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May Watercolor Challenge Day 9
Today during our Zoom with June I started sketching out my strawberry prompt idea. I didn’t have time to get to adding the color when I logged off, as my friend arrived to pick me up. We visited the gravesite… Continue reading
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Poppies Squared
I decided I like how vibrant the Inktense sticks get on the canvas when I draw with them dray then activate with water at the end. It’s fun too. The movement of the water and how its blends is very… Continue reading
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327 – Clowning around
This morning I started off the Zoom with June by refreshing myself on folding origami cranes, in preparation for helping at the paper crane making table The War Memorial’s Tree Lighting Event. I made several cranes this morning, and feel… Continue reading
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Something different today
Today’s painting developed as I painted. I was originally going to paint a yellow rectangle, but decided to start with a circle. A yellow circle got me thinking sun so I started adding orange and reds around the top half… Continue reading
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Name paintings
Today I experimented with an idea I had to make little watercolor paintings using people’s first names. As two of my kids were home with me today, I used their names for my trial run. I started with Leif, a… Continue reading
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Under a Red Sun
Today I had a question about the type of ink I used in my last painting and it got me thinking whether a ol’ ball point pen would work under watercolor. I happened to have my red editing pen handy… Continue reading
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Pretty peonies
Over the last few days I’ve been admiring and taking pictures of my mom’s neighbor’s gardens. She has such a beautiful garden and I often see her caring for it when I’m visiting my mom. She has some big flooffy… Continue reading
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Poppy flowers.
I was going through some of my piles of pottery and art today and came across my bin of ceramic poppy flowers. I made a whole bunch of them a couple years ago and made some into pins and others… Continue reading
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A cardinal visitor
I put bird seed out for the birds in front of my house. My cat loves to sit in the window and stare at the birds who visit our feeder. His tail twitching with excitement, I imagine he is daydreaming… Continue reading
366 Days of Art 