Finally got all my flowers in the ground, sat in the shade and sketched my neighbors extreme manicured tree/bush. She has several of these, I've seen Crepe Myrtles like this, but these aren't crepe myrtles. Cut the rest of the front yard... and finished my Sunflower painting.
This did not turn out at all as well as I'd hoped. I especially hate the lop-sided look of it. I will give this another shot...but thought I'd share the bad one anyway.Monday, April 30, 2012
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Apr28Art
Busy day today, grocery shopping, walking the dogs, planting flowers. Today was also the first day of my imaginary trip to Greece with Laurie Ferlita... Winna is the only other person on the trip that I know.
These little sketches were done with the fine line Kuratake brush pen I got this week. The ink in this pen bleeds... no matter how long it is down... it makes for a nice effect if you know about it in advance.
These little sketches were done with the fine line Kuratake brush pen I got this week. The ink in this pen bleeds... no matter how long it is down... it makes for a nice effect if you know about it in advance.
Day 1 - Trip to Greece
Finished page, even added some journaling to the page about the church. From accounts found on a Greece Travel website, comments about this church. If I live long enough to manage a trip to Greece a trip up this hill to see this church either at sun rise or sun set is on my bucket list of things I'd love to do.
To find out more about these trips, check Laure Ferlita's website here www.ImaginaryTrips.com/ImaginaryTrips/Welcome.html
To find out more about these trips, check Laure Ferlita's website here www.ImaginaryTrips.com/ImaginaryTrips/Welcome.html
Lesson one, set the timer for 30 minutes to draw and paint the church, stop when 30 mins up. I used a blue/grey watercolor pencil to draw the church, and then used sepia micron ink pen to ink the lines I liked the best. Took me a long time, but I was too timid to go straight in with the ink pen. Managed to paint the sky before time was up. I'm using my Hand*book watercolor journal for these sketches.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Apr27Art
We drew sharks, and fun fish and one little boy got lessons in snake drawing... he was thrilled... even some of the girls gave snake drawing a try.
Boaters have key chains that float, hopefully float enough to keep your keys from sinking LOL This is an old one we got when my husband worked the Around Alone Sailboat race in 1998-1999.Thursday, April 26, 2012
Apr26Art
Planted a few more impatiens tonight, and fired up the lawn mower and mowed the side yard. It was such a gorgeous day today and it's supposed to rain tomorrow.
Took a picture of the palette in hand... not easy... dropped the camera a couple of times trying to pull this off.
I got this waterbrush because I thought is was cool the way the brush broke down and the tip stored inside... however, it LEAKS so either have to empty it after each use or deal with the leak by putting in a bag.
Another view of the pencil case, note the little yellow water container (that came with the waterbrush I don't like)... I do like this little water container, it'll work to refill my Niji waterbrushes... that don't leak :-)
Jet pens had a pencil case the perfect size to hold my new compact palette. Because of the thumb hole I was wary of dropping this palette into my bag with wet paint. This little zippered case is the perfect size and even has room for pens and other stuff I need.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Apr25Art
Another make up sketch for the Rural sketchers, this is the base the dogwood tree in my front yard. It has very interesting texture to it's bark. My flower bed surrounds this tree, so I planted a few more flowers and tried to draw the textured bark of the tree...
I FINALLY got my copy of "The Art of Urban Sketching" today, been on back order for two months... the shark book sellers wanted $140 while everyone was out of stock... I sure hope nobody paid that price. It's a GREAT book, that I've only partially looked thru, but $140 I don't think so.
I FINALLY got my copy of "The Art of Urban Sketching" today, been on back order for two months... the shark book sellers wanted $140 while everyone was out of stock... I sure hope nobody paid that price. It's a GREAT book, that I've only partially looked thru, but $140 I don't think so.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Apr24Art
This is the first time the PPBP ran when I applied paint. With the colder temps, I've had the windows open, the heat off and the A/C too, for two whole days... I think that's a RECORD for us.
Got a few more flowers planted after work today, my fire ants appear to have moved. I don't think the poison kills them, it just makes them move to a new location.
Got a few more flowers planted after work today, my fire ants appear to have moved. I don't think the poison kills them, it just makes them move to a new location.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Apr22Art
Rained all day long today, fireants interrupted my flower planting yesterday, today, constant rain made finishing impossible, but the rain is great for the flowers I did manage to plant.
Used the PPBP to negatively outline the viper above. Love the rich black ink, and was able to paint over it with the red fairly quickly.
Used the PPBP to negatively outline the viper above. Love the rich black ink, and was able to paint over it with the red fairly quickly.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Apr21Art
I love Daniel Smith paints, and I also LOVE their customer service. Everyone makes mistakes, businesses willing to correct their mistakes and do so cheerfully and promptly... will get my business every time.
Nice gift of 3 tubes of paint, not colors I would normally order. The blue is a very muted blue/grey, looks darker in the scan, I think it'll be a great color for stone walls, or blue fin tuna paintings.
Got a free tube of Daniel Smith Sepentine Green, this was just seeing what the paint looks like, how it moved with the water... I think I like it.
Last 180 hours (or at least the package says so), used one today and it performed well at keeping the SC state bug the mosquito and the biting no see um's off me. At less than $1 each, I LOVE it, no oily spray to deal with is another added benefit. Keeping several in a plastic bag in my sketch kit for the Spring and Summer.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Apr20Art
This is the current weeks rural sketchers assignment, a memorial or statute... this is a huge urn in the Unitarian Church Cemetery in Downtown Charleston SC.. hope it qualifies. Used my Pentel Pocket Brush pen on this one too... ordered a Kuratake brush pen today, disposable with a 'fine' brush tip... I'm starting to like this brush pen stuff :-)
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Apr19Art
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Apr18Art
Got a box from Ken Bromley today, with the compact plastic palette I wanted and a flat travel brush... I love my round travel brushes, never seen a flat one before, so I had to have it. Spent the afternoon loading new colors in the palette. Trying out some new colors. It's looked like rain all day, and I do believe it is finally going to rain now.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
Apr16Art
Four hours yesterday afternoon, 5 hours this afternoon, forms printed, checks written, envelopes addressed, another tax year is DONE!
Continuing with my Pentel Pocket Brush Pen... this is Beau's Easter bunny, sock monkey toy... control is eluding me with this pen, I fear I'm too loose or is it tight? It seems to have a mind of it's own.. even trying to write is a struggle with it... maybe that's why Roz insists we use it for 60 hours... I think I've driven one for about 1 hr now... 59 to go.
Continuing with my Pentel Pocket Brush Pen... this is Beau's Easter bunny, sock monkey toy... control is eluding me with this pen, I fear I'm too loose or is it tight? It seems to have a mind of it's own.. even trying to write is a struggle with it... maybe that's why Roz insists we use it for 60 hours... I think I've driven one for about 1 hr now... 59 to go.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Apr15Art
I spent the weekend looking for 2 things, a copy of TurboTax and a Pentel Pocket Brush Pen. Roz talked about them on her blog on Friday...
rozwoundup.typepad.com/roz_wound_up/2012/04/project-frida...
I've never used one, other so called brush tip pens I haven't liked at all, this one sounded different, and many artists really like it, so I tried to find one locally. I didn't want to order one online and pay shipping for 1 pen, and I didn't want to wait to start on Roz's 5 weeks worth of lessons in using this pen. Finally bought Turbo Tax online (all the stores were OUT of the version I needed) and found the Pentel Pocket Brush Pen at Michael's today.
Michael's in my opinion over charges for art supplies is such a dramatic way, that I do not like to buy art supplies from them at all... and thus they were the last place I looked for the pen. They also have a horrid web site, according to their website they do not carry Pentel Pens at all... and yet, there they were in the store, if I had relied on their website I would not have visited their store at all, but previous experience told me to give it a look. This page was done with the brush pen, after a false start getting the ink cartridge seated properly so the ink flowed, I'm pleased with this pen. It is going to take a bit of practice to get used to it, I like that you can get really bold lines, I'm not confident I can get fine lines with it yet... and maybe it's not a fine line kind of pen. Roz says to use it for 60 hours... that's a LOT of drawing... so I've started... one step at a time.
rozwoundup.typepad.com/roz_wound_up/2012/04/project-frida...
I've never used one, other so called brush tip pens I haven't liked at all, this one sounded different, and many artists really like it, so I tried to find one locally. I didn't want to order one online and pay shipping for 1 pen, and I didn't want to wait to start on Roz's 5 weeks worth of lessons in using this pen. Finally bought Turbo Tax online (all the stores were OUT of the version I needed) and found the Pentel Pocket Brush Pen at Michael's today.
Michael's in my opinion over charges for art supplies is such a dramatic way, that I do not like to buy art supplies from them at all... and thus they were the last place I looked for the pen. They also have a horrid web site, according to their website they do not carry Pentel Pens at all... and yet, there they were in the store, if I had relied on their website I would not have visited their store at all, but previous experience told me to give it a look. This page was done with the brush pen, after a false start getting the ink cartridge seated properly so the ink flowed, I'm pleased with this pen. It is going to take a bit of practice to get used to it, I like that you can get really bold lines, I'm not confident I can get fine lines with it yet... and maybe it's not a fine line kind of pen. Roz says to use it for 60 hours... that's a LOT of drawing... so I've started... one step at a time.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Apr14Art
Spent today in club meetings, we like to eat here in the South, so one meeting was for breakfast, the next for lunch.
Friday, April 13, 2012
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Apr12Art
Cute little birds, this drawing is actually a tad bit bigger than the bird itself. They squeeze in between a crack in the storm window screen and the storm window.. about every 5 minutes they are bringing bugs to their clutch... I think there is more than 1 baby bird but I'm not positive.. I can't see the baby birds only the Mom and Dad.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Apr10Art
Another catch up sketch for the Rural Sketchers project... only 3 left and I'll be totally caught up... I hate being behind on anything... So this is a door in an alley in Charleston... the actual door was a dull, in serious need of repainting dark blue door... I love my transparent orange so I painted their door for them. Tried to spatter on some leaves... got it all over the page and me too... I need to work on my technique.
Monday, April 9, 2012
Apr09Art
This is our wireless, home phone, I actually like it better than my cell phone. I HATE my cell phone and can not WAIT to get a different phone, contract is up in June... so not much longer. I pretty much talk on the phone less than 3 mins a month... some months not even than much. I think I'm the only person these days that hates talking on the phone and don't text either.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Apr08Art
Happy Easter... still watching golf, ended in a tie South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen and Bubba Watson USA both with 10 under. Replaying the 18th hole, Louis is away... MISSed his putt... and Bubba... misses TOO... so another hole... Budda's on the green from the woods, Louis... off the green.. Bubba Watson WINS the Masters.
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Apr07Art
Spent a couple of hours walking a neighborhood and talking to voters about Ken Gunn running for Berkeley County Council district 3. Never done that before... wore me out... but I did actually get to talk to some people, nobody was ugly about it, lots of folks weren't home. It was a gorgeous cool morning for it. Got home and sat in a chair watching the Masters on TV... so here's my feeble attempt at a golfer.
Friday, April 6, 2012
Apr06Art
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Apr04Art
Went to the playoff Hockey game tonight, disappointing game as we lost, now they go to Gwinette Georgia for the next two games.
This is my USB hub doggy, got it at staples because I thought it was cute, doesn't work that great as I wanted to use it to connect my printer, but the printer won't work connected to this .. bummer. It still made a good model to draw today, and test drive the sketch board I made for myself.
This is my USB hub doggy, got it at staples because I thought it was cute, doesn't work that great as I wanted to use it to connect my printer, but the printer won't work connected to this .. bummer. It still made a good model to draw today, and test drive the sketch board I made for myself.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Monday, April 2, 2012
Sunday, April 1, 2012
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