#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.

What's on my mind? September 7, 2018 Lady's Thumb...

What's on my mind?

Lots of this dainty pink flower blooming now. (Distinguished from Smartweed by the pubescence on the top of the ocrea).

Full Spread. Watercolors and Micron pen in my Jane Davenport Canvas Journal.

September 4, 2018 Tuesday is "Mars"day.

What's on my mind?

It's Tuesday evening. The bright red "star" in the southeast sky is actually the planet Mars. Mars in the sign of energy, action, and desire. 

A soul just new to the world today will be active, brave, enthusiastic, inpatient, courageous, and sometimes just a bit too fiery!

Full spread. Watercolor and Micron pen in my Jane Davenport Canvas Journal.

What's on my mind? September 5, 2018 Pink Pond Lilies...

What's on my mind?

This has been the summer of pink lilies at the frog pond.

Feel her optimistic spirit of all that is true and beautiful in the world. Receive peace, good fortune and enlightenment.

Full page spread done in watercolor and Micron pen in my Jane Davenport Canvas Journal.

September 6, 2018 What's on my mind? Stormy Florence...

What's on my mind?

Stormy Florence blossoms as she dances across the Atlantic.

Full Spread. Watercolors and Sakura Glaze pen with Schmineke Pale Gold dry gouache in my Jane Davenport Canvas Journal.

What's on my mind? September 4, 2018 The Moon at noon...

What's on my mind?

Consolarlunarity: 

 When the sun and moon are both visible in the sky during the day.

Consolarlunarity

Just because it's a common experience, it still deserves a name. Other common experiences have names. It's not uncommon to see the sunshine while there's a shower and that has a name, sun shower. So why shouldn't seeing the sun and the moon together in the sky have a name? Couldn't find one anywhere on the webber-net, so I had to make one up.

Consolarlunarity

Just a quick entry at the bottom of September 2nd and 3rd. Watercolors and Micron pen in my Jane Davenport Canvas Journal.

What's on my mind? September 2, 2018 The Sunflower Experience

What's on my mind?

Driving through the Lehigh Valley and caught a glimpse of Grim's Family Farm Sunflower Experience from the highway. Thought it might be a good place to sketch but the admission was $10 so I just doodled some sunflowers on the page when I got home.

Watercolor and Micron pen in my Jane Davenport Canvas Journal.

What's on my mind? September 1, 2018 The start of the meteorological autumn...

What's on my mind?

Family picnic in the pine grove along the Farmington River, People's Forest, Connecticut.

These trees were TALL!

Started coloring this page with colored pencil while riding in the car. Later added some watercolor. Watercolor, colored pencil, Micron pen in my Jane Davenport Canvas Journal.

What's on my mind? August 31, 2018 Tall yellow Prairie Coneflower

 What's on my mind?

This Prairie Coneflower growing next to the walkway at the Connecticut Condo is over 5 feet tall! Watercolor and Micron pen in my Jane Davenport Canvas Journal.

Full Spread

What's on my mind? August 29, 2018 Nature's paint brush...

What's on my mind?

Found a dark red Tupelo (Black Gum) leaf on the ground in the back yard. Both the Tupelo tree and the dragonfly on the August 30th journal page are Water Signs. The Sugar Maples in Connecticut have already been touched by Nature's paint brush: yellow, orange, and red. The Maple Tree holds the wisdom of balance, promise, and practical magic.