tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60655665966427148592024-02-22T03:08:51.018-08:00lynne hoppelynne hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682812765012431260noreply@blogger.comBlogger399125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065566596642714859.post-67499229629845334632016-07-31T15:49:00.000-07:002016-09-21T00:43:31.478-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>after van gogh's 'head of a woman' ~ gouache in stillman and birn 'beta', 3 1/2" x 5 1/2"</i></span></div>
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my friends, i feel like i need to put up a post that officially lays this blog to rest, at least for the time being. </div>
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i'm still painting, still <i>loving</i> painting... a few weeks ago i took mary ann moss's <a href="https://omg.sketchbookery.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #990000;">'Oh My Gouache!'</span></b></a> class, which got me painting with gouache as much as transparent watercolors. hey, did you know that you can buy <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Holbein-Artist-Gouache-Set-tubes/dp/B001G7PCTU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1470001927&sr=8-1&keywords=holbein+gouache" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #990000;">a set of 18 (5 ml) tubes</span></b></a> of holbein gouache for about $38 on amazon? it's true! if you've been thinking you'd like to try gouache (or take mary ann's class) but can't afford it, this set may be for you... : ) </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>mt. shasta from the pacific crest trail</i></span></div>
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a couple of pics from the summer that make me smile big... </div>
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i hope this finds you well and painting. i'm still posting on instagram more or less regularly (lynne.hoppe). happily, i do see many of you there... </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The great majority of artists are throwing </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>~ Henry Miller, quoted in 'Life, Paint and Passion' by Michele Cassou and Stewart Cubley
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lynne hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682812765012431260noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065566596642714859.post-69516670887940418582015-12-21T12:14:00.000-08:002015-12-29T20:19:33.990-08:00<br />
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i'm still here, practicing painting loosely with watercolors (again!). we're getting a lot of snow, so besides the usual stuff there's much shoveling going on.</div>
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i wanted to wish you happy solstice - and a merry holiday season in general. i hope you have a beautiful one!</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>~ Langston Hughes, from “I Continue To Dream” </i></span></div>
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last january i was asked by the <a href="http://www.art5academy.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">documented life project</span></b></a> to be a featured artist at the end of october. it seemed so far away at the time! interestingly enough, i started painting on teabags again in early october, which fits right in with the theme for the month, 'translucent papers'. i'm gonna share a project that uses teabags to make prints. since i'm not someone who likes to work with prompts they created a very broad prompt for the week - 'just create'! <br />
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here are the supplies that i used, but you really don't need more than watercolors and matte medium. <br />
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2. <b>colored pencils</b> - because they can be helpful on tiny paintings.<br />
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what we're going to do is paint on a teabag and make a print from it. it's easy and there are no rules... you could use water soluble oil pastels or caran d'ache neocolor II crayons instead of watercolors! <br />
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any kind of empty tea bag will work; i'll use two kinds - one that unfolds, and one that doesn't. i'll start with one that doesn't. i like to use teabags that have already been used, but you could empty the tea from a new bag and proceed!<br />
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first i drew the face and shoulders - i dressed him in a jacket and tie. i used an 8B pencil because it shows up well. i've found that it's good to keep things simple, partly because you're working on such a small surface, and partly because tiny details are probably not going to show up once you make the print.</div>
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here's what the teabag looked like just after i put white oil pastel on his face. for places i couldn't get to with oil pastel and a blending stump, i used a white colored pencil - i like prismacolors because they're soft. </div>
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if you're not familiar with using watercolors and oil pastels together on faces,<a href="http://lynnehoppe.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-to.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;"><b> here's</b></span></a> how i do it. and, you don't <i>have</i> to use white oil pastel for the skin - you can use only watercolors, or watercolors and gouache. i just like the effect of white oil pastel and watercolors together. after i put the white oil pastel down i added watercolors and white gouache. i have no 'method' for this; i just fool around with watercolors and gouache until i like it.</div>
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here i've squirted liquid matte medium on the back of the teabag, and spread it around/mushed it in (with a 1/2" flat brush) until the teabag is completely saturated with matte medium. i haven't used matte *gel* medium for this, but i'm pretty sure it would work as well. </div>
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when you're sure that the teabag is saturated with medium, carefully lift it up and lay it on another piece of paper (or on a journal page). as you'll see, some of the paint from the original will have been transferred to the other piece of paper and you'll have a print.<br />
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i gently pressed the teabag onto another piece of paper - all that matte medium glued it in place.<br />
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after the teabag was dry i added a bit of red watercolor to his lips, and white gouache to his skin to bring back some highlights. i glued the tag down so it wouldn't flop around.</div>
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this is the print after i added more white oil pastel and gouache to his face, and watercolors here and there. i just messed around with him until he felt done...</div>
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now an example of a teabag that can be opened up... everything's the same, except opening the sides of the teabag after you paint it. or you could open the teabag first and then paint it!</div>
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laying face down with matte medium slathered on the back. i carefully pressed down with the flat brush all over the teabag to make sure the medium had soaked through everywhere.</div>
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the original on the left (i pressed it onto a page in my 'daily book') and the print on the right. the print is on a 4" x 6" piece of paper that i later stuck in my <a href="http://lynnehoppe.blogspot.com/2015/09/watercolors-and-gouache-in-pocket.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">'pochette'</span></b></a>, along with james and his younger brother. </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>'susan edwards'</i></span><br />
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the teabag/original after i added more oil
pastel, watercolors, and colored pencil... i covered up the hat with ivory acrylic paint because it seemed like she needed a bird on her head instead of a hat. : )<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>'jeanette edwards'</i></span><br />
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so you can see more detail... i put white oil pastel on her skin, and then added watercolors. i used the black colored pencil to bring a little definition to her eyes... she's pretty crazy looking, but she seemed to wanna stay that way.<br />
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i think my favorite thing about doing this is that it's an easy way to start two paintings, which may or may not end up looking like each other. somehow the print usually ends up looking like the alter ego of the original.</div>
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another teabag painting (on the left) and its print... </div>
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i hope you have fun with this! please feel free to ask questions in the comment section or via email!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">“If I paint my dog exactly as he is, naturally I would have two dogs, but not a work of art.”</span></div>
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<i> ~ Johann W. Goethe <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(via <a href="http://lynnehoppe.tumblr.com/post/131532611723/if-i-paint-my-dog-exactly-as-he-is-naturally-i" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">tumblr</span></b></a>)</span></i></div>
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after the last post we had a couple of weeks of hot, smoky weather, then it cleared up and cooled off - and i was outside walking as much as i could. seeing what the end of summer looked like in the forest. here it is september 8... </div>
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i finished the pocket moleskine sketchbook i was working in; the painting above is one of the last pages. instead of buying a new book for my 'daily book', i'm using the book i made with arches text wove (last post). </div>
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this paper is truly a joy to paint on; having the pages be a little thicker is the only improvement i can imagine... i'm doing pencil drawings on the backs of pages when i don't want anything to show through on the front side. </div>
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paintings i did before i made it my 'daily book'.</div>
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if you research arches text wove you'll often read that it's good for 'light watercolor washes'. i've found it to be good for light and heavy applications of watercolor. it's strong paper and colors layer beautifully on it.</div>
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my newest love... i read about watercolor paper coming in 'pochettes', which is a fancy way of saying pieces of paper inside a cover. i thought 'aha! i can make a pochette!' </div>
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using the same colors i painted on BFK rives (left) and in my little arches text wove book. i couldn't choose a favorite - they're both gorgeous papers.</div>
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and one more new paper! a 40% off coupon was burning a hole in my pocket when i went to the big city to get my car fixed, so i got a soft cover strathmore 500 series mixed media journal. again, *nice* paper! also 100% cotton and a joy to paint on.</div>
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maybe my biggest painting love - the little <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pentalic-Art-Watercolor-140-Pound-5-375-Inch/dp/B00PHW59WU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1441774993&sr=8-2&keywords=pentalic+aqua+journal" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">watercolor book</span></b></a> that i take out walking. i'm almost finished in it...</div>
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there's something special about painting outside, and i know i've said it before.</div>
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flies may be bombarding you, and squirrels might scold you continuously until you think they'll have a heart attack, but you keep going, </div>
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doing the best you can do while swatting flies and worrying about squirrel heart attacks.</div>
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left in this tree, which has orange paint on it because it marks the boundary of a 'partial cut unit' in the national forest. </div>
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it's been a wonderful summer for me, and i hope it has been for you, too... </div>
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i decided to practice painting roses realistically before proceeding with painting them loosely. i wonder if you can paint flowers - or anything - loosely without understanding its basic form? i think you have to know what something really *looks* like before you can paint it realistically <i>or </i>loosely. </div>
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in my 'daily book' i've done a lot of ink and watercolor paintings.</div>
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this is j. herbin's 'lie de th<span class="st">é</span>' ink. because it's not waterproof it bleeds into the watercolors beautifully.</div>
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the other book that i've been painting in is one that i made with arches text wove. it's a beautiful 100% cotton paper that's widely available in sheets. it's quite thin, but hardy. nothing bleeds through, but you can see dark images faintly on the back side of the page. watercolors and ink are a dream on it. calligraphers use it a lot.</div>
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to make the book i followed a link on <a href="http://thealteredpage.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-week-links-59.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">seth's blog</span></b></a> to <a href="http://josenaranja.blogspot.com/2015/07/about-bookbinding.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">jose naranja's post</span></b></a> about bookbinding. he takes the paper out of pocket moleskines and puts good paper back inside the cover. i took the text block/paper out of an unfinished pocket 'handbook' that i had. it isn't perfect, but it turned out pretty good! i wouldn't buy a new book just for the cover, but, the 'handbook' was languishing in the closet...</div>
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when it hasn't been hot, i've been out walking. that's the badass paint set sitting on a rock, waiting for me to finish taking pictures.</div>
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a new butterfly for me - it looks kind of like a yellow swallowtail, but it's not. </div>
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instagram... thanks to the help of <a href="http://lisagrahamart.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">lisa graham</span></b></a> and <a href="http://kathydorfer.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">kathy dorfer</span></b></a>, i've been posting pictures there. i haven't *totally* figured it out, but sort of. i'm thinking about doing it instead of blogging. or not. i haven't decided. i don't think i'll do both.</div>
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anyway, i'm lynne.hoppe if you're there!</div>
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<i>~Vincent van Gogh in a letter to Theo, March 11, 1882
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i've been on a kachina spree. i painted this one after a beautiful day out walking... </div>
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moleskine sketchbooks...<br />
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they no longer have the manila folder-like paper in them. the new paper is accepting of watercolors, and the paint stays vibrant on it. it's not like watercolor paper, but it's pretty good.</div>
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it's a long story, but it started with that bigger tube of translucent orange on the left. i kept reading about how beautiful it was so i got a tube, and it's *stunning*. at about the same time i stumbled on the work of <a href="http://www.susanart.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">susan harrison-tustain </span></b></a>and read about her schmincke palette of 12 colors. because i was having trouble with color mixing (making lots of muddy/dull colors) i'd been researching pigments and color mixing, and her palette made immediate sense to me.</div>
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her palette of 12 colors is <a href="http://www.susanart.com/susans-magical-palette" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>here</b></span></a>...</div>
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it <i>is</i> an incredible palette. i painted the swirls above by randomly picking up colors to see if i could create an ugly or dull color. i think it's impossible.</div>
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because 5 ml tubes of schmincke watercolors aren't available in the U.S., i bought mine from <a href="http://www.susanart.com/susans-magical-palette" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">jackson's art supply</span></b></a> in london. the total for eleven 5 ml tubes, including shipping, was about $75.<br />
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and two daniel smith colors that i've gotten recently and love... transparent pyrrol orange -a beautiful and potent red orange, and kingman green turquoise - a gorgeous, earthy green turquoise. i found out about the pyrrole orange on <a href="http://janeblundellart.blogspot.com/2014/08/colour-exploration-4-bright-non.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">jane blundell's blog</span></b></a>. if you're a watercolor person you've probably already spent hours there, but if by some chance you've missed it, you'll find lots of helpful info on her blog.</div>
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one last thing that i wanna pass along - paper related. if you haven't been to blick lately they've changed their policy re: ordering large sheets of paper. you can now buy less than 10 sheets if you pay a $3 handling fee. i'm happy about that!</div>
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i found this bone not far from the pond where i watched the trout. i thought i'd try painting on it with watercolors. it worked! i 'sealed' it with some of my lip balm and left it for the trout.<br />
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i don't think i did a very good job of explaining *why* i like slant well palettes... </div>
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if you want a small bit of paint for a light wash, you can pick up the diluted paint at the front of the well. because i put a couple drops of water on the paint when i started working, all of the paint is wet; it's easy to pick up a whole bunch of paint, or a tiny little bit.</div>
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i wanted to show you some of the books i refer to for flower painting inspiration and instruction - in case it's helpful.<br />
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carrie schmitt's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Painted-Blossoms-Creating-Expressive-Flower/dp/1440336741/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1437626044&sr=8-1&keywords=painted+blossoms" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>'painted blossoms' </b></span></a>is one of them<b>... </b> it's<b> </b>helped me figure out how to paint imaginary flowers,</div>
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there are inspiring artists in it. one that i especially love is <a href="http://www.liaporto.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">lia porto</span></b></a>. if you don't know her paintings, check them out.</div>
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back to imaginary flowers... without those darker bits in the rose itself, it's flat and barely looks like a rose. it's those darker bits - and where to place those darker bits - that i'm trying to get the hang of.</div>
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i use these books when i can't think of *any* kind of flower to paint or draw. there are lots of good shapes/ideas in these books. looking in them you recognize what makes a flower look like a certain kind of flower. </div>
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the basic shape for the morning glories on this page came from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ways-Tulip-Other-Fabulous-Flowers/dp/159253886X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1437626818&sr=8-1&keywords=20+ways+to+draw+a+tulip" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>20 ways to draw a tulip</b></span></a>. </div>
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jean haines' books, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jean-Haines-World-Watercolour/dp/1782210393/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1437630114&sr=8-1&keywords=jean+haines" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>world of watercolor</b></span></a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jean-Haines-Atmospheric-Watercolours-Expression/dp/1844486745/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1437630114&sr=8-3&keywords=jean+haines" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">atmospheric watercolors</span></b></a> are what i've used to try and learn how to paint flowers more loosely. i have a looong way to go on this! </div>
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it takes a lot of water to paint the way jean paints, so i looked around for a collapsible water cup that i could stick in my daypack. i found <a href="http://www.dickblick.com/products/faber-castell-clic-and-go-water-pot/?clickTracking=true&wmcp=pla&wmcid=items&wmckw=03323-7030&gclid=CICTlca98MYCFY9ufgodyvgEaA" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;"><b> faber-castell's clic and go collapsible water cups</b></span></a>, and they are fantastic. the outside is rubber so it's non slip, the top is wavy so you can rest your brush on it, and they collapse down to about an inch tall. here mine's being filled under a very tiny waterfall where i was painting last week. it looks like a flower!</div>
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the last things that i want to tell you about are the ink and dip pen that i use. my favorite inks are <b><span style="color: #660000;">pilot iroshizuku 'ina-ho rice ear'</span></b><span style="color: #660000;">,</span> and <b><span style="color: #660000;">j. herbin's 'ambre de birmanie</span></b>'. i use <a href="http://www.jetpens.com/Tachikawa-Comic-Pen-Nib-Holder-for-Various-Pen-Nib-Model-25/pd/4583" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">this</span></b></a> nib holder, and <a href="http://www.jetpens.com/Brause-361-Steno-Blue-Pumpkin-Calligraphy-Pen-Nib-Fine-Point/pd/5809" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">this</span></b></a> nib - they're inexpensive, but wonderful!<br />
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the last few months have been a whirlwind... three months have passed since my last post, and it seems like a month - at most!<i> </i></div>
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the main event of my trip to virginia was a 165 mile, 16 day hike on the appalachian trail. i went with my sister, carole, and our friend, beth. carole and beth had already hiked the other 300+ miles of the virginia AT; i just went along on the last section. </div>
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the birds were mind blowing in their variety and in the songs they sang. one night we heard whip-poor-wills <i>all night long</i> - above our tent.</div>
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it's humbling to hike the AT in late spring because you meet a lot of 'through hikers'. they left georgia in february and planned to reach maine in july. every day that they're on the trail they hike<i> 13 - 26 miles. </i>whoa...<i><br /></i></div>
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during the hike the pages looked more like this. for the most part i had little energy for painting.</div>
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now my 'daily book' is a 3 1/2" x 5" 'handbook', doing pages like this with watercolors and colored pencil.</div>
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but i'm also working outside my 'daily book'... in fact my 'daily book' has become a place for writing things down about the day with only a tiny bit of painting/drawing. i'm working in a lot of other books, and that's where my painting practice is happening. one thing i do is tear 22" x 30" sheets of watercolor paper into fourths, fold them in half and stitch them together.</div>
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i'm practicing painting flowers in a looser way. i practice and practice! the page on the left is acrylic flower practice. i'm pretty stuck on flowers right now.</div>
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more practicing... painting (with watercolors) without drawing first and using lots of water. this is in the little book i take out walking. one of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pentalic-Art-Watercolor-140-Pound-5-375-Inch/dp/B00PHW59WU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1436999801&sr=8-2&keywords=pentalic+aqua+journal" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">these</span></b></a> - they have *great* paper in them.</div>
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and now we come to what *really* motivated me to do this post! i wanted to show you
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so, after much looking around on the internet i bought this holbein metal palette. they come in different sizes, and in steel or aluminum. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NAO8R2?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;"> this</span></b></a> is the one i got - it has 24 slant wells. i've put what looks like ridiculously small dabs of paint in it, but it's *plenty*. </div>
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they make so much sense for watercolors; i truly cannot believe that i never thought about using a slant well palette before. </div>
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i have more stuff that i want to share, but this post is long enough. i'll be back - and it won't be three months from now!<br />
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i've been delinquent, but i must post now because tomorrow i leave for a five week trip to virginia. if i don't post now it'll be may before i do! that's just too long!</div>
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my arm has healed beautifully, that's not why i haven't posted. partly it's been laziness, and partly it's been a lack of anything to show. i felt like the woman in the drawing above; everything i did left me uninspired. it felt old, boring, bleh... i tried a lot of different papers and a lot of different books, and everything i did in them felt bleh.</div>
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then a few things happened. i read <a href="http://juliefordoliver.blogspot.com/2015/03/reflections-2and-call-for-help.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">this post</span></b></a> by julie ford oliver and what she described felt so much like what i was in the middle of that i better just knowing i wasn't alone. i saw the flower paintings of <a href="http://barijdesigns.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">bari j.</span></b></a> and instantly felt "YES!" inside. and last but not least, <a href="http://juliefordoliver.blogspot.com/2015/04/narcissus-and-lilacs-painted-in-car.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">another post</span></b></a> by julie ford oliver showing a watercolor painting in a moleskine sketchbook, which i've always thought of as the worst possible books for watercolors. but hey, it was obviously time to shake things up so i painted in an old one and <i>loved</i> it. it was the first thing i'd done in months that truly made me happy inside.</div>
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since then i've been painting gleefully... this bird and the painting at the top of the post were done in a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00511C9YI/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2GGFAF3HBQIU4&coliid=I2MT53XDR5QJAO" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">hahnemuhle sketchbook</span></b></a> that i got in february - and quickly decided was no good for watercolors (but fantastic for pencil). now i think that watercolors (especially gansai tambi watercolors) are gorgeous in it.</div>
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looking back it feels like i was in a maze, taking lots of turns that i thought would lead to soulful paintings, but were instead dead ends. it was very frustrating and i'm glad i'm out of it...</div>
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one of the things that i'm gonna do in virginia (besides visit my family) is go on a long hike on the appalachian trail. i've been walking *a lot* lately to get ready for it. i'll be taking a sketchbook for sure, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Winsor-Newton-Cotman-Water-Color/dp/B000N9B3WM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1429159756&sr=8-3&keywords=winsor+and+newton+travel+paint+set" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">this paint set </span></b></a>which is (most) affectionately known as The Badass Paint Set. i took the cotman paints out and put in my own choices... also a small tube of white gouache. </div>
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and now on to things that i've been wanting to tell you about! <a href="http://www.jetpens.com/Tombow-Ippo-Pinch-Point-Pencil-Sharpener-Blue/pd/8885" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">this pencil sharpener</span></b></a> for starters! it's the best... i know, i know, i've recommended other sharpeners before, but this one's better!</div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pentalic-Art-Watercolor-140-Pound-5-375-Inch/dp/B00PHW59WU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1429157625&sr=8-1&keywords=pentalic+aqua+journal" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">pentalic 100% cotton watercolor journals</span></b></a> now come in a 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" size; larger 5" x 8" books are also available. the paper in these books is *nice*.</div>
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legion paper company sells samplers of many kinds of paper - watercolor, book, digital, drawing, etc... you can order them<a href="http://www.legionpaper.com/samples/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;"> here</span></b></a>.</div>
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the best list of journals, sketchbooks and visual diaries <i>ever</i>, <b><span style="color: #660000;">here</span></b>! thank you, <a href="http://beverleyshiller.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">beverley</span></b></a>!</div>
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<br />lynne hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682812765012431260noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065566596642714859.post-12952840730232370022015-02-04T18:19:00.000-08:002015-02-04T20:25:11.577-08:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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a few weeks ago i fell off of a log while crossing the creek and fractured the humerus on my right arm. the good thing is that you don't have to have a cast for this kind of fracture, the <i>not</i> good thing is that you still can't use your arm! but i'm really, really grateful for no cast and only a fracture; also that i'm completely off of dish washing duty for a while.</div>
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i've kept painting, sometimes with my left hand (above), and sometimes with my right, which i can do if i keep the paper close to my body. i have to use my left hand to rinse the brush and pick up more paint, though, so it's not a speedy process.</div>
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this is one of the last paintings i did before i hurt my arm. i will surely be glad to get back to painting these small, precise paintings! i marvel at it now!</div>
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little by little it gets easier to type, so i'll be back to leaving my words at your places soon. the main reason for this post is to tell you that... </div>
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<i>~ Robert Henri <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(via <a href="http://huariqueje.tumblr.com/post/108158874166/art-is-after-all-only-a-trace-like-a-footprint" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>tumblr</b></span></a>) </span></i></div>
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it's been a long time... i've painted a lot since the november post. i've tried to draw and paint every day, because it keeps me happy...</div>
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but for sure there've been plenty of days when this was my motto. when i painted and drew even when i couldn't think of anything to paint or draw. </div>
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i finished the landscape orientation book from the november post,</div>
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started in a new pocket watercolor moleskine, and made a new book with stillman and birn's 'delta' paper.</div>
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here i was messing around with 'golden' high flow acrylics. i *like* them.</div>
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i painted/drew a lot of this page while i was on the phone, on hold. listening to muzak can make you go a little crazy. </div>
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i've thought about how much i <i>love</i> to draw small faces,</div>
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a few days ago i took <a href="http://jeanneoliver.ning.com/group/creative-girl-the-land-of-light-and-shadow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>danielle donaldson's</b></span></a> e-course <a href="http://jeanneoliver.ning.com/group/creative-girl-the-land-of-light-and-shadow" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">'creative girl: the land of light and shadows'</span></b></a>, which is offered on <a href="http://jeanneoliver.ning.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>jeanne oliver's ning</b></span></a> group. for two days most of jeanne's classes were half price; i took danielle's class and signed up for <a href="http://kathievezzani.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">kathie vezzanie's</span></b></a> <a href="http://jeanneoliver.ning.com/group/plaster-and-wax-101" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">'plaster and wax 101'</span></b></a> for $34! i appreciate that jeanne keeps the prices of her classes low in general, and sometimes has super good deals on them.</div>
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in danielle's class i learned a lot about highlights and shadows, which is a subject i'm endlessly fascinated by. <i>and</i> danielle's a watercolor and pencil girl too - you know i love that! i painted this 'danielle girl' in class... <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> (i'll pretend that the bottom line of her cape really does make my eyes smile ; )</span> </span> not only did i learn a lot, it was a lot of *fun* to paint and draw in a different way.</div>
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i painted this yesterday, sitting outside. i've hardly been out wandering at all - the ground is really muddy and it's been cold, but yesterday it was 30 degrees, which is warm enough to walk, and, if you find a sunny spot, warm enough to paint. since i couldn't think of anything to paint i just put color down; i kept painting and repainting until the sun went behind the trees. it felt so great to be painting outside again... and yeah, i *do* keep a tube of white gouache in my daypack!</div>
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if you've made it this far, you have true stamina, ha! thank you for your kindness, your comments, and your support in the past year... and for all of the cool tips and great products that you've shared with me. may 2015 be a happy one for you all!</div>
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<br />lynne hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682812765012431260noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065566596642714859.post-39508645460215589282014-12-21T00:30:00.000-08:002014-12-21T22:10:27.649-08:00<br />
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my friends, the solstice is here again! i wish you a peaceful one...</div>
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<br />lynne hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682812765012431260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065566596642714859.post-66837967533939693212014-11-16T22:00:00.000-08:002015-06-24T23:06:08.331-07:00<br />
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last night i repainted the face on the cover of the journal i'm working in...<br />
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it looked like this before - it's an old painting that i used to like, until i began to not like it. just looking at her made me feel kind of tired... so i tried different things. you know how it is, you seem to be going from bad to worse and then it all comes together and you like it. i'm glad i like it now. it's so much better working in a book with a pleasing cover. or a book whose cover is a work in progress - that's good too. i often don't do anything to the cover until i'm near the end. that way i know what the 'flavor' of the book is and can make the cover have a similar one. </div>
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many of them. this is one of the last pages that i painted while sitting outside, on a sunny ridge, watching grasshoppers fly around. they were out and about that day.</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">'intercessor #531' ~ watercolor and graphite on stillman and birn 'delta' paper', 3 1/2" x 5 1/2"</span></i></div>
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i do miss painting outside. i came to love that last summer...</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>'aquatic intercessor #444' ~ watercolor, graphite, and acrylic paint on stillman and birn 'delta' paper', 3 1/2" x 5 1/2"</i></span></div>
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in the last post <a href="http://jeanniehunt.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">jeannie</span></b></a> left a link with info about emailing stillman and birn to ask for free paper samples. it's <a href="http://cdn.dickblick.com/items/118/90/StillmanBirnEmailSample.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>here</b></span></a>.</div>
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and janine asked about a good book making tutorial. i like<a href="http://pamcarriker.com/2014/09/04/making-the-journalbigger/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;"> this one</span></b></a> by <a href="http://pamcarriker.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">pam carriker</span></b></a>.</div>
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<i>~ Nick Bantock, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tricksters-Hat-Mischievous-Apprenticeship-Creativity/dp/0399165029/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416199845&sr=8-1&keywords=the+tricksters+hat" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">'The Trickster's Hat'</span></b></span></a></i></div>
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it's like this: when the days are sunny i wanna be out walking (or sitting) in the sun; when the days are cloudy the light isn't good for taking blog pics. and so the days roll by...</div>
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thank you for your suggestions re: brown paper in the last post! in case it's helpful, here they are:</div>
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the only thing i've done on brown paper since the last post! the paper is from a mailing envelope with a beautiful orange-y cast. the way the green colored pencil on the bottom pops off the paper thrills me!</div>
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mostly i've been messing around with my new <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/198061123/kuretake-watercolor-set-gansai-tambi?ref=related-0" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">kuretake gansai tambi watercolors</span></b></a>. i wasn't sure if i'd like them but the packaging was gorgeous, and the pale aqua irresistible. this page is the first time that i used them, and i was impressed by their intensity... if you click you can see how opaque the colors can be on the top left leaf.</div>
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the next day i painted this girl; i used two colors of green for her hair, then went away to do something else. when i came back and saw the way the colors had arranged themselves, the interaction between them, i was smitten.</div>
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here they are in my art room - they're huge. i had to have the set of 36 because it's the only one with all of the iridescent colors. </div>
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what it looks like now - i glued one of my old paintings to the front and covered it with a couple of layers of liquitex satin varnish. </div>
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when i had a couple of pages left in the moleskine i read that stillman and birn is now selling the paper that they use in their books by the sheet. what?!! i did not hesitate... i ordered five sheets of the 'delta' paper from <a href="http://www.artsupplywarehouse.com/finelineDisplay.php?id=130090" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>ASW</b></span></a> and made my next book with it. it contains - almost exactly - one 22" x 30" sheet of 'delta' paper. i could not be happier... </div>
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yep, i made it in landscape format! one day when i was painting outside i realized why landscape format is so useful - it fits in your hand when you're painting. it took me a long time to figure this out. ; )</div>
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another thing i've gotten since the last post is an 8 oz. container of americana's light buttermilk paint. this is my absolute favorite paint for covering stuff up that i don't like. masking tape + americana 'light buttermilk' = a fresh start... there used to be a face on this page.</div>
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painted after looking at <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/10/a-few-of-maira-kalmans-favorite-things/381011/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>this article</b></span></a> about maira kalman's new books. <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/tag/maira-kalman/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>here's</b></span></a> another article about maira's new books. both of these articles have pictures of maira's paintings, of course.<br />
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a quick post about something that inspired me last week... colored pencils on brown paper.</div>
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inspired by colored pencil sketches on cereal boxes that i saw on tumblr.</div>
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they're drawn by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/74583025@N05/with/9499143202/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">peter rush</span></b></a>... at first i thought they were drawn<b> </b>using<b> </b>soft pastels, but no, it's the humble colored pencil! you can read a <a href="http://www.urbansketchers.org/2014/08/peter-rush-draws-boxes-of-energy_13.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>great interview</b></span></a> with peter on the urban sketcher's blog, where he contributes.</div>
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all of my drawings are done on a mailing envelope that i received a few days after i saw peter's sketches... </div>
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after my post in july about drawing, i bought <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Drawing-Mind-Silence-Creative/dp/159030943X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410148872&sr=8-1&keywords=the+drawing+mind" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">'the drawing mind'</span></b></a> by deborah putnoi. i remember that i read it cover to cover and did most of the exercises, </div>
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at about the same time i saw a tutorial on <a href="http://real-life-journals.blogspot.com/2014/07/new-journal-and-small-tutorial.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">gwen diehn's blog</span></b></a> for making a journal with paper from a strathmore pad and a<b> </b>rice bag. i had the paper but not the rice bag, so i substituted muslin that i painted. i tore each sheet from the strathmore 400 watercolor pad into four pieces, which i then folded in half. this gave me 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" pages.</div>
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i have *loved* working in this book! the good thing (or one of the good things) about strathmore 400 watercolor paper is that you can put loads of water on it and it<i> will not buckle</i>. </div>
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with my newfound drawing freedom and a small book with heavy watercolor paper in it, i was happy.... i felt like the guy on the left page. : )</div>
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realizing how important small page size was to me, i also bought a pocket <a href="http://www.gouletpens.com/Black_Lined_Pocket_Rhodia_Webnotebook_p/r118069.htm" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">rhodia webbie</span></b></a> for pencil and colored pencil drawings at about this time. the paper is ivory and super smooth...</div>
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on top of all this wondrousness, i also (thanks to <a href="http://galiaalena.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-watercolour-day.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>galia</b></span></a>)<b>, </b>got <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Water-Paper-Paint-Creativity-Watercolor/dp/1592536557/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410151020&sr=8-1&keywords=water+paper+paint" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>'water, paper, paint'</b></span></a>, by heather smith jones. this book expanded my watercolor horizons manyfold. suddenly i saw new ways to express myself with watercolors...</div>
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these are some of the paintings i've done in the pocket moleskine watercolor book that i got after i filled the book in the last post. </div>
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unlike the little book in the last post, which i only worked in when i was outside, i work in this book inside and out. </div>
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i *like* landscape orientation now, something i never thought would happen!</div>
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i've been practicing painting faces using only watercolors - no colored pencil, oil pastels, etc.</div>
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one thing that i thought might be worth sharing is the greys i use (besides payne's grey, which i don't think of as a grey, but some kind of paint magic). i use these greys more than any other color/s... left to right: sennelier warm grey, sennelier grey (a dark green grey), and holbein gouache grey #2.</div>
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this is where my drawing - and painting - journey stands now. thank you to everyone who commented on my july drawing post; i enjoyed hearing your thoughts... as for erwin lian and 'the perfect sketchbook', he exceeded his kickstarter goal, thanks to the support of many artists.<br />
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<i>~ Brian Eno, "On Art" </i></div>
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this post is in support of Erwin Lian Cherngzhi's <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theperfectsketchbook/the-perfect-sketchbook-for-travel-artists-and-art/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">kickstarter campaign</span></b></a>... Erwin is a sketcher who wants to create The Perfect Sketchbook. his perfect sketchbook is 3 1/2" x 5 1/2", contains 60 pages of 140# saunders waterford 100% cotton coldpressed watercolor paper, and lays perfectly flat when open. it also has lots of other great features that you can read about on <a href="http://theperfectsketchbook.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">The Perfect Sketchbook website</span></b></a>.</div>
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as of today there are six days left in his kickstarter campaign, and i'd like to see him meet his goal because i want to paint in The Perfect Sketchbook! </div>
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the pics in this post were <i>not</i> painted in one of erwin's perfect sketchbooks, but in a 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" watercolor book that was given to me last spring. </div>
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i've had a blast painting in it and only have six blank pages left. these are some of my favorite pages...</div>
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but some are. i feel like i've learned a lot about painting outside; i have increased respect for those who paint 'en plein air'! for instance a strong wind always seems to come up when you decide to paint wet on wet, and i am amazed at how fast water dries on paper.</div>
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i wanted to make juliette a little less serious, but nope. all of the sudden mosquitoes were bearing down on me, so serious she stayed! i only paint in this book when i'm outside, and i always leave the paintings as they were when i shut the book. i don't fix them up at home...</div>
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probably my favorite thing is smearing paint around in the background, and i can get way too carried away with this. but it's so much fun.</div>
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lately i've been doing paintings like this... whoa! <i>really</i> fun!</div>
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this little book was given to me by <a href="http://kathydorfer.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">kathy dorfer</span></b></a>, who brought it back from italy for me. thank you, kathy...</div>
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everything i use (except the pencil)... it's a cotman watercolor set that i took the paints out of years ago, and replaced with daniel smith watercolors. the brush is an <a href="http://www.dickblick.com/products/isabey-pure-squirrel-mop-pocket-brush-series-6202/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">isabey travel brush</span></b></a><i>.</i><br />
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but back to <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theperfectsketchbook/the-perfect-sketchbook-for-travel-artists-and-art/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">erwin's kickstarter campaign</span></b></a>! if you think he's on the right track with his sketchbook i hope you'll consider supporting him. a $25 pledge means that you'll receive a sketchbook sometime in december, but you can contribute as little as $1...</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He had no thought of being an artist at all. He sat in his cheap little room writing a letter to his younger brother in Holland, whom he loved very much. He looked out his window at a watery twilight, a thin lampost, a star, and he said in his letter something like this: “it is so beautiful I must show you how it looks.” And then on his cheap ruled note paper, he made the most beautiful, tender, little drawing of it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> When I read this letter of Van Gogh’s it comforted me very much and seemed to throw a clear light on the whole road of Art. Before, I thought that to produce a work of painting or literature, you scowled and thought long and ponderously and weighed everything solemnly and learned everything that all artists had ever done aforetime, and what their influences and schools were, and you were extremely careful about *design* and *balance* and getting *interesting planes* into your painting, and avoided, with the most astringent severity, showing the faintest *academical* tendency, and were strictly modern. And so on and so on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But the moment I read Van Gogh’s letter I knew what art was, and the creative impulse. It is a feeling of love and enthusiasm for something, and in a direct, simple, passionate and true way, you try to show this beauty in things to others, by drawing it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And Van Gogh’s little drawing on the cheap note paper was a work of art because he loved the sky and the frail lamppost against it so seriously that he made the drawing with the most exquisite conscientiousness and care. </span></div>
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<i>~ Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit <span style="font-size: x-small;">(via <a href="http://lynnehoppe.tumblr.com/post/94503152768/when-van-gogh-was-a-young-man-in-his-early" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;">tumblr</span></a>)</span></i></div>
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june's not happy about the hot july weather... she remembers the mild, sunny days of, yeah, june... but it was the hot weather that made me stay inside and paint her, so maybe it's okay after all. ; )</div>
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i don't think i'm any better at drawing than i was a year ago, but i have learned a few important things. one of them is that my people/creatures like wings better than arms.</div>
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and hair - i'm just not into it. </div>
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i thought that once i learned how to draw it (how it sat on the head) i'd put it on every head i drew. </div>
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sometimes i do, but not often. and not so often with legs either.</div>
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these don't sound like big revelations, </div>
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but it's taken me a while to figure them out.</div>
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i've found myself thinking at times that i can't draw.</div>
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what could be a more ridiculous thought?!! but i've come to see that it takes practice to draw what i <i>feel</i>, in a way that makes me smile.</div>
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and this. it took me a long time to get this: i am a dabbler, a doodler, a jotter. i am not a drawer of big, complicated scenes; i like little glimpses... i am a messer arounder... </div>
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last week i got a .3 mechanical pencil and i love it for tiny details. otherwise i use a .5 mechanical pencil and a cretacolor 8B pencil. that's another thing i've learned: i like drawing with pencil best - not because i can erase, but because i can smudge.</div>
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<i>~ Georges Braque</i></div>
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my friends, i wish you a happy solstice ~ summer or winter... </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> “You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.”</span></div>
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<i>~ William S. Burroughs, quoted in interview, The Paris Review (Fall 1965)</i></div>
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it's been so long! it's not easy to narrow things down, sum them up! </div>
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i'll start with what i've been doing a lot of in my 'daily book', which is drawing/painting imaginary flowers,</div>
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and these people. </div>
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i call them 'simple people' because there isn't much to them, but still, a few lines can convey a lot.</div>
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it seems like a lifetime ago that i walked day after day on south facing ridges so i could smell the flowers on these bushes. i'd love it if someone could ID them for me - i have no idea what they're called! they smell like cinnamon buns with vanilla icing on top, and i will do just about anything to be out walking amongst them. </div>
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weeks - and many fragrant flowers - later, i'm entranced with a small patch of mountain lady's slippers. this is the first time i've seen them here, and i visit them almost every day. they smell like baby powder...</div>
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for all of them i used a mechanical pencil and prismacolor colored pencils.<br />
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i've also been taking a small watercolor set with me and painting what i see. first i draw with pencil without erasing; if i don't like a line, i draw another i like better. and then i paint it without being too particular about accuracy. that way it stays fun, and i've loved doing it.</div>
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the arrow is pointing to the little watercolor book drying in the sun, and my watercolor set is in front of the chair, but what i wanted to show you is the chair. it's made by REI, and it's called a <a href="http://www.rei.com/product/829239/rei-flex-lite-chair#descriptionTab" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">'flex lite' chair</span></b></a>. it weighs 1 lb. 12 oz., and it's super duper!! if you're interested in a lightweight hiking/camping chair, check it out...</div>
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one more thing... i took the table out of my tiny art room and made it into a place where i can sit and draw/paint/read. it came to me one day that i've *never* liked sitting at a table to work, so why did i have a table in my art room?! crazy... i really love it the way it is now.<br />
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seen this morning - a gold beetle! whoa! </div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">~ Pablo Picasso <span style="font-size: x-small;">(via <a href="http://lynnehoppe.tumblr.com/post/87959755443/the-artist-is-a-receptacle-for-emotions-that-come" target="_blank">tumblr</a>)</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>'coral' ~ watercolors, gouache, graphite, gesso, and oil pastel on book page - approx. 5" x 7"</i></span></div>
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i'm still painting with watercolors more or less effortlessly... sometimes adding oil pastel and gouache - or watercolors right out of the tube, which is what all the green is around coral. </div>
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i abandoned the moleskine daily planner and started a new 'daily book' in one of <a href="http://www.dickblick.com/products/hand-book-artist-journals/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">these</span></b></a>... it was too frustrating not to be able to use watercolors in the planner. i'll rip out the pages i drew on (in the planner) when i'm done with this book, and stick them together. </div>
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inspired by<a href="http://www.pritistudio.com/2014/04/starry-nights-and-sunflowers.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;"> Lisa DiNunzio's </span></b></a>van gogh paintings... and of course looking really *nothing* like vincent's, but so much fun to try.</div>
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on a completely different subject, did you see the lunar eclipse last night? whoa! i'm still under the spell of the starry sky and deep orange moon! i'm thinking about how i want to have a tripod ready for the next one in october.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"To keep your process flowing, to feel the enjoyment of creation, you first need to go where it is easy. Easy means ripe. Go where you are attracted, whether it be toward a detail or a large shape. While you work on the part that is easy, other parts will mature in you, and they will be ready and waiting. You move step by step, from the easiest to the easiest. It is never tedious or tiring because there is no need to force anything. Depth resides more in surrendering to spontaneity that in hardworking struggle.</span></div>
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<i>~ 'Life, Paint and Passion', Michele Cassou and Stewart Cubley</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>'lavinia' ~ acrylic paint on hardboard, 5" x 7"</i></span></div>
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underneath lavinia lies almost all of the painting that i did for two weeks. beneath her are two others that i spent hours - *days* on! i have *glared* at this piece of hardboard, ha! </div>
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i don't remember exactly, but i think lavinia was finished for a few days before i had any interest in painting again. then one night i woke up and decided to paint in a little watercolor book that had a few blank pages left in it. i looked at some of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Henry-Miller--The-Paintings-Centennial-Retrospective/dp/0960055428/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1395903011&sr=8-2&keywords=henry+miller+paintings" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">henry miller's paintings</span></b></a> before i started, and then i painted what came to me.</div>
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houses, plants, and more houses... </div>
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the small watercolor journal that is now finished. i started it in 2010...</div>
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it was beautiful every day last week so i was out walking. at this time of year i'm mostly looking for wet weather streams; they're one of my absolute favorite things. i like to walk beside them, knowing that in a few weeks they'll be gone.</div>
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and tiny bones excavated from an owl pellet...</div>
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i think of last summer as the 'rust summer' because i found so many rusty cans for drawing on, but this spring/summer is off to a good start! </div>
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last fall i resolved to buy a good daypack - one with a hip belt and one that did *not* make my back sweaty! i was determined to save up for one, no matter what, but i didn't have to because my sister gave me the pack that i wanted. it's a mira 26, by <a href="http://www.ospreypacks.com/en/group/womens_1/mira_series" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">osprey</span></b></a>, and i've named her ruth. she makes walking even better...</div>
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before i go, a couple of artists that have inspired me lately... <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanoooo/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">takatoshi sano</span></b></a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pabloauladellillustrator" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">pablo auladell</span></b></a>. <br />
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<i>~ Henry Miller, 'To Paint is to Love Again'</i></div>
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i was on a terrific parakeet kick for a few days... </div>
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inspired by <a href="http://lisagrahamart.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">lisa graham's</span></b></a> rooms i painted this. oh good grief! it felt like way too much work! i have a new-found respect for painters of rooms...</div>
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of course i went right back to faces. i never think of them as work... </div>
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from my daily planner and the charvin journal.</div>
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this is what the charvin journal looks like. <a href="http://kathydorfer.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">kathy</span></b></a> brought it back from france for me, but you can buy them <a href="http://www.charvin-arts.com/product17.php" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">online</span></b></a> - although i'm not sure that any are *exactly* like this one. the paper is wonderfully smooth and (the best part) heavy enough so that you can't see through the paper <i>at all</i>, even when you use dark colors or press down hard.</div>
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drawn yesterday on a piece of bone i found, brought home and sanded (320 grit, i think), then taken out again so i could draw on it.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>'lil' ~ acrylic paint, fabric, and marks all pencil in old book, 4" x 6"</i></span></div>
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i started out last week painting acrylic faces, but became so frustrated that i switched to doodling simple girls in pencil.... one day i drew a puffy skirt (like lil's wearing), and then i was off drawing folk art girls inspired by <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=laurie+meseroll&client=firefox-a&hs=Aob&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=sb&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ei=mlQAU_vsEMnvoATaw4HwAQ&ved=0CCUQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=475" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">laurie meseroll</span></b></a>. i dearly love laurie's paintings...</div>
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before that, endless messing... i was unhappy with the right side of belle's face so i covered it up with white paint, which was much better. also i tried *many* variations of lips before finding one she liked! </div>
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next i painted madge, and she gave me no trouble... as with the other faces, i used my fingers, a palette knife, and <a href="http://www.dickblick.com/products/blick-scrubber-brushes/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>scrubber brushes</b></span></a>. i really *love* scrubber brushes. thank you<a href="http://lisagrahamart.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;"> lisa</span></b></a> for telling me about them!</div>
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this was the last face i painted before i went off on the folk girl track; i got <i>completely</i> stuck on this one; just could not find my way to a happy ending. so, after a ridiculous number of layers i gave up. notice i tried The White Paint On One Side Of The Face Trick to no avail... if she weren't on a fragile old book page i'd scrape a lot of the paint off and see what showed up, but since i can't, i'll leave her as is. </div>
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i distract myself frequently with colored pencil drawings - it's fun, it's easy! some of these drawings were inspired by katherine dunn's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Illustration-Workshop-Mixed-Media-Artists/dp/1592536360/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1392531969&sr=8-1&keywords=creative+illustration+workshop" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">'creative illustration workshop'</span></b></a>. i'm crazy about that book...</div>
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bits from my <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Moleskine-Planner-Horizontal-Planners-Datebooks/dp/8866136085/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1392532120&sr=8-8&keywords=moleskine+calendar+2014+weekly" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">moleskine weekly planner</span></b></a>... since the space for each day is about 3" x 5", i usually draw small so i can fit a bunch in. the girl on the far right is a little over 1" tall; if you're a small face drawer you know that getting the lips right can be challenging. you need a very sharp point on your colored pencil... </div>
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i now use prismacolor <a href="http://www.dickblick.com/products/prismacolor-verithin-pencils/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000;">verithin pencils</span></b></a> for tiny lips... they're hard and they keep a sharp point for a long time... i *need* deco pink and orange!</div>
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i went away on a big adventure for a month, and now i'm back... i drew every day while i was gone, but by the time i got home i <i>really</i> wanted to paint messy. so that's what i did with 'cornelia' and 'loraine'... </div>
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but little by little i'm beginning to see how the shoulder falls or the foot sits...</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>pencil and watercolor pencils in stillman and birn 'gamma'</i></span></div>
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it's not as agonizingly difficult as it used to be.</div>
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and i don't want to draw perfect figures, but i do want to know how the parts of the body relate to one another.</div>
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i've tried learning from books and that goes nowhere. practice seems the only answer.</div>
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my new favorite drawing thing is a 2014 moleskine daily calendar/planner. i love this! </div>
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these two pages are last week... for someone who likes to draw small, it's perfect. :)</div>
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