bee_eye is this what you meant by Dorky? (Those are obvs 12-sided dice in his paws)


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Rainy day today, time for some lazy watercoloring. I wanted to practice leaving holes for highlights, and experiment more with wet-into-wet. Here's a sketch I did from a photo of Watson. I think the highlights look OK but I wish I had differentiated the shadows more--they don't form clear shapes.


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This week in watercolor class we completed a "master study" to look at the colors and techniques used by other painters. For my master, I picked Chiura Obata--a Berkeley art professor who painted Yosemite in the 20s. I saw his work a few years ago at the Oakland Museum of California and fell totally in love. This piece is called Evening Moon--it's ( Read more... )

Homework for watercolor class last week was to apply what we learned about color theory to another still life. These paintings were really difficult to scan true to color. I completely blew out the lightest colors while trying to get the right intensity on the darker colors. Despite that, I think you can see the theory--the darker areas are not ( Read more... )

I have a lot to learn when it comes to watercolor. This week in class we did some practice still lifes (still lives?) of apples. Some of my classmates accomplished some really nice effects by leaving (seemingly random) areas with less paint... I didn't succeed as much in getting a variety of tones. And there is a scribbliness to these that I don't ( Read more... )

I'm enrolled in a watercolor class at UC Berkeley extension. I went to the first class on Tuesday, and already I have learned several things about color I didn't know before. For example, magenta (aka alizarin crimson) is a "cool" red and regular red (aka cadmium) is a "warm" red. Categorizing them in this way helps when you're trying to pinpoint ( Read more... )

Sketch Tuesday was a great success! I drew comics about empathetic rats, color-changing deep-sea squid, parasite-ridden ocean sunfish, and illusion-building bowerbirds. I didn't even think to bring a camera, so a few of those masterpieces will remain undocumented. Here are the pieces I captured during the course of the night.


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I'll be making and selling tiny drawings next week at this art bar in downtown SF. Stop by for little watercolor illustrations of recent zoology headlines.


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Watson has defeated Possum-chu!
Watson has gained 100 EXP points!
Watson has learned "Shake Paw!"

Watson has leveled up!

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