Cool, Warm, Rococo
This week, we had a few inches of snow, followed by the most beautifully temperate sunny days! That’s how it works in springtime where I’m at: it’s a dramatic back-and-forth until summer tails in at
Gummy Candy Palette
Today, I’ve got another gouache painting from my little book of sketches themes around certain color palettes. Today’s inspiration was a selection of vibrant fruit colors. Gummy bears seemed like a fun challenge to paint,
Daffodils
We had snow again yesterday, but I’ve had spring flowers indoors for a couple of weeks now! If you buy a bag of spring bulbs while they’re on clearance at the end of the season
Early Spring Color
I did a little travelling earlier this week, so I’m back with a double feature. I’ve been continuing with a lot of small gouache sketches and studies. It’s such a quick-drying medium that you can
Kitchen Baskets
With a tiny page, I can do a more detailed little scene in one morning’s warm-up. Today’s sketch was based on a photo of a kitchen nook, and I was most interested in trying to
Tapestry Palette
In my small sketchbook of little color palettes, I stick to paintings made with between about six to ten colors. Usually, I start by looking at the well of my honeycomb palette with the most
Regular, Runny
Since I’m hard at work on exciting things that aren’t sketches, I’m keeping it pretty simple today with a typography exercise. My little game for this page was to draw a very typographically neat letter,
Peach Florals
I’ve been having a ton of fun in the sketchbook I’ve dedicated to little, limited color gouache sketches! One of these small palette sketches is perfect for a morning warm-up, especially if I paint in
Peryton
Today’s sketch is an illustration of a piece of old, crumbling statuary from the edifice of an old medieval building. Mossy and weathered, it shows a stag-bird creature that was probably part of a sponsor’s
Screen of Flowers
When you own neon paints, sometimes you just have to come up with an excuse to use them. My recently purchased jelly gouache palette came with a bunch of really vibrant shades that I wouldn’t