Artist – Page 5 – Jacqueline Newbold

New Watercolor Find!

March 5, 2019 Artist

I am excited to share with you a new watercolor find! It is a tiny paint palette. I don’t know how this guy does it, but he creates a 3D print out of a tiny watercolor palette that fits in a tin the size of the Altoid tins. It is a single piece so all those annoying things that happened with the loose half pans are no longer a problem. One of the big issues was that some of the pans would fall out. People tried sticky tape, magnets, and/or hot glue. With this design, this problem has been solved!

If you like to travel light and take along a watercolor palette, then you may want to get one of these for yourself! I contacted him on Facebook. He was very responsive and quick. I ordered 2 and paid him $30 through PayPal – that included the shipping for 2 of these neat little palettes. They are made of a very sturdy plastic-type material. And honestly, it is amazing that he can “print” these out!

If you are interested, contact Steve at his facebook marketplace:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/179231272929069/

If you would like to see other reviews that I did on watercolor paint palettes, check out my previous blog posts:

Watercolor Palette Review, PART 1

Watercolor Palette Review – Part 2

New Watercolor Palette!

Art & Soul, Portland, 2019

February 11, 2019 Artist

I always enjoy preparing for the workshops that I teach at Art & Soul, Portland, 2019! This year I am offering some brand new classes. On Tuesday, March 12, 2019, I am teaching a watercolor workshop called The Painted Garden. We will be painting some gorgeous flowers! These are fun, loose, and colorful. I often turn some of these little gems into cards that are for sale at the Red Chair Gallery in Bend, Oregon.

I enjoy sharing my passion for painting and watercolor painting and mixed-media art journaling by teaching in her Art in My Heart private studio, the Art & Soul Retreats in Portland, Oregon, France, and Italy. My next overseas workshop is with French Escapade in Provence, France, May 2019. There are just a couple spots left in this workshop!

My paintings and mixed-media art journals have been featured in magazines and books such as Somerset Studio’s Art Journaling, Interweave Press’s Cloth Paper Scissors, Studios, as well as the Cloth, Paper Scissors Book and Splash 17, the Best of Watercolor.

ART AND SOUL, PORTLAND, OREGON 2019

Here is a list of the workshops that I am teaching at the Portland Art & Soul Retreat

Portland 2019 Art & Soul Retreat
The Painted Garden – Tuesday, March 12, 2019
A Naturalist’s Art Journal – Wednesday, March 13, 2019
A Colorful Palette – Thursday, March 14, 2019
Loosen Up Landscapes – Friday, March 15, 2019

Jacqueline is a member of the Watercolor Society of Oregon, and the High Desert Art League. She teaches watercolor workshops locally, nationally as well as leading painting workshops in France and Italy. She has several articles published in the mixed-media magazine, Cloth-Paper-Scissors about creating art while on your journey. Jacqueline has partnered with Daniel Smith Art Supplies to create a watercolor traveling kit. Her self-published book, Watercolor Journeys is a helpful guide for beginning to advanced watercolor enthusiasts and her workshop DVD with Interweave has just been released: Art Journals On-The-Go: How to pack, prep, paint, and more.

Give your love ones a Heart Watercolor Painting

February 6, 2019 Artist

Start with a piece of watercolor paper (I use 140 lb Arches paper) torn to the size you want.
Tape your paper to a workable surface around each edge using a removable painter’s tape.
Paint a colorful watercolor wash and let this dry. I used new Gamboge, permanent rose, permanent magenta and cerulean blue.
With a pencil, draw some heart shapes, some large, some small. Overlap some hearts. Negative paint around each heart. This means you paint the background around the hearts, creating heart shapes in your painting. Let this dry.
Draw a few more hearts and negative paint again around all the hearts. You can negative paint these hearts several times to make a rich, glowing background. Painting over your last layer is called watercolor glazing.
Glazing and negative painting

Here are some fun ideas for Valentine’s Day Love!

Now decorate the hearts in fun ways: polka dots, checks, stripes. You can either use watercolor or colored pens and markers or a mix of both! Have fun, doodle, think of your loved one. Here is your opportunity to put a smile on their face! PUT A BIRD ON IT!
With an ink pen, draw around your hearts and outline the tape before pulling it off the edges.

Finding Hearts of Italy

January 18, 2019 Artist

Hearts of Italy

While traveling and painting in Italy this fall, I started noticing hearts on the ironwork that adorns the windows of Venice and other towns and villages. Once I noticed them, I was finding hearts everywhere. They were beautifully blended on doorways, windows, and etched into the stones. I took some photos that I wanted to share with you. The more I looked, the more I found.

Painting in Italy

Jacqueline Newbold’s color-filled watercolor paintings capture a moment in time – sunlight on red poppies, the glow of a Tuscan village perched on a mountaintop, or the brilliance of a dramatic Oregon Cascade Mountain sunset. Jacqueline loves to share her passion for watercolor painting and mixed-media art journaling by teaching in her Art in My Heart private studio, the Art & Soul Retreats in Portland, Oregon, France, and Italy. She teaches private watercolor lessons, classes, and workshops in her private art studio in Bend, Oregon. Her next overseas workshop is with French Escapade in Provence, France, May 2019. Her paintings and mixed-media art journals have been featured in magazines and books such as Somerset Studio’s Art Journaling, Interweave Press’s Cloth Paper Scissors, Studios, as well as the Cloth, Paper Scissors Book and Splash 17, the Best of Watercolor.

ART AND SOUL, PORTLAND, OREGON 2019

I am teaching at the Portland 2019 Art & Soul Retreat
The Painted Garden – Tuesday, March 12, 2019
A Naturalist’s Art Journal – Wednesday, March 13, 2019
A Colorful Palette – Thursday, March 14, 2019
Loosen Up Landscapes – Friday, March 15, 2019

Watercolor Workshop Provence, France

December 31, 2018 Artist

Watercolor Workshop Provence, France

So often my students and artist friends ask me to teach again in France because they would like to join me. Here is your chance! I am teaching a watercolor workshop Provence, France, May 11 – 17, 2019. If you have been considering joining me, I want to encourage you to sign up for this workshop with French Escapade. Because I want to spend more time painting in my studio, this is the last workshop that I have planned for quite a while. I will miss painting in Europe but look forward to studio time.

I am very excited about this French watercolor workshop! The time of year is a spectacular time to be in the south of France. The fields will be covered with wild, red poppies. The town that we are staying in is charming and scenic. It is the source of an impressive spring that gushes from the ground and creates a beautiful, emerald-green river.

What I love about Provence, is that every village nearby is all unique and delightful in very individual ways. It is easy to get to picturesque towns such as Gordes, St. Remy de Provence, or Les Baux, with just a short drive. We will spend the whole day painting, exploring, and creating fun memories in our sketchbooks. Our evenings will be relaxing, tasting French wine and dining on delicious treats from the local markets. French Escapade will take very good care of us!

Look at these colorful photos below of Provence, France. Each one could be a beautiful, painted scene in our watercolor journals!

I have some very fun ideas and lesson plans for us to paint in our watercolor art journals.

Finding Inspiration to Paint watercolor paintings — Wildflowers and Poppies

Inside my Watercolor Journal – St. Remy de Provence

Treat yourself to a very special, fun, relaxing time painting in Provence, France! There are just a couple spots still available for this fabulous trip.

2019 Schedule

Painting workshop in France in 2019

Click this link for detailed information about this wonderful trip to France: LET’S GO! – FRANCE May 10-17, 2019, with French Escape!

Painting Colorful and Bright in 2019!

December 28, 2018 Artist

I am thinking of starting out the New Year with a personal challenge of doing some quick, fun, colorful, simple, daily painting in my watercolor journal. Does anyone want to join me? Creating small daily watercolor sketches is a great way to get inspired. It is a great way to warm up to a larger painting.

Here are the Pixie Girls that come to my studio to inspire me to paint…. they are here to welcome in the NEW YEAR! They are saying, “Let’s get painting!”

What is new for 2019? Here is a wonderful trip planned to Provence, France. Do you want to join me?

Watercolor art painting workshops with Jacqueline Newbold

2019 Schedule

Painting workshop in France in 2019

Click this link for detailed information about this wonderful trip to France: LET’S GO! – FRANCE May 10-17, 2019, with French Escape!

Join me for this wonderful watercolor, art workshop in France. We will be on an artistic journey of creative expression! Our home base will be a charming medieval village in Provence, as we have fun creating beautiful art in our watercolor journals.

Jacqueline Newbold, Art Journal, watercolor painting using one color — Inside my Watercolor Art Journal

Barb's Beautiful Journal — Barb’s Beautiful Journal

You will learn to incorporate watercolor and mixed-media techniques as we spend a magical time together exploring the area, rich with sights, sounds, and colors – all wonderful inspiration for developing your artistic eye. Our host will be frenchescapade.com. They will provide many delicious meals cooked by a French chef and transportation to painting sites. We will stay in a charming hotel with a little river meandering through the garden, an outside swimming pool, a hot tub, and a riverside terrace bar all surrounded by impressive mountains. This workshop is available for all levels – beginners and experienced artists are all invited to come along on this delightful trip!

Wishing you a Merry Christmas!

December 24, 2018 Artist

Wishing you a Merry Christmas!

Wishing you a merry Christmas! It is a beautiful time of year. With the holiday upon us, it is sometimes hard to find time to paint. It is fun to paint watercolor Christmas cards. Here is a painting that I painted of two birds sitting on a branch with a snowy look. I sprinkled white gouache into the watercolor paint while it was drying in order to get the effect that it is snowing. I sprinkled more white gouache on the painting after the painting was dry. That way some of the gouache spread and softened, while the drier gouache made smaller looking drops of gouache.

To finish, I added white gouache on top of the berries and on top of the branches to give the look of snow piling up. I hope you enjoy this little Christmasy watercolor painting!

Artist Jacqueline Newbold enjoys painting life in color!

Her color-filled watercolor paintings capture a moment in time – sunlight on red poppies, the glow of a Tuscan village perched on a mountaintop, or the brilliance of a dramatic Oregon Cascade Mountain sunset. Jacqueline loves to share her passion for watercolor painting and mixed-media art journaling by teaching in her Art in My Heart private studio, the Art Unraveled Art Retreats in Phoenix, the Art & Soul Retreats in Portland, Oregon, France, and Italy. She teaches private watercolor lessons, classes and workshops in her private art studio in Bend, Oregon.

My next teaching trip is to Provence, France, May 2019. You can find out more information about the trip with French Escapade. Join me for a fun time!! You will be able to create a journal just like my Italian watercolor and art journal!

More from My Italian Watercolor and Art Journal

November 21, 2018 Artist

Painting in my Italian watercolor and art journal

Sometimes it is not so easy to sit, relax, and paint while on vacation. That is why if you like to paint on location, it is best to go with like-minded artists. I did most of the painting in my Italian watercolor and art journal while teaching in Italy. We had so much fun exploring the quaint, historic, and charming villages of Umbria and Tuscany. I did manage to paint a few more pages in my journal after the class as well. But it was easier to do while in the workshop. I wanted to share with you more of the pages from the art class.

Artist Jacqueline Newbold enjoys painting life in color!

“Art journaling to me is not so much about making art but recording my life in a colorful way. My journals are a place where I can experiment with different art mediums, sort things out, write about my life, my sorrows, my adventures, and travels. I play with color, sketch, doodle, take notes, make lists, add inspiring quotes and write about my day. The process is fun, and I love when the result surprises me.”

From my Italy Journal

November 15, 2018 Artist

From my Italy Journal

I wanted to show you how I go from photo, to sketch, to painting using my watercolor journal.

Here are some pages from my Italy journal. I drew the sketch from a quaint street scene in Oriveto, Italy. Here is a photo of my inspiration:

After I took this photo, I used it to create a sketch. I showed my students an easy way to use a drawing program on my tablet. This helped to get the perspective correct. It also helped to get the placement of the buildings. Here is my sketch:

From this sketch, I was able to create a watercolor painting in my journal. Here is the journal painting:

Watercolor Painting of Orvieto Street

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Artist Jacqueline Newbold enjoys painting life in color! Her color-filled watercolor paintings capture a moment in time. She loves to paint the sunlight on red poppies, the glow of a Tuscan village perched on a mountaintop, and the brilliance of a dramatic Oregon Cascade Mountain sunset. Jacqueline loves to share her passion for watercolor painting and mixed-media art journaling by teaching in her Art in My Heart private studio, the Art Unraveled Art Retreats in Phoenix, the Art & Soul Retreats in Portland, Oregon, France, and Italy. She teaches private watercolor lessons, classes, and workshops in her private art studio in Bend, Oregon.

Check out my new article in Cloth, Paper, Scissors Magazine, A New Twist on Pen & Ink

November 14, 2018 Artist

My article,”A New Twist on Pen & Ink“, is in the latest issue of Cloth, Paper, Scissor.

My article,”A New Twist on Pen & Ink“, is in the latest issue of Cloth, Paper, Scissor. It is available for purchase now. It is about how I add pen and ink to my watercolor paintings. I give many examples from my journal paintings.

Unfortunately, I am sorry to say, that this is supposedly the last issue of CPS! This magazine has been a great inspiration to me as a budding artist. I remember how timid I was about submitting my first article in 2008. It was accepted and published in 2009. I was ecstatic! It encouraged me to continue along my artistic journey! That was the same year that I took a group of artist to paint in Provence, France. Boy, did we have fun! I encourage you to write letters to the publishers, F& W to ask for the magazine to continue. I think it is the only one that meets our watercolor and mixed media needs.

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