Postings of my various and sundry attempts at something like art
We practiced two new techniques with this painting:
This was huge fun, and I think I’ve found a style I really like doing. The painting is extremely fast, and the inking is fun after the painting and paper are completely dry. The tough part is it takes a long time for the paper to completely dry, even when helped along with a hair dryer.
One of my classmates brought in a picture of a painting she saw during a vacation. It’s a painting of a fish shack, with a dock and some boats.
Continue reading ““The Fish Shack” – copy of a painting”
I bought a few Daniel Smith Watercolour Paint Sticks from Dick Blick, and took the class session to try them out. The colours were:
Today’s painting class assignment was a picture that one of the other students found that was a fairly impressionistic watercolour of some vases with flowers on a patio.
Continue reading “Vases with Flowers on the Patio”
Last week, I attended both the Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday afternoon watercolour classes, because, wow do I NEED some painting time! The assignment was a painting by Manet, “Flowers in a Vase”, which is a rather lovely impressionistic oil painting. We, of course, work in watercolour, so it’s interesting to see what we come up with.
Continue reading “After Manet: “Flowers in a Vase””
This past week, I attended the painting class on both Tuesday and Wednesday, starting and finishing a copy of Gregory Packard‘s painting “Peonies on the table” (listing page).
This was a very fun painting to do; it reminded us very much of a Monet for its impressionistic qualities. As we were working in watercolour, the adages “work fast and loose”, “don’t think, paint”, and “get in and get out” were our guides.
Continue reading ““Peonies on the table” after Gregory Packard”
On Wednesday, March 6th, 2019, the 2 watercolour classes and the coloured pencil class got together to celebrate Vincent van Gogh’s birthday by learning a little about him and recreating his famous painting, “Starry Night”, some of us in coloured pencil and some of us in watercolour.
Continue reading “Vincent van Gogh day in class – “Starry Night” after Vincent”
In my email the other day, GouletPens shoved a picture of yet another purple pen in front of me, the Diplomat Magnum Prismatic Purple and so I just had to go and buy one. No, really.
It arrived today, and it was an interesting unboxing experience. Continue reading “New Pen Day: Diplomat Magnum Prismatic Purple”
Yes, I have relaunched an art blog. I’m running it on WordPress again, but I’m not providing the hosting this time, I’m using Gandi.Net’s simplehosting service, and the SSL certificate I get with a domain purchased from them.
This will probably be slow to grow, it takes a while to back fill all the posts and things from the previous incarnations. I don’t know how much that will happen, other than images. I’ve lost a lot of commentary along the way, especially from the previous WP incarnation, even though there were backups.
Hoping I can keep it going this time! Wish me luck!
This is the set of paintings I did in 2018.
Continue reading “Painting in 2018”