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Monthly Archives: April 2014
L is for Lines: A-to-Z-Challenge
Not the lines a guy gives you at a bar. Not the ones in the script you read for when you thought you wanted to be a movie star. Doodles are lines. Cartoons are linear. Architects communicate with line drawings. … Continue reading
In the Garden: Memory
(I can see the difference in my second nasturtium, much looser. . . and I like this background.) I was feeling blue. I was also so disappointed because Daniel Smith did not get my paints to me for our time … Continue reading
Posted in art, color, drawing, journal, memory, painting, watercolor
Tagged art journal, frogs, garden, husband, journal, nasturtiums
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K is for Kyanite: A-to-Z Challenge
Kyanite is on my must-have list; it is from the line of raw looking gemstone watercolors from Daniel Smith. It is a naturally sparkling not-quite lavender blue grey, yummy, and it is winging its way to me to day! Soon … Continue reading
Posted in color, watercolor
Tagged blue, Daniel Smith watercolors, jewelry, kyanite, lavendar, Primatek, trishnajewelry
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J is for Art Journal: A-to-Z Challenge
I had to make a change. Running and working in our business means I don’t have the time to set up for painting at an easel and painting with acrylics, which in my case means canvases and 4 oz tubs … Continue reading
Posted in art, creativity, drawing, journal, painting, sketchbook, watercolor
Tagged art journal, journal
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I is for Indanthrone: A-to-Z Challenge
I love new paint. Daniel Smith’s Indanthrone Blue is a new color to my palette. In past, I have loved Prussian, or Indigo, or Cobalt blue — But this may make me move away from The first two. It has … Continue reading
Posted in color, watercolor
Tagged anthraquinone blue, Daniel Smith watercolors, indanthrone blue
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H is for Hematite: A-to-Z Challenge
I had long used Golden Acrylic’s Micaceous Iron Oxide, part of their Iridescent colors, straight out of the tub or in glazes, shown above. It is this delicious heavy shimmering charcoal in a pot. In Horse with Red Ball, above, … Continue reading
Posted in acrylic, color, painting, watercolor
Tagged Daniel Smith watercolors, Golden Acrylic Paints, hematite, horse, Micaceous Iron Oxide, Primatek, red ball
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G is for Granulating: A-to-Z Challenge
I had no idea what granulating paint was until I began using watercolors. And you have to know or you get wonky things happening that you didn’t want, like the funny paint around Frank’s nose, below. Notice how most of … Continue reading
Posted in acrylic, color, oil paint, painting, watercolor
Tagged granulating, ground paints
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F is for Favorite Artists: A-to-Z Challenge
A friend (and favorite artist) published a blog post the other day relating how her style evolved. It has a lot to do with artists who influenced her. I know several of my favorite artists influenced my tendency to one … Continue reading
Posted in art, creativity, painting, process, series
Tagged David Hockney, Marc Chagall, Marc Rothko, Monet, repetition, repetitve
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Sunday is Shameless Plug Day
I am working on becoming a full-time artist, not a starving artist and not an artist that has another job, even if I am my own boss. All I wanna do is paint *sigh* don’t we all? I expect you … Continue reading
Posted in cards, prints
Tagged art cards, buy stuff, cards, donate, post cards, starving artist
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E is for Environmentally Friendly: A-to-Z Challenge
I’m talking toxicity versus environmentally friendly and how to read labels. Above are three labels: Golden’s “AP Nontoxic”, Gamblin’s information label stated clearly, and an older tube of Cotman Cadmiun Red that shows a Health Label requiring no labeling (again, … Continue reading
D is for Drawing Pens: A-to-Z Challenge
My favorite drawing pens are Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pens, shown right as the top three pens with their caps off. I love them because they are wonderfully waterproofed India ink, and work best of all the pens on shellacked … Continue reading
Posted in art, creativity, drawing, journal, painting, process, shellac, sketchbook, watercolor
Tagged Cocoiro pens, drawing pens, painting with pens, Pitt pens, Tombow pens
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C is for Color: A to Z Challenge
Omigoddess I love color. I became a painter for many reasons but chief among them is the use of all that delicious glistening wet color. My current favorites, and I do have favorites in pure colors, are ALL the quinacridones, … Continue reading
B is for Brush Pens! A-to-A Challenge
I am just learning to use brush pens, as I move to smaller formats and water colors to work my artistic ways. Brush pens are these super devices where the water is carried in tube which attaches to the watercolor … Continue reading
Posted in art, creativity, journal, painting, process, sketchbook, watercolor
Tagged brush pens, Neocolor II, watercolor pencils
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A is fo Asphaltum, A-to-Z Challenge
I discovered asphaltum when I was conserving/restoring two dozen pieces of Mason Monterey furniture for the National Park Service. Being a painter who up until that time primarily used acrylics, I had never heard of it before. Asphaltum (also called … Continue reading
Posted in art, oil paint, painting
Tagged asphaltum, bitumen, conservation, MPF Conservation, oil paint, paint
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D.Katie Powell Art 