watching paint dry...

Welcome to Paint Party Friday! I've been enjoying my supplies this week!

My local art supplies store had a buy one, get one free brushes offer, so I got two to try, both a mix of squirrel hair and synthetic. A black velvet round jumbo (size small) and a 3/4 Princeton flat chisel tip.
I also invested in a new to me paint set, by Kuretake Gansai Tambi, and have used it a lot since.

Sampling the colors in my sketchbook

I like the intensity but I do have to mix colors every time I paint. Usually I must layer color from my paint pans of KOI but these are so intensely one value. I LOVE the shades of lavender I've been able to achieve with it... and have been experimenting with the big flat brush for leaves, water, and petals.

There's not a lot online about ways to use it, and since I am working small now it's challenging but I love it! The strokes are bold, and push the color around in interesting planes.

Lettering practice from Shayda Campbell, and water scene a quick use of new wide flat brush and new paints

For a long time I used water filled brushes, but am in love with regular brushes now. I do not enjoy having a pan of water nearby though... I am a clumsy painter.

For some reason I just love rinsing out the brushes, then dragging them along a tissue as I twirl them to reset the points for drying. Funny what feels satisfying in life isn't it? I also like seeing the mix of brushes and pens next to my work space.

I've been tearing mixed media paper in half, then folding that half into quarters to make cards. It gives me a chance to try an idea and make something useful to send a friend. 

Note my "chop" on the back!

while watching a tutorial this week, the artist was unhappy with the way her paint bled... oh no! She said, it's not working today!.

First of all she's brave to do a  tutorial and post it if it's not "perfect"
Second of all, it wasn't wrong, it just wasn't what she wanted to happen, or expected to happen. I thought the bleeding color was lovely.
There is some kind of lesson there, right?

snail is for my friend Joann in the Netherlands

beginning to look like halloween!

Love the shades from my Tambi paint set!

As my poor sunflowers began to droop in the vase this week, I tried doing a little sketch each day on the calendar.

I enjoyed this video this week too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9gDc66wk5o

I LOVED this drawing video... so helpful about drawing each day, without  pressure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51_39lqZuJc

I went back and listened a second time, and made notes in my sketchbook

 as I felt it was important info. The gist is to allow yourself to grow, and expecting perfection in drawing doesn't always encourage that growth... and to observe. It's just as important a step.

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