Pen and Ink Series #90: Pinky Calisthenics, LA, 2025
For violin practice.
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Lesson 10.5 – Creative Blotting
Today’s warmup exercise: The title of today’s exercise in the book I have been following, the Tate Watercolour Manual, Lessons from the Great Masters by Tony Smibert and Joyce Townsend, is Creative Blotting. The idea was to drop grainy pigments, such as raw umber and burnt umber onto pre-wetted watercolor paper. From there, the instructions said, to wipe […]
Lesson 4
Today’s warmup exercise: Working with the same colors and previous warmup exercises (Scales, Limber Session), namely yellow ochre, cadmium red light, cobalt blue and the gray resulting from mixing the red and the blue. I tried variegated (meaning, ‘a variety of colors) washes today. The lesson I followed in the Tate Watercolour Manual, Lessons from the […]
Limber Session
Today’s watercolor warmup: Today, washes were on the agenda as per the Tate Watercolour Manual, Lessons from the Great Masters by Tony Smibert and Joyce Townsend. The lessons in this book are supposed to lead the reader/practicer to learn techniques of the masters. I am very much looking forward to that. Here is my chart of washes: In the […]
