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Did you miss the bird-drawing class? Wish you could learn all the tricks the cool kids use? Wanna see a picture of me holding a pintail duck decoy? YEAH YOU DO.
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Plein Air Watercolor!
Spent the last few weekends out painting in the fall sunshine. This was a grave marker in Mountain View Cemetery. I loved the gold afternoon light and twisty oaks. Also, my paintin' buddy ( Read more... ) -
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Hi Friends!
I've moved my blog over to tumblr. I'm in the process of scanning and posting all my sketches from my trip to Costa Rica. Come check it out:
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Watercolor Class: Heron Cam!
So our last project of the class is a longer one--a series. The assignment coincided with my latest infatuation: Heron Cam:
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/page.aspx?pid=2433
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Watercolor class continues.
No particular assignment this week. I'm continuing to challenge myself to paint big. I also reaaaaallllly want to get some control with wet into wet and still I'm not getting the results I want. I wanted the green foliage to be sort of indeterminately blobby and both times ended up painting over it multiple times to blur the edges.
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Watercolor class week 5: Landscape continued
We are still learning about landscapes. In class last night we painted from photos. I started with one of one of those arches in Utah but forgot to write down any more details about it.
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Watercolor class week 4: trees!
This week's homework for class was to paint trees. It was raining all week so I painted from a photo by fellow artist wildbryde
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