Watercolors In The Summer and Cheap Supplies!

Watercolors in the Summer are great!  There is soooo many beautiful florals and landscapes available to sketch and watercolor with all different techniques!  This is a great time to try different methods of watercolors be it with watercolor pencils or paints.

I was so fortunate this last weekend....Summertime is 'Garage Sale Crazytime'.  I found a few canvases, sketchpads and watercolor pencils at a garage sale!!!! I love a bargain!  The whole find cost only $5.00!!! What a deal and now I can search for a subject to paint.  The flower below looks like a great prospect doesn't?
See you soon!!! Happy Watercoloring!

More Experimenting...Sketching & Pastels

    I found an old picture of a favorite old friend of mine and began to sketch with pencils a layout of good ole' Barney the cat.  It was first a sketch then I wanted watercolors added...naw...something else! 


   So I am in the process of trying pastels and learning how I can darken and lighted accents by piling them on or lightly shading them on the picture.  I have even been smudging and rubbing them slowly into shape.  Just remember!! THESE ARE WORKS IN PROGRESS  AND  PROGRESS NOT PERFECTIONS!!!

I am enjoying this exercise because I am not only learning and trying to do something out of my comfort zone, but it brings good memories forward.

    Barney was 'one of a kind' to us.  I think when I'm done I'll keep this one by my work area.

Continuous Blind Line Drawings

 Hey, I think I draw better with my eyes closed Not looking at the drawing as I go!

 

I was driving into town earlier, appreciating the scenery and suddenly remembered an excercise in sketching/drawing that I enjoyed...starting at one spot on paper with my pen and draw without lifting the pen from the paper. I did this a few times (not while driving) and found an interest in some of the pen drawings, so I colored in one, left one as drawn, did highlights on another with watercolor and I am still pondering what heck the others are! 

 My watercolor sketchings are always a work in progress, trying different mediums and styles..different techniques to begin to enjoy what I'm doing.  As the article I posted earlier, Watercolor Sketching Techniques, I am accepting accidents and imperfections as a technique to explore what methods I enjoy.

 I know today I am a 'work in progress'.... so my sketchings, drawings, watercolors, and other adventures I go on are definitely 'works in progrees'.