sketching – Jacqueline Newbold

Cover Art for Art Journaling,

March 20, 2014 Artist

I was so surprised and honored to find out that my art was chosen to be the cover art for the spring 2014 issue of ART JOURNALING magazine!

It will be on in stores available for purchase on April 1, 2014. My article is about using shape to design journal pages.
This photo did not get into the article so I wanted to share it with you here. Here is what I write about this page in my Patagonia watercolor journal.

One of my favorite journal pages is one where I painted a meadowlark and a vista behind him. The meadowlarks were plentiful and darted about the brush flashing their red bellies. I often heard their melody as we hiked. Instead of just painting a scene with a meadowlark in it, I wanted to try a different point of view. I painted him much larger than the vista and had him placed off to one side to help frame the page. He is looking back over landscape as if to say he is the guardian of this remote area.

I hope you enjoy this new issue of Art Journaling!

http://stampington.com/Art-Journaling-Spring-2014

Here is a Fun Warm-up Exercise

March 6, 2014 Artist

Here is the post that I did for this month’s Sketchbook challenge.
Warm and cool colors are something that I think about all the time in my painting and enjoy playing warm colors against cool colors to create vibrate and dynamic watercolors. Here is a fun exercise that you could do with warm colors or cool colors – your choice! I did mine with warm colors. You will need your watercolor paints, watercolor brushes and a Gold Leaf Pen for this exercise.
Start by drawing big shapes in your journal with the gold leaf pen. I drew my initials JN. Make sure you go off the page here and there.

Then add smaller shapes within your large initials.

Pick a color scheme warm or cool. I chose a warm palette so I painted all my shapes with yellows, oranges, reds and combinations of these colors. The gold leaf pen lines will act as a resist to the paint.