It was a Beautiful Day, A Peek inside my Watercolor Journal
Strolling on a Sunny Day |
Strolling on a Sunny Day |
Mt. Hood with Lavender Fields |
Here is a page from one of my larger journals. I use the Arches Field Watercolor book. It comes in 2 sizes (10×7 inches or 14×10 inches) I uses both sizes. Here is a link for the journals at Dick Blick Art Supplies: Journals. Other stores carry them too. I love these journals because they are filled with Arches fabulous 140 lb watercolor paper and hard bound with a spiral wire binding so that they lay flat when painting.
The weather was beautiful and the sunflowers were in full bloom. We spent the day painting en plein air, which is the French term meaning, in the open air. The impressionist artists of the late 1800s made this popular because of the invention of tube paint. They no longer had to grid and mix their own paints with powders and linseed oil. If you are ever in Paris, France, be sure to visit the Sennelier store where many Impressionist shopped. It is much the same as it was in the 1800s!
Brand new blog – High Desert Art League
The High Desert Art League just started a new blog.
That is me in that party dress. Actually it was an Easter dress. Notice how the Dr. Seuss poem is all blurred because I took my journal on a little boating trip the other day. The kids were boarding and when my husband did a sharp turn in the boat, a huge wave of many gallons of water came over the bow and landed on my head and in my lap, much to his delight! Of course, he did not get wet – just me and my journal.
Oh the Places you will go! |
******Note to myself and others******* Protect your journal in a zip-locked baggie when involved with water sports and you feel compelled to take your journal along, even though you know you won’t really have time to work in it.