Tag Archives: floral

World (Not) Watercolor Month: Orange Daisies

Posted on July 16, 2021 by dkatiepowellart

I know I won’t be able to keep up with the one-a-day watercolor, but when I do them I enjoy them! These took me way back to being a kid in the 60’s, avocado and orange and pop-culture flower power! … Continue reading →

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Rona2: Delphiniums

Posted on July 24, 2020 by dkatiepowellart

Cynthia let me use her images of delphiniums with which to work; In the true theme of an art journal I was playing with paint and direct watercolor versus pen and ink and watercolor. Trying MGraham Ultramarine Violet, the prettiest … Continue reading →

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Rona on Grey, Lewisia

Posted on May 3, 2020 by dkatiepowellart

Lewisia from an image by Cynthia… Ink-painting with Robert Oster inks: Sushi and Green Lime and Glistening Orange Rumble! Flower named after Lewis, of Lewis and Clark… I love new ink days! No No No NO!! To hear about classes, … Continue reading →

Posted in art journal, creativity, drawing, journal, loss, memory, painting, pen & ink, process, ritual, sketchbook, watercolor, writing | Tagged #artjournal, #artjournaling, #Hahnemühle, #HahnemühleTonedWatercolourBook, #lewisia, #lifeinapandemic, #lovethestub, #middleofthenight, #pandemicpainting, #PlatinumCarbonPen, #posie, #robertosterink, #ronavirus, #twsbieco, #twsbilove, art journal, floral, Platinum Carbon pen | 3 Comments

Purple Lilies

Posted on February 13, 2020 by dkatiepowellart

Ink-painting with lovely new ink colors… Nostalgie sketchbook takes watercolor washes well, but sometimes ink washes get bogged down in the paper… Especially inks I have not played with enough to see how they move. Troublemaker Sea Glass (green) is … Continue reading →

Posted in art journal, creativity, ink painting, journal, pen & ink, sketchbook, writing | Tagged #28februaryflowers, #28febuaryflowers, #artjournal, #artjournaling, #ceriseink, #diamineink, #Hahnemühle, #lovethestub, #middleofthenight, #nostalgiejournal, #PentelAquashWaterBrush, #purplelilies, #robertosterink, #seaglass, #troublemakerinks, art journal, Fineline masking fluid, floral, Lily, Nostalgie Sketch Book Journal | 4 Comments

Inky Blue Posie

Posted on June 17, 2019 by dkatiepowellart

My inky posie is in Birmingham Allegheny Observatory Celestial Blue ink. This layered so nicely. I used 2-3 layers, which often doesn’t work, but maybe thoroughly drying in between helps — Or the slight water resistance in the ink. I won’t … Continue reading →

Posted in art journal, drawing, ink painting, painting, pen & ink, sketchbook | Tagged #artjournal, #artjournaling, #birminghaminks, #CelestialBlueink, #fprmuftstub, #lovethestub, #PentelAquashWaterBrush, #posie, art journal, floral, flower | 2 Comments

WWM: Day 4 Pink Posies and Hyacinth

Posted on July 4, 2018 by dkatiepowellart

Happy 4th for those who celebrate! I’ll post my 4th drawings tomorrow… Experiments with new inks, and new pens, TWSBI and Jinhao with Goulet nibs. *okay i cheated no watercolors but all with brush as if!* This Monteverde Chariote needs … Continue reading →

Posted in art, cards, challenge, color, ink painting, meditation, pen & ink | Tagged #coldpressed, #grapehyacinth, #Hahnemühle, #HahnemühlePostCards, #jherbinink, #monteverdeink, #robertosterink, #rough, #WorldWatercolorMonth, floral, flower, Hahnemühle Post Cards, Hahnemühle Postcards, posies | 4 Comments

Hahnemühle Post Cards, Posies

Posted on March 7, 2018 by dkatiepowellart

It is such fun to try handmade paints from JazperStardust and PfeifferArt. I played with them in posies on Hahnemühle post cards… I use masking for ease, and to get the white dots at the end… Jazper’s Lapis up against … Continue reading →

Posted in art, cards, color, ink painting, meditation, pen & ink, watercolor | Tagged #Hahnemühle, #HahnemühlePostCards, #handmadepaints, #handmadewatercolors, #jazperstardust, #pfeifferart, floral, flower, Hahnemühle Post Cards, Hahnemühle Postcards, posies | 2 Comments

Hahnemühle Post Cards, 8, Hydrangeas

Posted on February 1, 2018 by dkatiepowellart

Hydrangeas are on my mind; my mom loves them and the post cards cheer her! I made these to send to her. This one was watercolors and Platinum Lavender ink, which runs just a little when touched with water. This … Continue reading →

Posted in art, cards, ink painting, painting, pen & ink, watercolor | Tagged #HahnemühlePostCards, #hydrangeas, #postcards, Daniel Smith watercolors, Diamine Ink, floral, flowers, Hahnemühle Post Cards, Platinum Lavender Black ink, watercolor | Leave a comment

Inktober, 6 Purple Posies

Posted on October 6, 2017 by dkatiepowellart

These lovely purple daisies, a ground-cover, also found on our walk to breakfast… so sweet, hardy, covering an entire small yard of a painted lady. To hear about classes, follow me on Facebook or check out my new, improved dkatiepowellart.com … Continue reading →

Posted in art journal, challenge, drawing, ink painting, pen & ink, sketchbook, virtual sketching | Tagged #Hahnemühle, #inktober, #inktober2017, #middleofthenight, #nostalgiejournal, #nwportland, art journal, Daniel Smith watercolors, Fineline masking fluid, floral, flower, Nostalgie Sketch Book Journal, Platinum Carbon pen, purple flower | 6 Comments

Tools: Viviva Colorsheets and Hello Inktober

Posted on October 1, 2017 by dkatiepowellart

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 →

Posted in art journal, journal, painting, review, sketchbook, tools, watercolor | Tagged #HahnemühlePostCards, #inktober, #inktober2017, #vivivacolorsheets, #watercolorreview, art journal, Daniel Smith watercolors, DaVinci watercolors, doodles, Fineline masking fluid, floral, flower, Nostalgie Sketch Book Journal, Platinum Carbon pen, review, Viviva Colorsheets, watercolor | 10 Comments

Hahnemühle Post Cards, NOT, 12, Prickley Pear

Posted on September 20, 2017 by dkatiepowellart

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 →

Posted in memory, painting, pen & ink, watercolor | Tagged #middleofthenight, cactus, Daniel Smith watercolors, floral, flower, Hahnemühle Post Cards, Hahnemühle Postcards, Platinum Carbon pen, prickley pear cactus, watercolor | 2 Comments

Alizarin Gladioli

Posted on September 9, 2017 by dkatiepowellart

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 →

Posted in art journal, journal, painting, pen & ink, process, sketchbook, watercolor, writing | Tagged #gladiola, #gladiolas, #gladioli, alizarin crimson, art journal, Da Vinci Watercolors, Daniel Smith watercolors, DaVinci watercolors, Fineline masking fluid, floral, flower, Matteo Grilli, Nostalgie Sketch Book Journal, Platinum Carbon pen, watercolor | 5 Comments

Peach Glads

Posted on September 8, 2017 by dkatiepowellart

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 →

Posted in art journal, journal, painting, pen & ink, process, sketchbook, watercolor, writing | Tagged #gladiola, #gladiolas, art journal, Daniel Smith watercolors, DaVinci watercolors, Fineline masking fluid, floral, flower, Matteo Grilli, Nostalgie Sketch Book Journal, Platinum Carbon pen, watercolor | 5 Comments

Hahnemühle Post Cards, 11, Stuff for Friends

Posted on August 26, 2017 by dkatiepowellart

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 →

Posted in cards, memory, painting, pen & ink, watercolor | Tagged #SoCS, #streamofconsciousnesssaturday, Daniel Smith watercolors, floral, flower, forget-me-nots, Hahnemühle Post Cards, Hahnemühle Postcards, Platinum Carbon pen, rex begonias, seagulls, watercolor | 8 Comments

Hahnemühle Post Cards, 9, FORGOT

Posted on August 23, 2017 by dkatiepowellart

“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 →

Posted in cards, memory, painting, pen & ink, watercolor | Tagged #1linerWeds, Daniel Smith watercolors, floral, flower, forget-me-nots, Hahnemühle Post Cards, Hahnemühle Postcards, Platinum Carbon pen, watercolor | 10 Comments

VSW: Hahnemühle Post Cards, 4

Posted on June 23, 2017 by dkatiepowellart

More middle-of-the-night playing-with-inks postcards. In this one the delicate nature of the blossoms went a little awry, and mostly it was from overdoing the ink layers, then adding watercolors, and every thing began to moosh around and so I blobbed … Continue reading →

Posted in creativity, drawing, ink painting, painting, pen & ink, watercolor | Tagged #365sketch2017, art journal, cherry blossoms, Daniel Smith watercolors, De Atramentis Document ink, Diamine Ancient Copper Ink, floral, flower, flowers, gardenia, Hahnemühle Post Cards, Holbein, Lamy Joy, Lexington Grey Noodlers ink, mustard blooms, Neocolor II, Pentalic HB woodless pencil, Platinum Carbon pen, Super5 ink, watercolor, wild mustard | 9 Comments

Shooting Stars

Posted on May 1, 2017 by dkatiepowellart

These remind me of home, Southern California. They used to cover the hills before the dang hills became covered with houses! I am starting to get used to the rough textured watercolor paper of the postcards… Like any material element, … Continue reading →

Posted in creativity, drawing, ink painting, painting, pen & ink, watercolor | Tagged #365sketch2017, art journal, California wildflower, Daniel Smith watercolors, floral, flowers, Hahnemühle Post Cards, Holbein, Neocolor II, Pentalic HB woodless pencil, Platinum Carbon pen, Shooting Stars, watercolor | 2 Comments

Hearts + Flowers

Posted on February 14, 2017 by dkatiepowellart

Fooling around with cheerful flowers for a handmade card for Mitchell. Doodling while watching British Mysteries… Grabbed some of my shellacked papers to play with, and a dip back into markers and pencils. SPRING IS COMING!!!!!! I swear. Even though … Continue reading →