Category Archives: painting

Inktober, 20 Diwali, Festival of Lights

Posted on October 20, 2017 by D. Katie Powell

Happy Diwali, of course done the eve of not today! Auspiciously, I filled the last available page in my journal on Diwali Eve with this prayer for Diwali; I opened my next journal the next morning. We light the candles, … Continue reading →

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Inktober, 7 Palm Window

Posted on October 7, 2017 by D. Katie Powell

I don’t know where I caught the snippet of a poem which was a song not a poem but it has rolled around in my head for weeks, these few lines: “Now that I’ve worn out I’ve worn out the … Continue reading →

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Tools: Viviva Colorsheets and Hello Inktober

Posted on October 1, 2017 by D. Katie Powell

Viviva is a new watercolor “sheet” out of India. I bought them through their Indiegogo campaign. Watercolor sheets are meant to travel with a waterbrush, so that you simply touch the wet brush to the colored paper and the color … Continue reading →

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Wendell Berry Palm

Posted on September 29, 2017 by D. Katie Powell

Obsessed with palms in my sketchbook these days; I’ve always doodled them but I am working on bamboo furniture, which is palm-ish and so, more palms. This quote caught me, from where I don’t know, and dashed it on a … Continue reading →

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When Palms are Bad

Posted on September 28, 2017 by D. Katie Powell

This one is simply overworked.  It doesn’t have the feeling of air coming through the palm leaves.  I am okay with the ocean, flowers, etc. This should have been beautiful… Randy Boyd’s photo was gorgeous! I tried it again….. In … Continue reading →

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Tools: Watercolors, 8, Primateks

Posted on September 24, 2017 by D. Katie Powell

When I painted with acrylics (above) I was in love with the textural qualities of Golden Acrylics: ground hematite, sand, metallics.  I mixed and pushed them to create textural patterns on both huge canvases and small paper sketches.  It was … Continue reading →

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Color is Not Enough

Posted on September 21, 2017 by D. Katie Powell

Sometimes I start with color… I think color will be enough, because I am mad for color… But color is never enough. There is the line, and it has a lot to say. Because you can’t read my handwriting: Playing … Continue reading →

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Hahnemühle Post Cards, NOT, 12, Prickley Pear

Posted on September 20, 2017 by D. Katie Powell

It was an honest mistake. I paint on Hahnemühle Post Card so often I just assumed that I’d grabbed one in the middle-of-the-night… so sad after finishing to send off that it wasn’t a postcard! I wondered why the watercolor … Continue reading →

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Fire, Wind, Rain: and Photography Exposures

Posted on September 18, 2017 by D. Katie Powell

I’ve been upset about the first, then they were topped by worry for friends in Texas and Florida…  Painting images loosely from photos that stayed in my mind helped. In these, more than most, I noticed the exposure (flash or … Continue reading →

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Tools: Da Vinci Watercolors

Posted on September 10, 2017 by D. Katie Powell

I was able to buy a couple of Da Vinci watercolors half-off with free shipping. *i wanted to see if i liked them… nooo, not quite truthful… i am a watercolor tube addict and could not stop myself… i am … Continue reading →

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Alizarin Gladioli

Posted on September 9, 2017 by D. Katie Powell

Middle-of-the-night, deep inky-maroon gladioli challenged me! The Da Vinci Alizarin Crimson is semi-transparent, but the secondary top color had to be quite opaque, and i don’t like nor work well with opaque paints. I painted them in my Nostalgie journal, … Continue reading →

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Peach Glads

Posted on September 8, 2017 by D. Katie Powell

Can you spot the mistake? (I corrected it by now….) Middle-of-the-night, I took on the peach gladioli Mitchell gave me earlier in the week. I tried one of the new DaVinci watercolors, Rose Dore, a quinacridone paint. Such a pretty … Continue reading →

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Fire

Posted on September 6, 2017 by D. Katie Powell

It is a pitiful drawing, altogether too cheery, but it was the middle-of-the-night and I had only my watercolor-filled pens. I was horrified about what I’d read in the Oregonian. *yeah i know i should not be reading puter in … Continue reading →

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Hahnemühle Post Cards, 10, Palms

Posted on September 1, 2017 by D. Katie Powell

A lot to want to ESCAPE from this last couple weeks… Sad angry politics, riots, and my MAC is a lemon and screwed with my reports. So I go to my happy spot… doodling Palm Trees and Daisies and Stars … Continue reading →

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A Change in Posting

Posted on August 28, 2017 by D. Katie Powell

As I move along for the next couple of months my posting habits will change: I have a PAINTING project in our business that is in oil paint. The DAR is commissioning a formal reproduction of the Washington State Flag. … Continue reading →

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Hahnemühle Post Cards, 11, Stuff for Friends

Posted on August 26, 2017 by D. Katie Powell

When I wake in the middle of the night I can’t sleep I need something to do… I reach for a Hahnemühle Post Card and a stack of images I keep by the bed… Friends prompt middle-of-the-night postcards… silly comments … Continue reading →

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Hahnemühle Post Cards, 9, FORGOT

Posted on August 23, 2017 by D. Katie Powell

“For surely you are never forgot!” I’ve been going a bit crazy trying to find the rest of this poem about forget-me-nots. Literally got me out of bed going through books at 2am searching for likely places I’d have it…  … Continue reading →

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Ganesha New Moon Eclipse

Posted on August 21, 2017 by D. Katie Powell

Ganesha is calling again. ☾ Pentalic Nature Sketch Journal, with a Pentalic HB woodless pencil, Platinum Carbon Pen with Platinum Carbon ink waterproof cartridges, Sennelier, Holbein, and DS Primatek watercolors, and Daniel Smith Watercolors    ©D. Katie Powell. My images/blog … Continue reading →

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