Mixed Media Fall Bouquet - The last of the garden flowers.

Watercolors, gouache, and ink to capture the last of the garden flowers.

Art Process:

I pulled the large watercolor palette out of the closet for this page. First layer of color.

Decided to add gouache to the background. Love this blue aqua!

I liked the background so I used more gouache on the flowers and leaves.

I also added Sakura Black Glaze Pen and Dr. Ph Martin's Bleedproof White Ink with a dippy pen to add shadows and highlights. I like the liveliness of lines!

Full journal page in Strathmore 400 Series Wirebound Watercolor Journal.

#SBS #WatercolorRules Week 3 Mixing Watercolor & Gouache

Watercolor Rules!

Sketchbook Skool Klass

Week 3 with August Wren

My process started with a #10 Round Watercolor Brush.

Wet variegated watercolor wash: Cadmium Red, Yellow, and Orange; Burnt Sienna, Raw Sienna, Mineral Violet, and Indian Yellow.

After the wash dried, I doodled with Noodler's Bulletproof Black ink and dip pen.

Pumpkin doodle from the imagination.

Next, I selected a limited palette of gouache: Olive Green, Raw Sienna, Flesh Tint, Indian Yellow, Quinacridone Violet, Coral, Titanium White.

Gouache over watercolor:

Colored pencil palette: Derwent Coloursoft Pencils - White, Blue C330, Deep Cadmium C040. Prismacolor Pencils - Indigo Blue, Purple, Olive Green, Dark Umber 756, Scarlet Red.

Love to scribble!

Close up.

More black ink and a touch of Dr. Ph Martin's Bleedproof white ink.

#30Pages30Days Page 21 March 21 Thoughts are Clouds, I am the sky. Part 2

This cloud page has "store bought" and hand made collage elements and stamps. The red clouds were painted 50 years ago when I was in high school and the stamp was made yesterday.

#30Pages30Days Page 21 March 21

Sktchy Challenge: composing a  journal page.

Not my usual color scheme! Personal journaling and collage in Jane Davenport Canvas Journal.

Egads! I just ripped up a page that I had been saving for 50 years! Oh, my. Watch it here!

#30Pages30Days Page 20 March 20 The Lion and the March Hare

Happy Spring!

#30Pages30Days Page 20 March 20

Sktchy Challenge 

It's the first day of spring and I am sitting here looking out the window at the snow flying by! We are preparing for our 4th Nor'easter this month of March. I wanted to do a quick journal page to remember the day.

I chose a Lion to represent the Nor'easter Storm since "March comes in like a lion." And the March Hare to depict how the spring keeps getting chased off.

Graphite sketch, Lamy pen, Neocolour II Crayons, Derwent Coloursoft Pencils, Pentel Brush Pen, and Micron Pen in Jane Davenport Canvas Journal.

Art process video: 

Art Journal Flip #10

Narrated Art Journal Flip of my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal #10!



Nature journaling, flights of fantasy, and just plain old mixed media fun!

In Pink Bunny P.J's Sharing Rabbit Sketches

Thanks, Carla for sharing your rabbit paintings! 

Here are a few of mine:

The Making of Dancing Rabbit:

Achieving Interesting TOPOGRAPHY: 4 items I use for texture

 

Working to finish a project on canvas by rolling air drying Crayola Model Magic into "seeds". I will use Matte Medium to fix them to the canvas and then paint them with acrylics.

  

  

I used cheesecloth, white wrapping tissue paper, and corrugated cardboard to create other textures on the canvas. 

Short video to explain my  process:

Art Journal Flip #4

Narrated Art Journal Flip of my #4 Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal.

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Art Journal Process: Crystal Geode Tunnel Pages

Creating "Tunnel Pages" in my journal:

I started with tearing a rough rock shape into the page. Then traced around the hole. When I tore the second hole, I made sure to leave a border showing. Lastly, I traced the second hole onto the third page.

I drew the outside of the geode around the first hole and used Daniel Smith Watercolors to paint it in. Primatek colors granulate nicely and look super on rocks. The geode is a green color called Jadeite Genuine.

On the second page, I used Acrylic Matte Medium to glue down pieces of real mica to represent the finer crystal inner layer of the geode. 

On the third page, I painted the amethyst crystals with watercolors and added just a touch of Stickles for sparkle!

I finished off the geode with a miner Gnome inspired by the book Watercolor Fairies (see link below). I used Ranger Distress Markers to color him in.

The face on the Celtic Tree is peeking through the tunnel page.

Art Supplies to play with:

Art Journal Flip #5

Art Journal Flip #5

Narrated Art Journal Flip #5. Watercolors, ink, collage, acrylics, and more in a Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal.

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Art Supplies:

Art Journal Flip #7

Narrated flip through my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal #7.

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A Disaster turned into "A Summer Garden Journal Page"

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I was just happily engaged with gesso and acrylics and other art supplies too numerous to even remember, when I decided to dry the page with a heat tool.....

... everything started to crack and buckle and peel off. You can just see a touch of it in the page gutter.

I didn't take any pictures at the time... I was too busy trying to figure out what to do to save the page!

I scraped and painted and scraped and tried more paint and just kept going until eventually things started to stick to the page.

There's still a few spots that want to peel away... but I am happy with the quality of the black ink lines!

Gesso, acrylic paint, and "too many different products that probably shouldn't be used together" in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal.