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One Week Later
Still processing. Watching news, sleeping, reading, horrified. This week diversion is the Closer. To hear about classes, follow me on Instagram, Facebook or check out my new, improved dkatiepowellart.com “Memory is more indelible than ink.” Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. … Continue reading
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One Week
2021 1 6 I don’t have anything to say right now about this. Sketching and watching. Jan 12 2021 finished by labeling and writing on the sketches. And let me say I am not tagging this post. That alone should … Continue reading
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the creative life
This morning I received another email in the marketing blitz for a popular bundled experience from an online art school. Their classes are good — not great but good — and popular — however, there are amazing teachers teaching art … Continue reading
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Recipe: Mustard Honey Hot Red Chilies
Thanks Cynthia Leary Stroo for giving me an idea for a different glaze… Bored and stuck in a rut, I didn’t have all her ingredients but made do nicely and we’ll make this again. Yummy with some carrots put into … Continue reading
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Missing the Ocean
Praying that someday soon we will feel comfortable enough to drive out to the beach! To hear about classes, follow me on Instagram, Facebook or check out my new, improved dkatiepowellart.com “Memory is more indelible than ink.” Anita Loos, Gentlemen … Continue reading
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Surfacing
I am finally surfacing after this damn election. I am happy with the (almost) outcome but the close call depressed the hell out of me. Enough so that I didn’t draw after the 30th, when the fear of the future … Continue reading
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Rona2: Zebra Beans
It isn’t that I’ve stopped eating beans, it is that I am settling into a comfort zone with my cooking of beans. I still write down my experiences with new beans and am finding new beans to try but have … Continue reading
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Using Watercolour vs Sketching Journals
Covid changed my journal use yet again. Between the pandemic, sequestration, and the Portland protests, I began to write pages in my sketching journal… because that is what I carry with me, and I felt like I was writing to … Continue reading
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Rona2: In the Groove with Rancho Gordo
You are not hearing me rave as much about Rancho Gordo beans because I am kinda getting into a groove with them. I cook more of them in the manner described on their site, and then mix it up with … Continue reading
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Process Ink Painting, Blooms
Above, I simple use a Pentel Aquash waterbrush filled with water, Hahnemühle Nostalgie Sketchbook to try inkpainting a peach. I am trying to get the hang of not always ending up with “blooms” or dark edges. I used a small … Continue reading
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Tools: Robert Oster Glorious Inks
There is nothing like the gift of color! All that possibility wrapped in glorious juicy inks from Robert Oster Signature inks!! I will be playing with these soon, but had to at least share my newest bounty! A couple I’ve … Continue reading
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SoCS: Spot
I journal mornings with stream of consciousness exercises, and participate in Linda Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday whenever I have time. I write to a timer, 15-20 minutes, no editing except spelling, and of course I add my art! You … Continue reading
Rona2: Wall of Moms
I have so much to say about my disappointment in our government. I don’t recognize my country. No one works together to ward the common good. The last showdowns with the feds were with the Wall of Moms and the … Continue reading
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Rona2: VSW Minerve France, 2
Same process as the sketch yesterday. When I realized Evalyn Baker had taken photos of the alleyway from both sides, I had to finish the other side too! To hear about classes, follow me on Instagram, Facebook or check out … Continue reading
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Rona2: VSW Minerve France, 1
It usually starts with a sketch. Then shadows. I wanted to capture the dark that the leafy canopy created. I used DeAtramentis Document Urban Grey ink for the grisaille work so it would not move when I added watercolor. I … Continue reading
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Rona2: Cat Play
I don’t know what we’d do without the cats… Mitchell and I each bring different things to the play. I build forts; Mitchell does Willie Mays. Crinkly paper that comes in Chewy boxes, and the Give a Crap boxes, with … Continue reading
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Process Ink Painting, Tips
For Maureen!! I haven’t time to do a video but I decided to publish this now and not wait… more tips for painting with ink. Above, I simple use a Pentel Aquash waterbrush filled with water, and touched the Robert … Continue reading
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Rona2: AOC
I only wish I could do her justice… not quite right! For those of you who don’t think women go through this; it is true. The harassment started for me USC School of Architecture with SOME not all my design … Continue reading
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