#SBS #WatercolorRules Week 1 Homework: Bag O' Apples

Watercolor Rules!

Sketchbook Skool Klass

Week 1

Homework: paint a paper bag with cherries. Didn't have any cherries, but did have some colorful apples! 

Laughed out loud when the instructor mentioned using the mixing area of the palette. There's suppose to be a clean mixing area?

Had to dig deep in the closet to find this!

Ready to paint!

No pre-sketching with pencil! Just start right in with the watercolors!

Built up the texture on the paper bag with several layers of color.

Had lots of fun putting all those wrinkles on the bag and bright colors on the apple. After all that work, I didn't put in much of a background.

Pumpin' Up the Color Volume...

Art and Oatmeal with peaches and a purple bowl. I painted the plant on the bottom during oatmeal a few days ago.  Afterwards, while flipping through the journal, I thought that it looked a little too washed out for my taste. So I decided to pump up the color . Picture me dancing and gyrating about the kitchen with flailing arms to the tune of "Pump Up the Jam." On second thought, don't.

The two sketches are the same one. It's just that the one on the top was taken after I went over it with some Peerless Watercolors from New York.

This is Joanne Sharpe's Palette. Love the colors!