USk: Cherry Blossoms in Tom McCall Park

Posted on April 7, 2019 by D. Katie Powell

Many parts of Portland smells sweeter, floral right now.
Puffy trees line the parks and streets, looking like bridesmaids.
They are so delicate…

This year the rains came later and that is good…
blossoms stayed put for days!
I had a chance to sketch Tom McCall (I think that is the name) Park.

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Platinum Carbon Pen with Platinum Carbon ink waterproof cartridges,
DS Primatek watercolors, and Daniel Smith Watercolors.

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SoCS: Fab Four

Posted on April 5, 2019 by D. Katie Powell

I journal and do morning stream of consciousness exercises, and
I’m again participating in Linda Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday.
I write to a timer, 15-20 minutes, no editing except spelling, and of course I add my art!
You can do it too!
The Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “FAB.” Write about the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the word “yawn.”

Fab. Four.

Is there anything else?
One of my two first albums
the other was Simon and Garfunkel….

This was the song.
Sent my not-quite-middle school girl head swooning.

Still love it today.

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“I think not….”
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Bright Ideas: Buddha Om Elephant

Posted on April 5, 2019 by D. Katie Powell

Why do I persist in trying to add water to this paper?

I started Trishna Jewelry because I could not find the jewelry I wanted…
Not too ethnic, not to refined. When I fell in love with antique whitehearts I began.
The business did so-so — seems most people wanted ethnic and
I closed it a couple of years ago. But I still have my own lovely jewelry!

This colored paper is impossible to photograph… I’ve tried everything to get consistency!

Vintage Japanese glass Buddhas wrapped in sterling…
Karen Tribe oms and stamped beads, on an unusual soft orange whiteheart.

Sterling Shakyamuni to match with Balinese stamped om beads.
I wore my own earrings until I fell in love with Poppy Lane’s earrings, and we traded!
I LOVE her earrings! (Now I need to draw them!)

As I draw my jewelry, I will add it so I can see those pages together.

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Bright Ideas multi-color journal,
Lamy Joy with De Atramentis Document Black ink,
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More Inks, Robert Oster and Birmingham

Posted on April 4, 2019 by D. Katie Powell

A new order swabbed in my journal.
My tax rewards coincided with several sales and so I went a little nuts!
Sales on ink tempt me much more than a few dollars off a pen. Free shipping on inks,
which tend to cost more than pens to ship, makes me even happier.

That beautiful pen is Fountain Pen Revolution Himalayan
with an ultra flex nib… A beauty.

These were being discontinued from a pen/ink site, extreme sale!
Robert Oster discontinued!!?! Good for me.
Unfortunately most of what was left were things I had
but these few happily went home with me!
Charcoal and Graphite are already in rotation!
What is not to love about Robert Oster ink?
Gorgeous, complex and and well-behaved.
Never feathers on less expensive papers, and depth of colors is amazing.

I also ordered these amazing Birmingham ink colors!
I waited for Birmingham to get Tarnished Nickel ink in for the longest time.
It did not disappoint, and I immediately filled a pen!

I need time to sketch!

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Me… why I journal!

Hahnemühle Nostalgie Sketchbook,
FPR Himalayan with Birmingham Tarnished Nickel ink,
FPR Muft with Robert Oster Graphite ink.

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Crescent Moon

Posted on April 3, 2019 by D. Katie Powell

Heading into the Dark of the Moon, I saw the crescent tonight.

I love the inks overlapping.

Ink painting, Robert Oster (Bronze, Thunderstorm, and Orange)
and Birmingham but not sure which.

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Hahnemühle Nostalgie Sketchbook, Robert Oster and Birmingham inks.

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Ganesha Heart

Posted on April 2, 2019 by D. Katie Powell

When sick, I started a day off with watercolors.
Gads I am rusty… Groans…
I’ve been painting with inks!
This is a mixture of ink and watercolor, an experiment,
actually mixing them together and it is a failed experiment… oddly brown skin!
And his head is too tiny for his body!
I believe in posting the failed pieces so you can see what I’m not happy with too.

Splashing splatter on this one made it look like Holi!

Things got better as the day wore on.

This life-sized batik was bought from a street vendor for Mitchell…
Not too long back he strung heart lights around him and I love it.
Makes me happy every time I see it!

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Me… why I journal!

Hahnemühle Nostalgie Sketchbook,
Diplomat Aero with Robert Oster Fire Engine Red ink,
Pilot Metropolitan with De Atramentis Tobacco ink,
Pilot Metropolitan with Super5 Frankfurt ink,
Platinum Carbon Pen with Platinum Carbon ink waterproof cartridges,
Sennelier, Holbein, MGraham, DS Primatek and Daniel Smith watercolors.

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SoCS: Dough

Posted on March 30, 2019 by D. Katie Powell

I journal and do morning stream of consciousness exercises, and
I’m again participating in Linda Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday.
I write to a timer, 15-20 minutes, no editing except spelling, and of course I add my art!
You can do it too!
The Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “dough/d’oh.”

Timely… We are sick!
Small business peeps don’t have time for sick because if we don’t work
we don’t make dough… no dough is baaaaad… No sick leave!
Must talk to my employer (me) and her partner (my sick husband) about their policies.

Back to bed… I mean really, I am happy I don’t have the very very bad flu
but this coldish thang is driving us nuts. It just won’t leave.

Best I can do today. D’oh!

Drawing is of a velvet belt of my mom’s.

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VSW: Tasmanian Critters

Posted on March 30, 2019 by D. Katie Powell

The Tasmanian walk by Debi Taylor this month was glorious,
and surprisingly, the critter caught my eye to sketch.
I began with an Echidna , or Spiny Any Eater.
Reminded me of our porcupines!

I almost liked him better just before the darker topcoats.

Tasmanian Devil… never seen a real one,
and this baby does not compare to the cartoon characters.

Love this little guy.

Kangaroo… necks too short, tails too long.
I know he is a ROO but when you grow up drawing bunnies!?
So he is a squatting roo….

I put the critters on one page, and backed them with a
lovely flowering tree that looks so much like eucalyptus.
Loved this walk!

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Hahnemühle Watercolour Book, Pentalic HB woodless pencil,
Noodler’s Lexington Grey Ink in Pentel Aquash waterbrushes,
Pilot Metropolitan with Super5 Frankfurt ink,
Da Vinci, Holbein, MGraham, DS Primatek watercolors, and Daniel Smith Watercolors.

NELIPOT IFJM

I started a Facebook group page (you must join to view) to allow everyone to share their virtual sketches, and also where we will, from time to time, take virtual sketch walks together. Come join us On Facebook if you are inclined!
If you want to know more about what a virtual sketchwalk is review my first post.
There are a few more notes/pointers on our first walk through Laguna Beach, California.

NELIPOT IFJM

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Tax Reward, Robert Oster Inks

Posted on March 29, 2019 by D. Katie Powell

On the Full Moon I was going to reward myself with a new pen
from Fountain Pen Revolution, to be delivered after I finished taxes,
but found Robert Oster inks on sale!
I want to get to my 500 points on Vanness for the 5% discount too…
I love the free shipping at $$ point and now loyalty points.
I am powerless in the face RO inks, especially on sale.

Lake of Fire and River of Fire are samples… So many people love them and I had never tried them.
They have great sheen — a firey red edge that is lost on Nostalgie paper —
but I doubt I will buy them
because I love others of his MORE,
and would choose Fire and Ice
over Lake of Fire.

BUT, I fell in love with another blue from Robert, and that is Blue Water Ice. How did I miss this? Amazing gorgeous blue!

I am on a purple kick,
like the Purple Jazz I sketch with above.

Maybe it is because they show up in so many
of the greys I am playing with…
A review of grey inks is coming soon.

Sidney Lavender is so so beautiful.
I imagine he is thinking of the fogs in
Sidney Harbor… I have seen these
colors in San Fransisco fogs.
I will be sketching with this amazing ink (it will replace my Platinum Lavender in my Pilot).

Viola is a sample not a bottle, and I may have to have the bottle… Though it is between the Sidney Lavender and Berry d’Arche below.

Berry d’Arche is also in a bottle and
I’m so glad I made that choice…
I was looking at browns
but this kept catching my eye,
and I put it in and took it out of my cart!
Much more interesting than brown ink.
Now that I have it is is exactly a berry stain!

I finally bought a new brown ink.
I have a few but they are very chocolatey,
good for writing but not so much sketching, with the exception of De Atramentis Tobacco, above…

I settled on RO Golden Brown,
a nutty ink that is a bit more yellow
than DeA Tobacco, which pleases me.
I can’t wait to get it into the rotation..

Then there is Melon Tea.
Omigoddess I’ve saved the best new ink for last.
It does look like tea!
it shades into unpredictable flavors of
greens and browns and wow I popped it into a Moonman and immediately did an
under-drawing of the mosque, below, and shaded and played with black ink over the top.

One of my favorite orange inks is
Diamine Pumpkin,
and I LOVE Robert Oster’s Orange Zest…
I also have his Orange,
because I bought it for a song
(yes I sing for inks),
but wanted Orange Zest.
Here is a comparison, above…
Pumpkin is a purer orange (like RO Orange)
but the zest has a some serious sheening.

Finally, I popped a couple of Diamine inks
I’d not seen before into the cart…
The images show how they move from
dark inks (like you might write with)
to gorgeous colors, lovely shading.
Eclipse will make it a lovely sketching ink.
I think, though, that I would chose the
Robert Oster berry-ful shades above
over the Diamine Damson.

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Me… why I journal!

Hahnemühle Nostalgie Sketchbook,
TWSBI Eco 1.1 with Robert Oster Green MIX!
Diplomat Aero with Robert Oster Fire Engine Red ink,
Lamy Al-Star with Robert Oster Graphite,
Lamy Vista with Robert Oster Thunderstorm ink,
Pilot Metropolitan with Super5 Frankfurt ink,
Jinhao with Goulet 1.1 stub nib and Robert Oster Grey Seas ink.

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Half Moon

Posted on March 27, 2019 by D. Katie Powell

Waking to a half moon so bright it was like a full moon!
Cat cuddles followed when they saw I was awake.

Robert Oster Graphite ink does all that color…

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“Memory is more indelible than ink.”
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“I think not….”
Me… why I journal!

Hahnemühle Nostalgie Sketchbook,
FPR Himalayan with Birmingham Tarnished Nickel ink (writing),
FPR Muft with Robert Oster Graphite ink (drawing) and waterbrush.

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Taxes, Losing Your Grounding

Posted on March 26, 2019 by D. Katie Powell

I started my taxes two days before the Full Moon.

It took waaaaaay longer than I thought,
because I was determined to find every last little deduction.
I am so tired of being screwed by the feds.

On the Full moon I woke to the big ball in the sky that exerts her energies on me,
I wished I could have a way of being that did not include all this crap.
Especially when all this crap doesn’t get me much.
the more I ploughed into every little receipt, the more depressed I got because
it really did not make a huge difference for five days work.

Middle of the night one night I made the ink backgrounds for my journal.

This is where the rant starts…
I don’t mind paying taxes, BUT BUT BUT
really, as small business people we pay more than our share and get little back for it.
We cannot deduct many things that corporations deduct…
Our percentage rate is HIGH…
and if something happens to us, though we pay in,
we cannot collect on disability unless we are out of work for years…

As a young person I paid little in taxes, really,
and they just keep raising them higher and higher, and the cost of living is
much more than most of us can afford and small business owners have
a smaller profit margin than the big stores chains.
On top of that the rich do not pay what we pay.

If we had Medicare for all it would help.
I have friends all over the world who are shocked at what we walk through here.
They are not commies and they have socialized medicine…
Gads when are we going to get smart?

I resent the hell out of all of what is going on, and blame the Dems too,
because they can’t form a cohesive sentence to save their lives in this argument
and don’t counter the stupidity.

I say to young people, “GET OUT OF THE USA WHILE YOU CAN!”

So every time you encounter a small business owner be kind during tax season,
because they are reminded how much they are on their own, always…

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“Memory is more indelible than ink.”
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Me… why I journal!

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Cat Squares, 8 Frisbee

Posted on March 25, 2019 by D. Katie Powell

10. CAT FRISBEE

Every day they find more things with which to play.
Many of these do not make me happy.
Especially if they steal them from my desk!

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“Memory is more indelible than ink.”
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“I think not….”
Me… why I journal!

Hahnemühle D & S Sketchbook,
Jinhao with Goulet 1.1 stub nib and Super5 Frankfurt,
Pilot Metropolitan with Super5 Frankfurt ink,
Da Vinci and Daniel Smith Watercolors.

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Al Noor Mosque

Posted on March 24, 2019 by D. Katie Powell

Artists around the world are showing solidarity with the New Zealand Mosques.
I see this as a prayer that the USA will choose sanity.
Understand I grew up with guns, have nothing against them…
But this is plain stupid… the killings won’t stop until we make it difficult.

Ink painting, Robert Oster (Melon Tea, Fire Engine Red) and
Platinum Carbon Pen with Platinum Carbon ink waterproof cartridges

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“Memory is more indelible than ink.”
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“I think not….”
Me… why I journal!

Hahnemühle Nostalgie Sketchbook,
Robert Oster (Melon Tea, Fire Engine Red inks),
Platinum Carbon Pen with Platinum Carbon ink waterproof cartridges.

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SoCS: Hahnemühle ZigZag Journal

Posted on March 23, 2019 by D. Katie Powell

I journal and do morning stream of consciousness exercises, and
I’m again participating in Linda Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday.
I write to a timer, 15-20 minutes, no editing except spelling, and of course I add my art!
You can do it too!
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “the last piece of mail you received.” Talk about the subject of the last piece of physical mail you received, i.e. a gas bill–talk about gas, not the bill itself. Have fun!

My older hand-made journals, above, and the new package below.

Wow.

I never get to yak on about something this exciting except with Mitchell,
and especially before I’ve even tried it out… so, wow!
Normally I’d have to wait to watercolor and in this case it’d have to be finishing
the whole journal and so this is an excellent prompt!

Yesterday despite the notices that it was going to be late the mailman brought the Hahnemühle ZigZag Watercolor Journal! This is an accordion journal, so it folds out
and can tell a long story all at once… I’ve made them, and they are not hard to make,
costly if you want a nice-sized long one — you have to have large sheets of paper or
there is an unsightly glue seam, which being a purist, I won’t do.
I like to work with the materials I have without fussing them into shapes they don’t want to go, and so my folded journals have not been longer than 36-inches.

But the Hahnemühle is large! It comes in several sizes, and my favorite favorite most exciting thing is it comes in a SQUARE format (be still my architectural heart!)
It has a lovely grey fabric cover and RED ELASTIC strap to keep it closed
(architectural grey and red, omi!) And this is 140 lb paper, good watercolor paper, and made by a company that has an amazing ecological track record.

I cannot contain myself… I want to paint today!!!!!

I’ve been hold off starting a project in hopes that I could do it in this journal and
am so happy this has arrived. Otherwise I’d have to write about the mail I got before this, which is tax crap, instead of this happy happy surprise!

For the rules, go to Linda’s blog; feel free to join the fun!

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“Memory is more indelible than ink.”
Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
“I think not….”
Me… why I journal!

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Bright Ideas: Mom Stuff, Purple and Orange

Posted on March 22, 2019 by D. Katie Powell

I am stuck in tax hell, and so need a bit of brightening….
the colors of Johnny Jump-ups!
And below, a video on making heart-shaped lollipops.

Yes you could say I am losing it. Hate. Taxes.

Love this little heart box… but probably won’t keep it!
I don’t know the story behind it….

I need to find a good home for these…
Sweet amethyst dragonfly choker I made for her.
I also gave her this silly but pretty purple glass heart bracelet to “match.”

Anyone in love with purple?

Bright Ideas multi-color journal,
Lamy Joy with De Atramentis Document Black ink,
Platinum Carbon Pen with Platinum Carbon ink waterproof cartridges,
White Uniball Signo pen, Fat white Pitt pen, and colored pencils.

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“Memory is more indelible than ink.”
Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
“I think not….”
Me… why I journal!

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Full Moon Setting

Posted on March 20, 2019 by D. Katie Powell

Cropping the images was a bit like how it was to experience the moon setting.

I saw more and more through the window.

And then it was right there and so bright.

Ink painting, Robert Oster (Bronze, Thunderstorm, and Orange)
and KWZ Foggy Green.

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“Memory is more indelible than ink.”
Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
“I think not….”
Me… why I journal!

Hahnemühle Nostalgie Sketchbook,
Robert Oster and KWZ inks.

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Canvas Project

Posted on March 18, 2019 by D. Katie Powell

I always like the energy of an idea best!

Remember when I posted about my entry into the Canvas Project?

Hundreds of tiny canvas entries each painting their visual image of a word.

They covered the walls of the art gallery with the canvases in Brooklyn!
I wish I could have seen the walls of the Sketchbook Gallery
with the Canvas Project’s canvases covering them.
My canvas is in the top right corner…

I got Jodi Scaltreto’s fish “SMELT” and she got my image of
Yaman doing “BEDLAM” — how cool is that?
I found out she is a quilter… by the name of Jodibird!

Now I’m done!

However, I am disappointed in the book images.
They look a bit like someone did them on an old copier.
If the blues had been “off” that would not have bothered me,
but the colors are faded and grey, as if no one bothered to do a publication check.
As we pay for the books, can’t say I’d do that again…
And sorry, every one is not saying this, but they are all thinking it…
It is the worst art publication I’ve ever seen.

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“Memory is more indelible than ink.”
Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
“I think not….”
Me… why I journal!

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St Patty’s Day

Posted on March 18, 2019 by D. Katie Powell

Belated Happy St. Patty’s Day!

It didn’t post… how strange!

Hahnemühle Nostalgie Sketchbook,
Pilot Metropolitan with Birmingham Slag Grey,
Platinum Carbon Pen with Platinum Carbon ink waterproof cartridges,
Robert Oster MIX!

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“Memory is more indelible than ink.”
Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
“I think not….”
Me… why I journal!

☾

As my Patreon supporter, you will have
access to some content not on this website,
sneak previews, goodies, discounts on classes.

I teach architectural sketching,
art journaling (art+writing), creativity, watercolors.
That annoying loud-mouth editor/critic in your head? GONE! How great would that be?