Fun Ideas for Your Watercolor Journal
In the summer issue of PAGES magazine, I give you another fun idea for how to add interest to your watercolor journal. This article is about how to use black gesso. I hope you enjoy trying this cool technique!
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A Treasure Hunt!
Artful Gathering Online Art Retreat is hosting a blog hop treasure hunt starting today, April 2, 2014! Today is the first day of the treasure hunt and my blog has one of the secret words you will need to solve the final puzzle. There are many prizes to win and the grand prize is a free workshop of your choice!
To learn how the treasure hunt works and to see the prizes please visit Artful Gathering Online Art Retreat. If you would like to sign up for the NEWSLETTER, you will get weekly updates on where to find the next treasure hunt words. 
This is my second year teaching watercolor classes with this unique online workshop. You will paint along with me in the comfort of your own home with my personalized videos.
This year I am teaching two workshops: Watercolor Toolbox and Watercolor Fun. Watercolor Toolbox is perfect for someone that wants to start watercolor painting. Watercolor Fun will take your watercolor painting skills to the next level.So start your treasure hunt here on my blog page. Look for the secret word. I hope you have fun and will keep my fingers crossed that you win the free workshop grand prize!
Playing with Water-Soluble Pens
Those of you that have watched my DVD, know that I love to play with water-soluble pens. I don’t think that I can pass up a good looking pen. I have so many that I really can’t keep track of them. I have been playing around with water-soluble pens for an article that will be in the 2014 summer issue of the PAGES magazine. To organize my pens, I made examples of each one in my watercolor journal. Do you have a pen you love? What is your favorite pen to use in your journals? How do you organize your pens?
Learning about Color
Here are a few things that we will be learning about in my CREATE class Rainbow Studies
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| We will do some color mixing making these fun color chickens |
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| Here is how I use the color wheel to pick my colors |
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| We will make some color studies |
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| Using the colors on your palette we will make a color wheel |
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| Pears are a great way to do color studies |
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| Textured backgrounds add life to the paintings |
Watercolor Lesson – Creating Colorful Darks, Part 3
At this point, I have started to add the leaves of the flowers and the shadows that the flowers have cast onto the stone wall. I have also added a shadow on the right side of the window facing. Notice too that I have lifted the window inside the dark area. – Almost done!
Watercolor Lesson – Creating Colorful Darks – Part 1
Watercolor Lesson – Creating Colorful Darks – Part 2
The Dog Ate my Homework!
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I have been busy writing an article for ClothPaper Scissors STUDIOS Magazine about my studio. It is an interesting concept to peek inside the artist’s life and see where they create. It made me reaffirm how lucky I am to have such a beautiful, private space to call my own. I thought the photos for the article would be easy and writing the article would be the hard part. Well it turns out that the article was fun to write and the photos have been a nightmare! I cleaned and reorganized and now my studio has never looked better! The awful thing was – you have heard “my dog ate my homework”, well my little Olive stole my camera card. Not just my camera card but also my video card as well as I have been making an online video for Artful Gathering.
I had to be a detective to try to recoup my cards and think like a dog. I set a decoy piece of plastic next to my computer yesterday and watched from the other room. Sure enough she grabbed and hightailed (literally) out the doggie door. I followed her outside and around the house and low and behold there was the video card lying in the grass. Unfortunately I still have not found the camera card. We have about an acre for the dogs to roam. And darn it there were some pretty good photos on that card!
