Category Archives: art techniques

Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with Green (Paint)

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Happy St. Paddy’s Day, March 17, 2012 In honor of St. Patrick’s Day I dug out my green color charts and contemplated the many shades and tones of green. Actually, greens are made with many more colors than green, mostly blues and yellows, and the variety is astonishing. Green is a challenging color. Getting the right natural tone for a leaf or plant seems to … Continue reading

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Making a personal connection with paint!

Loosening Up

People make all sorts of personal connections; with their family, pets, cars, computers, even shoes. I decided to make a personal connection with the one thing that fills my waking thoughts every day, 365 days a year. Paint. It’s a beautiful substance, capable of such incredibly diverse potential. The color combinations are limitless, and the dilemma of mixing just the right color, shade or tint … Continue reading

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Just a Little Blackbird

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Long road trip, what to paint? Shall I read my Kindle instead, since I have about a dozen novels in progress? Painting won out, mainly because I’d just popped several new half pan Winsor & Newton watercolors into my travel set: Specifically: Winsor Red, Winsor Yellow and Winsor Orange, which means every color in my travel set is transparent or semi-transparent. No more mud for … Continue reading

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Long road trip? Try a little lap painting!

My lap painting set-up

Long road trips make me crazy. I can’t get anything accomplished. I’d much rather be painting! So for our 4-hour trip to Ellensberg (for the Renewable Energy Roundup Art Show) I rigged up a little watercolor lap painting set-up. Allan drove, so I could concentrate on making sure my water cups didn’t jiggle over as we crossed Snoqualmie Pass with its patches of potholed roadway that … Continue reading

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