SusieG Studio

In early Fall, our garden was full of these pink beauties dancing in the wind. I took several pictures and I knew I had to create a painting.

With my pencil, I sketched the main flower first and sketched in the buds and what’s left after the petals fall off which is called the seed head.

I used a permanent pen called the Air Micro for the final outlines and to show some shading. I’m on the fence with this new-to-me permanent rollerball pen. I do like the pen’s tip as it reminds me of a ballpoint pen tip. This works perfectly well with the slightly rough paper in my Funto 100% cotton journal.

On the packaging, it say its a “handwriting pen that writes like a fountain pen.” It’s a rollerball pen filled with liquid ink. The pen is suppose to create a line width between 0.25mm to 0.45 mm. I’m still working on trying to get a finer line width.

The pen tip does a great job with creating “dots” on the paper and the bold lines.

The ink is water resistant and bonds to the paper well. I wasn’t able to smear or move the ink around with my wet watercolor washes. Overall, I think it’s a good sketching pen. I just need to use it more and figure out how to get the thinner lines. It could be, I need to lighten my grip while using the pen.

I created light washes of color around the flower buds and the seed heads to give my painting a light and airy feeling.

I was in my creative zone with this piece that I forgot to capture my painting steps. I’m having too much fun in my studio.

I wanted to share the Daniel Smith palette I used to create my Anemone sketch.

Here’s what the inside of the palette looks like with the included and filled half pans.

This is a plastic palette case and when I first used the large mixing area, the paint would “bead” up. After several uses, the mixing area now holds my mixture of paint together.

I always create a swatch card for each of my watercolor palettes. This set has a lovely range of colors. It’s Artist quality paint with lots of pigment.

This ultimate mixing set includes another palette with empty half pans that I can fill from other tubes of colors I have. I’m holding off from filling those empty pans as I have too many favorite paint colors to choose from. For future reference (for me- when I look back on this post), I should fill the pans with my fave Primatek, Iridescent, and Duochrome colors.

Daniel Smith offers other palette sets as well as tube sets, half pan sets, sticks, tubes (5ml & 15ml) and dot cards.

Watercolor paint colors used: From Daniel Smith Ultimate Mixing set-Hansa Yellow Medium, Quinacridone Gold, Permanent Alizarin Crimson, and Ultramarine Blue

Permanent pen: Uniball Air Micro in black

Brush: Pentel Water Brush in Medium