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Process: Mixing Chinese White Paints
“As an acrylic artist I almost never used white except under other colors to pop them. But as a water-colorist I have reached for white a few times, and I am using an old Sakura Chinese white right now until … Continue reading
Posted in color, creativity, painting, process, watercolor
Tagged Chinese white, mixing, palette, play, watercolor
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Process: Mixing Quinacridone + Caput Mortem Paints
Building from Process: Mixing Hematite Paints, I moved into mixing two colors into each of my paints: Caput Mortem and Quinacridone Gold. The latter has been a favorite of mine for 20 years. Caput Mortem has also been known as … Continue reading
Posted in color, painting, process, watercolor
Tagged caput mortem, cote de azure, mixing paint, palette, quinacridone gold
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Process: Mixing Hematite Paints
New color paints are the yummiest, and my new clean watercolors all moist from a spray call to me. After buying mostly Golden Acrylics for 15 years (and they have watercolors coming out which I am dying to try), I … Continue reading
Posted in color, painting, process, watercolor
Tagged Daniel Smith watercolors, experiment, Genuine Hematite, Golden Acrylic Paints, hematite, mixing, Primatek, watercolor
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Z is for Zinnwaldite: A-to-Z Challenge
Okay, when I heard about this color I was shocked to find the mineral, above, doesn’t look like the color it supposedly produces, right. How is it possible that this gorgeous green grey mica-looking mineral turns into this nothing-to-write-home about … Continue reading
Y is for Yellow: A-to-Z Challenge
Gee, can’t I just use the yellow from yesterday’s post? No? Okay, timed stream of consciousness writing begins . . . When I was twelve my favorite color was pure lemon yellow. I was a tanned beach girl so I … Continue reading
X is for Xanthophyll Yellow: A-to-Z Challenge
Xanthophyll is the yellow pigments that brings many of the images on this page together: it is responsible for the egg-yolk yellow color in leaf pigments. Their structure is similar to carotenes, as in beta-carotenes, found in carrots, and responsible … Continue reading
Process: Sunday Palms!
Working on mastering this medium enough that I can move away from realism and make art that moves me. Today I finally just moved away — playing with palm trees and deep color and texture. I experimented with watercolor graphite, … Continue reading
Posted in color, creativity, graphite, journal, painting, sketchbook, watercolor
Tagged palm
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Journal: Trip to Southern Oregon
We have a guy that is our beloved pal, and he is getting old. He is driving us nuts, because he somehow thinks that he has earned the right to boss us, and have everything the way he wants it. … Continue reading
Posted in art, color, journal, memory, sketchbook, watercolor
Tagged blood moon, Cat, chinkapin, dogwood, grape hyacynth, green, hawthorn, Oregon Caves NM
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U is for Ultramarine: A-to-Z Challenge
Ultramarine blue is one of those amazing electric colors that you want to fall into. I first fell in love with the crayola color, then Golden Acrylic’s Ultramarine Blue Deep Hue. It was my go-to blue! Ultramarine blue was originally … Continue reading
Posted in acrylic, color, oil paint, watercolor
Tagged Daniel Smith watercolors, Gamblin, Golden Acrylic Paints, lapis, Primatek, ultramarine blue
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Process: Tea, Milk, Honey — Our Garden Buddha
If you are following me, you know I am struggling to learn watercolors after years of entrenched acrylic painting. I am following a few folks, and definitely studying the Urban Sketchers. Yesterday I discovered Marc Taro Holmes blogs and he … Continue reading
Posted in color, drawing, painting, process, watercolor
Tagged buddha, hoi toi, Marc Taro Holmes, painting, process, tea milk honey, watercolor
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Q is for Quinacridone: A-to-Z Challenge
“You’ll not see nothing like the mighty ‘Quins’!” I hear Bob Dylan’s tune as I gush about the family of paint colors called quinacridone (kwin awk’ ri doan). I first encountered them in Golden Acrylics. They became a staple in … Continue reading
M is for Mistakes: A-to-Z Challenge
It’s a cautionary tale. I tend to jump right in and not think about chemistry (which I was pretty good at) when it comes to paints and shellac and all kinds of wet colorful things. When I was first painting … Continue reading
Posted in acrylic, color, creativity, painting, process
Tagged Golden Acrylic Paints, mermaids, mistake, mixology, retreat, shimmer
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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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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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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
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