Month: February 2025

I am experimenting with a limited palette of only ultramarine, unbleached titanium, quinacridone red, and caput mortuum. I am not sure if I like it, I will know in the morning. I already know her arm needs to be fixed. I got a bit carried away with the folds, and didn’t pay attention to where…

I am still avoiding the watercolour on brown paper version, to the point it’s becoming a running joke in this house. I am having fun doing multiple versions of the same reference tho, and today I have sized it up to a 16×20″ canvas. The canvas had a sketch of a figure pose on it,…

I only had ten minutes spare today so I just grabbed my brush and sketched the reference that was sitting on the bench. Some days the art making is about creative adventures and following trails, and on other days it’s about maintaining that tiny gossamer lifeline to hope. I bought a book about painting second…

This is the brown paper coated in white opaque watercolour ground that I prepped a while back. I didn’t sketch first, just painted her onto the surface. It’s an interesting surface to work on. I can see why there are mixed reviews about watercolour ground, because it doesn’t create a surface like watercolour paper, but…