Too much stress to try to post a painting here on Blogger. It hasn’t been working right for months. I give up. You can find my work over at Facebook or on Instagram (I am just starting out there but it seems to be working okay.)
Wishing you all a wonderful New Year full of creative fun! See you around - but not here, sadly.
My sister loves bears so I painted one for her birthday card this year.
Painted a purple Chris-Moose for our niece in Alaska for her Christmas card this year.
Sweetie went to the Newport Aquarium this month with a young photographer who wanted to learn some good rules for photographing the exhibits. Sweetie got some great photos of the Giant Pacific Octopus (which is rarely out and so beautifully displayed). So I had to try to paint her!!
The second version (started yesterday), I wanted to try to get closer to that dark wine and purple color, but more to do to finish that one. These are both on 9 x 12 inch watercolor paper - the first on Arches rough 140# and the second on Fabriano cold press 140#.
The mixed media (Canson XL) sketchbook is not good for pure watercolor (top painting). I think the paper is too thin and it doesn’t accept the water.
Seond little sketchbook works well, has quite a bit of texture.
Third painting is on mineral paper and hard to get darks because it’s almost (but not quite) like Yupo paper.
Just playing around and testing what I have and what works with each one. I have so many sketchbooks. I used to buy Arches and Fabriano in full sheets but have changed to sketchbooks more often since I don’t paint large anymore.
Still having issues with Blogger asking me to sign in over and over and not downloading my photos until the 3rd or 4th try and sometimes I give up. And sometimes cannot post to friends’ blogs, either!! I still haven’t gone to Instagram and learned anything there to post something - just look at artwork there for pleasure.
