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Continue reading →: My Fountain Pens – Currently InkedI believe the last time I posted about my fountain pens was back in January of this year. I had a few pens that I carried over from the end of 2025 and used them for mostly journal writing. I wanted to do a quick post to show my blog…
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Continue reading →: In My Luchetti Sketchbook: Rudbeckia HirtaFor the month of July, I’ve been challenging myself to create watercolor sketches from a few floral pictures I have taken around our garden. I’m not very good at sketching from memory so I have to rely on my photos. Over the years, I have printed my fave floral pictures…
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Continue reading →: My Singer 201-2: Part 7-True 201 Personality & My FeatherweightI’ve been watercolor painting non-stop for the last few weeks and documenting my creativity. You’ve probably noticed my sewing has taken a back seat for a bit. I did have this blog post about my Singer 201 sitting in my drafts folder for a few weeks. I wanted to take…
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Continue reading →: My Garden Gnome Watercolor Sketch & Learning About My Painting StyleI started with a pencil sketch and drew the basic shapes and outlines of my Garden Gnome. Here’s what my two page spread looked like. I used my gnome statue as a reference and to get the proportions right in my sketch. I decided to sketch a few additional details…
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Continue reading →: Painting a Maui Nix for FunNote: This blog post was published late in the evening and of course the next morning I find quite a few paragraphs with bad grammar and basically bad writing where my thoughts were not flowing right. I’ve updated this blog post and hope I fixed most of my errors. Just…
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Continue reading →: Changing Out Four Colors in My Watercolor Palette & My Swatch CardsThe good thing about using a small palette is I get to work with a limited number of colors at one time. From this limited palette, I can experiment and create colorful mixes of additional colors to use. For the last few months I’ve been using the same paint colors.…
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Continue reading →: A Small Floral Painting in My Luchetti Sketchbook: BluebellsI thought it would be fun to create a smaller floral painting. I’m in between projects and I wanted to keep my sketching skills going. So, I had to gather a few of my smaller travel brushes and get in some practice time. In early Spring, I took this picture…



















