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watercolors landscape and trees.
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watercolors landscape and trees.
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I turned in two more small paintings, sort of pleased with them. The hitch about making art is that it never comes up to your plans, and you just have to do your best and move on, taking the learning with you.
I recently started following a lovely account on Twitter, of an illustrator who posts daily an image from an illustrator, some of whom I know, such as the Moomin creator, some of whom I'm only vaguely familiar with, and all of whom I think I need to know better.
At the moment it's about picture books, and since my own acquaintance with them is slight, other than Ezra Jack Keats, for whose major birthday celebration I led a community giant artwork based on The Snowy Day, that was great fun, where was I, oh yes, I am planning on getting to know picture books much better. It's a whole area of art that I can explore and learn from.
Starting here with Quentin Blake, whose The Five of Us is a marvelous parable of inclusion, differences, friendship,fun, bravery, problem solving, and all done in a virtuosic ink and wash.
Do you have picture book illustrators to recommend? I'm open to all suggestions on this.
Many hours of sleep and much dreaming later, today is a better day. I actually managed a trip to the store and home, yay. So, doing much better.
And I made a little landscape or two. One per day. This is working out nicely, just enough work before I'm ready to move on. Still working in 8 x 5 and 5 x 8. The pix are a bit out of true, but the paintings aren't.
While I was at it, I thought you'd like to know that if you have those expensive tubes of watercolor (don't bother with the cheapies, don't buy student grade, get the best), and if said tubes have dried and gone hard you need not despair.
You just cut them open, and with the application of water, you go right on using that pigment. It's like a pan of color, only better, because it was formulated to stay moister. And as you see, my palette doesn't look elegant or anything, but it works a treat.
