A Few of My Favorite Things
Quilting and painting and baking and gardening (and kittens!), these are a few of my favorite things! I had a very unproductive month in July (not counting the setup of a new home … Read more
Watercolors
Painting with Fountain Pen Ink
Both as a distraction from current events and as a new creative venture, I used fountain pen ink to create a few different watercolor paintings a couple of days ago. The ink is … Read more
Wild & Free Watercolors
I tried out a new set of handmade watercolor paints for the first time today, creating a color chart that demonstrates how each color mixes with the other. Wild & Free, created by … Read more
Linocut Palette: Start to Finish
I’ve just completed cutting and printing my first original linocut design! Previously I’d used images that were licensed for re-use under a Creative Commons license, but I really wanted to do an original … Read more
Watercolor Swatches: Red, Blue and Green
Over the past month, I’ve painted watercolor swatches of 21 colors, representing 7 pigments each of red, blue and green. I did this for a couple of reasons. I wanted to practice creating … Read more
A Painterly Kind of Day
The winds were howling and gusting all day, so I spent the afternoon dabbling with my watercolors. I painted 4 copies of an exercise designed to build skills with layered washes. Part of … Read more