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It's been a while since I took out my watercolor paints and paper.

My friend Sonja in Hawaii sent me this enticing video, which caused me to want to paint again

So there was no pressure, I tore up one sheet of watercolor paper, got out two paint sets, a big fluffy #8 round brush, water and a paper towel. 

I apparently forgot my patience because you need to let the first pale petals dry before painting over them, so I got more blending than I like. 

I was very critical of them, until the next day. Then I ...

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12" X 14"

gather fabrics with fun motifs

Like HOME I wrote out Thankful with a calligraphy pen, enlarged it to the size I wanted, 

transferred the word to fabric... using saral paper over face up fabric, then ...

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Welcome to this week's painting round up! 

I decided to try to paint my lovely pink quartz rock by our fountain. This lived in our garden paradise in MD and now lives on rocks of Colorado. 

 

I first painted the one on the right, and didn't like the perspective plus it looked like a shoe. I did like aspects of it, I liked the texture of the fountain, I liked the wash of color up on the right corner, and the bits of green on the brown rocks. I also enjoyed inking in the rocks after the paint ...

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Welcome to this week's painting post... it's been a worrisome week for me and not a lot of painting. 

I did continue to follow along best I could on the free online course Start Your Art and learned a few tips along the way. Unfortunately I didn't paint any masterpieces. I might just share a couple points that hit home however, and I did paint portraits of the teachers so there is that. 

It's good practice for "seeing" 

from one teacher I learned that painting a color wheel with your own paints is a record of ...

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Welcome to this week's painting post... I am taking the course Start your Art with two instructors daily for 14 days. 

I find I have little patience for the talk at the beginning of each video so I tend listen a little while I draw the speaker's portrait, then skip to any instruction they give

The sunflower painting came as a result of the teacher on the top right who encourages you to wet the paper, drop in color loosely, then layer more dynamic lines and color after that dries. 

I LOVE it... and when it went on ...

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Welcome to paint party Friday. 

I love watching paint move and blend, so I use watercolors. 

I cut out magazine words to lay on top above, kind of like it. I appreciate "real" in most circumstances especially friendship. Real doesn't mean say harsh things, it just s a way of having integrity.

Sometimes I paint what I see, sometimes I paint what I want to see

I really wet the paper this time and wanted to drop color on in pure hue and let it move around. 

I liked the effect but I couldn't resist pulling out the ...

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Only one little painting to show today.... but I liked doing it!! 

I watched the forger's masterclass on Andre Derain, one of the fauvists, then googled fauvists and a new appreciation for the style grew in me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkQhz0tv7gg

We had snow last week, but not enough to put out wildfires so our air quality is awful. Our weather can go from 90 to 25 in one day, then back again. Such extremes led me to feel at home with the fauvists this week. I saw exhibits of their school of work at the ...

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It's time for my weekly round-up of painting! Color, glorious color. I paint because I want to express something within myself.  Painting provides something that art quilting, and writing does not... oh they are all very important to me but in different ways, and I find I turn to each one throughout the week. 

The day before the snowstorm, we had to put our flowers in the garage for safety as we knew the temps were dropping from 90 to 25F then would be climbing back to 90 the following week. I had watched the forger's show on ...

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So, it all started with a post from the Writer's Almanac this week... mentioning Georges Braque. I remember I like his work, and wanted to learn more about him, so I did a little research...

 

I looked and looked through his artwork, to see why I'm drawn to his style, and what makes his style so definable to me... 

 

 I decided it was the hard edges, or planes, with color dragged away from them... kind of like last week's leaves painting I did. I got out the prismacolor watercolor pencils and did a quick still life of ...

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 Welcome to paint party Friday, and my weekly painting post. I just did two painted sketches this week, and finished a fiber piece that was inspired by one of my paintings. 

The pink flower above was going to be a mandala, and I liked the simplicity of it, so I left it. 

I think I like the edge of the petals, and the mix of paint by dragging the brush across two pans at once. 

The other one was to be an experiment with mixing the two colors on one brush stroke, then writing over it... 

this is what comes ...

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welcome to Friday's celebration of painting!

this week I wanted to put color on paper, then turn it into a landscape...a dash of this, a dot of that...
they are all 4" X 6"
and more vibrant in person... it's the process that was fun. Color running into color, metallic gold throughout for shimmer, then details turned it into a landscape

for perspective, I offer my finger

after walking one morning, I wanted to capture the light on the golf course with morning glories in white dotting the landscape. This came out of it
 yesterday I was ...

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more about this later!

Welcome to "Watching paint dry" with LeeAnna!
Sitting on the porch this weekend, I decided to paint a tree in my sketchbook. A sketchy undertaking as the paper is too thin for watercolor, but...it's the place to experiment
and this happened
I started with brush leaves... press and lift a round brush. Lots of colors! The more the merrier!
then I added in a trunk
and some mushrooms and hidden places and lots of sketchy lines with pigma pen
I used an almost dry brush to hint at a background color, and love the ...

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It's Friday, and yesterday I had a momentary panic that I hadn't painted this week. I've done other creative things but then I visited my friend Sonja in Hawaii who posted some beautiful photos on her blog. see the post HERE
Inspiration!
what if I tear out some words from magazines?
will they add to the piece? How about my own phrases printed and torn?

This is a vibrant piece in person, but seeing it in digital form I think the leaves need more color. There was more color but I went in after with white pen ...

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Ahhhh watching paint dry...
I was inspired by a recent video set in France, of their fields of flowers, and by my own yard of flowers
to paint this.
I used KOI paints, my wide flat brush dragged across green and blue at the same stroke, to lightly color the background.

then in with two shades of yellow, the green fineliner pen, and Posca white pen.









I keep paints and paper near the computer so when I'm jazzed with an idea, it's all there.
It's not often I love my paintings but I love this one in ...

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I'll show you what I painted this week, shall I? The first picture was in my mandala series. Circular, repetitive, meaningful.
I started with the pink/orange flower and like how the paint is lighter toward the centers.

I did another mandala here...
purple tombow marker, and black pigma pen.
Around and around, shapes and symbols.






















I just wanted to see paint move around on paper, and it became this
It was much nicer before I started with pens... oy... not everything works out
One evening I decided to do a splatter work, intuitive, just ...

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this week's mandala. Paint. Then ink over. Turn it around and look what formed accidentally


printed in light gray scale, pencil in colors, in progress...

painting printed on fabric with pencil over it

printed painting on fabric on left, pencil version over gray scale on fabric on right

Next step ...

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Welcome to Friday's paint post...
I started a painting class with Mary P. Murphy that is full of information and inspiration.
One exercise was to paint a really large flower engaging the borders, on small paper.
 this is 5" square paper, using round #8 brush and Kuretake paint, with white Posca pen dots.

Over paint, outline in pen, add, lift color, til content. DH said, it's so vibrant!
She also suggested 12 texturing techniques to try, one was saran wrap on very wet color

lots of water, blobs of color and let saran wrap dry on it

I ...

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It's been a full week of paintings...
I took another lesson from sketchbook revival as a freebie from her first year. The teacher was Shelley Klammer and she did some interesting activities. I tried to take a class from Blueprint. I made it thru the first 10 min and got bored but it stimulated me to do an experiment. I continued my quest of Mandalas in both painting and quilt making.

the quilt in the bottom right corner will be shown Saturday's post

I met with my art quilt group on zoom, and gathered some of my work ...

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