlessly hot sun.
Then you go off for the day and try to perform a little magic yourself...
The bay out my motel window in '01...
Thomaston's boat yard in '05
At the end of each workshop day comes the group crit.You learn heaps here.
I could use an end o' day group crit in my New York studio...
The real end of a Maine day ends with a Lobster.If you haven't had a lobster roll for lunch that is...
Saturday, July 26, 2008
This Wednesday, we had quite a few more people at the picnic.. Unfortunately for me though, I went to the nearest McDo to use the restrooms with some others and we were gone for a good 45 minutes and by the time we got back it was almost time to leave!! All of the public restrooms in the area seem to be looked up by the time we arrive so that's why we have to walk to McDo... It was fun, though, and thank you all for coming!! Hope we will have some more in mid August!
Made these for Arlene's b-day last Sat. (chez Dawn et Tom). Arelene's b-day is actually this Monday! Joyeux Anniversaire Arlene!!!
I think the left foot, because I applied the henna on thicker... looks a bit better and darker... Maybe it just looks better 'cuz it's darker... I think it's orange henna, not red henna. I like red henna better.
but I tried!
It's NOT too easy applying it on your own feet... I'm not very talented, as you can see!
If you have a chance, please check out the beautiful and very colourful cupcakes chez Crumbs and Doilies... I think this may be my very favourite cupcakery- because they offer cupcakes in such a wide variety of colours and decorations...
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