Draw Happy: Getting in the Draw Happy Mood

For this exercise Jane instructed us to think of what made us happy before we even picked up a pen. I thought about it for a bit and while listening to the Juno soundtrack, this is what I came up with.

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This first image is after thinking about what made me happy.
Apparently at that moment it was my beau's eyes, the apology orchid and some waves.
Go figure. What I did like a lot is the wonder and glory of gesso to cover a failed sketch attempt.
The drawings were done with pen and oil pastel. I really like how the waves turned out.

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Watercolor Techniques: Floral fun Day 3

PANSY!!!!



That's what we worked on during the final class. This class focused on blending like with the narcissus, but also on glazing. I obviously didn't finish because I felt compelled to create massive flowers, the likes of which will only rival O'Keefe's.

Watercolor Techniques: Floral fun Day 2

Blooming....

ugh.



If you can get this technique right, you can created lovely organic edges to things. But more than likely, mastery of the technique will elude you and you will do what I did and just scribble in the mess with your brush.

Watercolor Techniques: Floral fun Day 1

Oh watercolor, how I love thee.

I took another watercolor class at Wyndham Art Supplies (with Karen Kesteloot). This time it was a three day workshop on creating flowers in watercolor using some more creative and watercolor specific techniques such as 'blooming', salt and masking.



The first day we just spent some time mucking about with the paint and learning to create specific effects.