Happy New Year everyone. Here’s hoping for a happy and healthy 2016 for all. Today’s watercolor experiment: Unless I have an idea before I sit down to paint, it is exceedingly difficult to decide what to do. This morning I was looking out the window in my studio. From my desk, where I paint, there is […]
It was a long trip back home. I still see the road when I close my eyes. Coziness was on my mind during the whole trip… Today’s watercolor experiment: I began with a lazy terra rosa curve. ‘Terra rosa’ just sounds cozy, doesn’t it? It is buttery in consistency and I love to paint with […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: Blue was the inspiration for today’s experiment. I saw an exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum about the advent of the different blue pigments, beginning with Prussian blue. It included my favorites, cobalt blue and French ultramarine also. I wish they had a catalog of that show, because I was so enthralled […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I’m away from home, without my usual complement of paints and painting tools. Of course, I brought my palette, although normally I don’t use it much; a couple of small white ceramic soy sauce dishes containing dried paint (yellow ochre, cobalt blue, indanthrone blue and cadmium red light); my favorite brushes and […]
