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Daily writing promptWhat skills or lessons have you learned recently?View all responses I've been obsessed with painting in gouache, and lately, it's been of birds on a wire/on telephone poles (and also cute robots!). For me, gouache is one of those paints where it looks messy at first and makes me want to quit, but... Continue Reading →
Daily writing promptList your top 5 grocery store items.View all responses Decided to watercolor my top 5 items.
I got this little watercolor sketchbook from Amazon. It was free item I received to review. What drew me to this sketchbook at first was the cute little bunnies with floral artwork, but then when I got a closer look at the paper quality, I was hooked. The paper is thick cold press watercolor paper... Continue Reading →
This was one of the most difficult paintings I did with gouache. I nearly gave up. I think it turned out fine, but multiple times I almost tore it up. It could just mean I need more practice with gouache. You might ask why I keep using gouache and not watercolor if it's such a... Continue Reading →
I created this watercolor card for husband following a tutorial on YouTube. Husband and I celebrated our 20th anniversary in Chicago, IL. We spent a couple of days in the city and made sure to have dinner at Giordano’s—the restaurant where we realized we liked each other, and so sat together. We thought we’d found... Continue Reading →
I started bullet journaling not too long ago. I'd say, less than three years ago. This is my second official bujo notebook. I did some bujo here and there in other notebooks before going official. I wasn't sure what I wanted to bujo so I followed a few Youtubers until I found what I needed... Continue Reading →
In April I tried to follow through with an Instragam "draw in your style" type drawing. Draw in your style is where an artist shares a drawing and others follow along by either drawing it in their style or try to draw it the way the artist drew (which is how I did it). I... Continue Reading →
A watercolor from a reference sketch. This was the watercolor set I used. The Shmincke Academie was a holiday set from a year ago. I ordered it through Ebay but then realized the same set was also sold on Etsy by the same person (Etsy is my preferred place to buy internationally...I just maneuver the... Continue Reading →
I'm in the process of moving some large files over to another external drive to make room for those REF files from my camera, so while that's moving along in the background, I thought I'd share what I was painting the last couple of days. This was done using a reference digital painting by Larry... Continue Reading →
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