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 going to Santa Barbara sometime soon and hope to score a tour!
i feel better now being honest with you.*
I picked three quinacridones because it is by far my favorite pigment.
Right out of the tube I played a bit to see the colors on a back page. Very nice.
Their Alizarin Crimson is supposed to be amazing in that it is a light-fast alizarin.
It is a lovely color, used here with Matteo Grilli‘s Carmine for the deeper bloody red.
Da Vinci handled beautifully for the trial, and I layered it for deeper colors.
The Rose Dore is a keeper. A beautiful coral color that layers beautifully.
I don’t have this color in any tube without mixing, and that is a boon,
especially as I become addicted to flower sketches in the
middle-of-the-night and don’t use white hardly ever.
All this made me want to look at the Quinacridone Gold
in comparison to other QG’s in my palette, and some that mimic QG.
They are not all keepers, and I like them for different reasons.
Holbein’s QG is by far my favorite, as it is creamy and smooth,
and works wonderfully in skin tones mixed with peach or pink (like the two shown above).
Constantly replacing tubes….
Daniel Smith’s QG and QG Burnt Orange are both keepers,
but they are granular by comparison and I don’t use them often.
Aussie Gold, which I was seduced into buying
*remember i am an addict and i was vulnerable in bed sick at the time*
is a mixture of PY 83 Diarylide Yellow, PR 101 Transparent Red Oxide,
PV 19 Quinacridone Red. A keeper, though frivolous, because of its brilliance!
QoR QG Deep is a meh pigment, especially for the price,
and is in the Burnt Sienna family visually.
I’d reach for DS QG Burnt Orange, Sennelier’s 211 or Daniel Smith’s Pompeii instead.
Da Vinci’s QG is a keeper. Smooth, lovely color, less yellow than Holbien’s.
I always have room for a good Quin Gold!
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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 the middle-of-the-night*
They are pushing for leniency and have a “kids-will-be kids” attitude,
regarding the teenagers that tossed the firecrackers into the gorge.
NO!
I’m not on the side of the death penalty, but to write that these “children”
(oops, 15 is not quite a child…. more a minor) should not be charged
with a crime as an adult and do time because they
DIDN’T UNDERSTAND THE CONSEQUENCES is insanity?
Any one of my friends would have understood the consequences at 12, let alone 15.
We knew this was an evil, destructive, malicious act, just like
firing a gun at someone, beating up on someone, rape, or lighting a cat’s tail on fire.
Do people raised with a computer and games
between their fingers not understand real life?
Does this mean they are mentally ill? (Not having a grip on reality is mentally ill.)
How could anyone not evil (and do NOT tell me teens can’t be evil) do such a thing?
And for those of you who don’t know, there are signs all along the trails about
fire and firecrackers and other ways fires can start.
This morning the Eagle Creek fire has met the Indian Creek fire and is a force of
20,000 burning acres. At our studio an hour away (40 miles as the crow flies),
we can’t see far, and outside you can’t breathe. Falling ash.
The cops caught the kid (all of them), fleeing.
They talked to him, they had an eye witness who identified him.
They let him go. The Feds or the State Police must charge him (them).
Then there will be a trial and they should do time, the ones tossing doing the most time —
But, like bullies, those that watch are complicit.
I fell asleep early last night, and so, just after the full moon, I woke.
Middle-of-the-night I spent angst-ridden over the losses: the animals, the trees, the human casualties (we don’t know yet), the human losses in dollars, jobs, homes, buildings.
I had nowhere to go with my sorrow but to do a gratitude post.
*the last image is of my home fire station, laguna beach*
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Me… why I journal!
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