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The Sketchbook Challenge September Blog Hop

The Sketchbook Challenge September Blog Hop

The first ever Sketchbook Challenge blog hop is about to start!
The sketchbook challenge hosts have a surprise for you.  For the next 21 days we are celebrating this months Houses and Hideaways theme with a blog hop!  Each day, you’ll find a new post on this blog related to this month’s theme that will also include a link to the artist’s own blog, where you’ll find tutorials, video’s, studio tours, exciting giveaways and more!  
Take a look at the line up of posts below and come back each day to be inspired!
Sept 9 – Gina Lee Kim http://ginaleekim.blogspot.com/
Sept 10- Me 🙂 -> Jacqueline Newbold http://djnewbold.blogspot.com/ 
Sept 11 – Sue Bleiweiss http://www.suebleiweiss.com/blog  
Sept 12 – Jackie Bowcutt http://stitchworks-jackie.blogspot.com/
Sept 13th – Kristin La Flamme http://kristinlaflamme.com/musings  
Sept 15- Lyric Kinard http://lyrickinard.blogspot.com/
Sept 16 – Terry Grant http://www.andsewitgoes.blogspot.com/
Sept 17- Carol Sloan http://www.carolbsloan.blogspot.com/ 
Sept 18- Leslie Tucker Jenison http://leslietuckerjenison.blogspot.com/  
Sept 19 – Lesley Riley  http://www.lesleyriley.com/weblog/  
Sept 20 – Traci Bunkers  https://www.tracibunkers.com/blog/  
Sept 21 – Lynn Krawczyk http://smudgedtextilesstudio.com/blog/
Sept 22 Desiree Habicht  http://myclothesline.blogspot.com
Sept 23 – Jamie Fingal http://jamiefingaldesigns.blogspot.com/  
Sept 24 – Mary Beth Shaw http://mbshaw.blogspot.com/ 
Sept 25 –Kari McKnight-Holbrook http://backporchartessa.blogspot.com/  
Sept 26 – Deborah Boschert http://deborahsjournal.blogspot.com/  
Sept 27- Susan Brubaker Knapp http://wwwbluemoonriver.blogspot.com/  
Sept 28- Laura Cater Woods http://www.cater-woods.com/weblog/  
Sept 29- Jane LaFazio http://janeville.blogspot.com/   

Joining the Sketchbook Challenge Team!

Joining the Sketchbook Challenge Team!

I am thrilled that I have been asked to join the Sketchbook Challenge Team!  Here is an exert from my first post.  Why not read the whole post at: http://sketchbookchallenge.blogspot.com/

I love taking my watercolor journal with me on my journeys.  Sometimes the unexpected journeys are the best ones.  I had that opportunity just last week when my youngest daughter needed to move back home after graduating from college.  I did not want her driving over 1,000 miles all by herself so I decided to fly to Denver and drive home with her.  

Enjoying the last bits of sunlight as the sun sets, Yellowstone National Park
Congratulations!

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Kathleen for winning my Artful Gathering Workshop raffle prize!  All registered students in my The Good, the Bad, and the Beauty of Color Workshop were eligible and I had my daughters use random.org to generate the lucky winner.  She is the winner of this original watercolor painting:

Pear on a Ledge, Watercolor
Creating Drama in Black – Art Journal Tip

Creating Drama in Black – Art Journal Tip

Often before I leave on a trip, I often paint several pages in my art journal with black gesso.  I have a few favorite pens that I use that I have tested and the show up beautifully against the dark background.  Here is how I prepare my page and my favorite pens to take along on my journey.
1.  Put a piece of wax paper behind the page you are going to paint to protect the pages beneath from getting black on them.
2.  Coat the page with a light layer of black gesso.  I use watercolor journals with Arches paper and they coat very nicely.
3.  Let this dry.  Your page is ready for art and journaling!

This page was started with just a black background

Adding Texture to Your Paintings

Adding Texture to Your Paintings

Textured Stone Wall and Red Door

It is fun to play with different ways to add texture to your watercolor paintings.  Sprinkle, Splash and Splatter; Creating Texture with Watercolor, is one of the workshops that I am offering at CREATE, Chicago this Friday, August 23, 2013.  “Texture Stone Wall and Red Door” is just one of the step-by-step examples of one of the exercises that we will be painting in this workshop.

Learning about Color

Learning about Color

Here are a few things that we will be learning about in my CREATE class Rainbow Studies

We will do some color mixing making these fun color chickens

Here is how I use the color wheel to pick my colors

We will make some color studies
Using the colors on your palette we will make a color wheel
Pears are a great way to do color studies

Textured backgrounds add life to the paintings

Getting Ready for CREATE, Chicago!

Getting Ready for CREATE, Chicago!

I love collecting artistic tools to put in the goody bags that I give to my students.  I love meeting new artistic friends and catching up with old ones.  I love sharing what I have learned over the years about how to paint beautiful, colorful, glowing paintings and filling art journals with watercolor paintings and mixed media.  I love CREATE!

My little suitcase of supplies
Better clean up my palette
Showing off a colorful background ready for journaling

Dripping with color

Busy creating
Looking forward to catching up with Jenn Mason and Sue Pelletier
Stuffing goody bags

The Beauty of Color

The Beauty of Color

My online watercolor class is going well and everyone is having a wonderful time learning how to correctly use color in their paintings.  There is still time to join in on the fun.  Registration is open until August 1, 2013.   Here is a small sample of some of the paintings from the class and what students are saying:
 “Today I learned that I MUCH prefer tetras to triads! A good thing to know I suspect.”  Kaaren
Kaaren’s Pears
“I have enjoyed your class so much!  I hope you will do more soon.  I have your DVD and your book.  But I want more!  Putting miles on my brushes,
Karen”
“I love using the different color triads and compliments etc to make different works.”  Kristin
“I am so enjoying this workshop, and am really learning some things that I never learned in an art class before.  But I wanted to say that (in addition to finally understanding how a color wheel works) I love the idea of the chicken exercises and also the demo of transitioning the colors around the wheel, and “mixing, muddling and mingling…all great lessons, and I can’t wait to try them!”
Susan
Celeste’s Colorful Hearts
“I’m having a great time with these lessons. They are simple, but you learn so much about the paint itself and the colors.”   Celeste

Hearts on Fire

Hearts on Fire

I have new mixed media watercolor painting available for purchase.  The first in the series is “Hearts on Fire”

Hearts on Fire, Original Watercolor and Mixed Media Painting