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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…
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Continue reading →: How To Sew: A Quick Drawstring Gift BagWarning: You might want to grab some coffee, tea, or water for today’s blog post. Enjoy! I had an idea to sew another quick project on my vintage Singer sewing machine. I had sewn two mug rugs for my friend and I needed some sort of bag to complete the…
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Continue reading →: Clematis Watercolor Painting in My Luchetti Sketchbook-Part 2: My Finished PaintingLast week I posted about my watercolor painting of a clematis flower that I started and did not finish. I mentioned that I was going to pause and let my painting dry. This pause was for a very good reason. I wanted to share with my blog readers that I…
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Continue reading →: A Clematis Watercolor Adventure in My Luchetti Sketchbook-Part 1: Initial Sketch and Building Layers of ColorsWhen I think about creating a painting, I’ll already have a subject or topic in mind. Most of the time, I’ll have a vision after I’ve seen a picture I’ve taken. This Spring has been a busy time for me and I’ve taken lots of pictures of what’s blooming in…
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