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A watercolor and ink card of a purple and blue hydrangea. A vertical rectangle cuts through the whole card and within it there is no color, only line work.

An ink and watercolor card of three pink and yellow tulips. A circle frames the middle tulip. Everything within the circle is painted, outside of it is ink alone.

the last two cards I did for the small gift set. The hydrangea was the only one I used pencil on, and that just guidelines. This year I ditched pencils and erasing for ink sketching and I’m happy with how confident I’ve gotten with ink… even if it means my mistakes last forever! #watercolor

A loose watercolor winter landscape of bare trees in front of a mountain and muted violet and yellow sky.

Here’s a tutorial painting following a video by Bianca Rayala. I really liked the color combination of pv29 perylene violet and pbr7 monte amiato sienna in the sky! #watercolor

Very nice brush strokes!

Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art (1896) — an Art Nouveau reference book full of elaborate ornamentation: winged dragons, chiseled hieroglyphs, warring sea creatures, and more... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/das-thier-in-der-decorativen-kunst/

A watercolor landscape of a sunset behind the silhouette of a rock formation.

Here’s the only other one from the sketchbook that I photographed before the spill. I haven’t checked on it since yesterday but I could tell that several were damaged.

I’m so glad I took a picture of this and shared it because yesterday I spilled one of my water containers on this sketchbook 😢 I’m just grateful it wasn’t one of my bigger books where my more time-intensive paintings go.

I’m happy with my lines. I don’t often draw before painting but the ink and wash style looks how I’d planned! I gave up pencil and erasing in January and it was the best decision I ever made for drawing. Going in ink first forces me to think before I draw!

Two handmade floral cards done with black ink and watercolor. On the left is a pink flower against a purple square. The drawing outside the square is unpainted. On the right is a red and yellow poppy. A bar through the middle is unpainted.

I’m working on a small set of cards to gift to a family member who’s a big gardener. These went smoothly and I’m feeling confident I’ll finish the project in time!

Always! Thank you!

Thank you! I think I will!

A gentle sunrise over an empty parking lot. The sky above is blue with wispy clouds while the sun event is yellow, orange, and purple. Trees and power lines silhouette against the sky.

I have a small sketchbook that I use mostly for little sky studies. If I don’t do skies regularly I forget how! In this one I wanted to capture the feeling of noticing a pretty sky in a mundane setting. most of my favorite sunsets and rises have been witnessed in parking lots. #watercolor

I like Bee paper’s deluxe mixed media sketchbooks. Ink doesn’t shadow much and colored pencil works well on the tooth. The paper can also handle light water media.

A diptych of watercolor paintings, both done in blue, brown, and yellow. On the left, misty pine trees are reflected in water and backed by sunlight. On the right is a close up of birches with blue brown background, with details of the trees done in ink.

Getting back into painting after a sickness break with a couple common motifs. These are both predominantly two color pieces with the third for accents. Limited palettes are my comfort zone! #watercolor #lineandwash

These are both great!

Lovely 1950s illustration of a young woman in a tea dress, sipping a cool drink and holding a fan, relaxing in a striped hammock.

From Good Housekeeping's Summertime Cook Book, 1958. Illus. by the mysterious Lou Peters, whom I found out years later (after inquiring about them on my blog in 2007) that "Lou" was actually Luciana Peters. She passed away in 2021 at the bright young age of 102.

#wardsmorguefile #moreartlessdoom

Oh, the lack of ox gall makes sense! I mostly use pg to mix palette mud for shadows so it may work better to have it move less.
I do have some QoR! It’s fun, but I need to get more familiar with how it works with other brands—so far I usually keep it separate because it’s unpredictable!

I got a new payne’s gray from holbein and it’s less dispersive than my last tube from winsor & newton. That’s probably good but I gotta adjust! This is my first time trying holbein and I wonder if they’re all more stay-put-ish.

Two watercolor landscape paintings on one page. In the top painting a lonely cypress grows in an arid environment against distant blue mountains. The sky is ominous. On the bottom, spring trees frame a couple of distant cottages. The field is very green and yellow and the shadows of the trees contrast sharply.

Here’s my latest diptych! #watercolor #traditionalart #landscapepainting

It’s the sizing that can go bad. That’s the treatment that makes the paper able to absorb water. It can decay, which usually shows up as weird spots and patches.

So cute!

I just finished this audiobook! I listen to them while I paint and this book accompanied my last piece. It felt good In These Times to read a book where so much of the arc was about learning to trust in and embrace community.

A watercolor painting of a white farm house in a golden field. Trees frame the house. The sky is stormy.

A golden field! Reference image from a class on skillshare that I decided not to do.
#watercolor #traditionalart #watercolorpainting

Yes, it has wonderful granulation!!

I used a new tube from maimeri blu of one of my favorite mixers, pr233/potter’s pink. my pigment nerd friends told me that this brand has a great pr233 and boy were they right! It was absolutely dreamy to work with! I love using pr233 for desert paintings for the texture and glow it brings.

A traditional art watercolor of a wooden gate in adobe wall. Despite the desert tones of the wall and gate, cool greenery looms behind it.

I made this for a monthly challenge on pmp-art around the theme of gates. I was delighted working on this and I hope that comes through. #watercolor #watercolorpainting

A watercolor painting of the black sand beach in Iceland. A cliff with bright green sections and very dark shadows stands above the beach, with many distant birds flying around it.

I forgot to even take a picture of this one until a discussion on discord of how hard rocks are to paint reminded me! I was unhappy with the sand when I finished so I put it in my no-share pile, but on second glance, I really do like my green cliff and birds! #watercolor

My friend @willhudsoncomics.bsky.social is in this, so I’m sure it will be great!

I love the pink one—the mixture of colors on that moose are very complex and appealing.

Wow!! I’m so impressed—I find gouche tricky to get smooth blocks of color with. This looks great, and such a peaceful scene.

Thank you! Hard for me to preserve little bits of white without masking fluid, so I’m proud that I managed it!