Chateau Flowers
For the last couple of weeks, my Friday post has featured a curated palette. In that spirit, I wanted to share something again from my little book of color palettes. Today, I have gouache sketch
Wardian Case
Sometimes, I just get a hankering for coloring in a big area in with regular graphite pencil. When I sketched a few simple plant shapes in the sketchbook, I ended up framing them in like
Sea Glass Palette
It’s a color palette day! This gouache sketch is monochromatic, focusing on the blue-green color family. The cool weather this week had me thinking in cool tones. I was inspired by the colors in glass
Winter Garden
Gardening is the most recent non-art hobby that I’ve fallen in love with. Growing things is something I’m pretty bad at, historically, but with practice and persistence, I’ve managed to get kind of okay! I
Frog Song
This little guy is probably my favorite thing that I’ve drawn in the past few weeks. Maybe because it’s inspired by weird, antique anthropomorphic animals in advertisements, which I find really charming. Even though it’s
Crocus Land
The sketchbook page that I’m posting today is another one that’s based around a limited color palette. This time, it’s focused around the contrast between a warm yellow and cool violet-blue. I put some flower
Strawberry Flowers
I started today’s sketchbook page by taping off a sheet, and filling the background area with a gradient made with leftover paint. It was a mix of purple-y reds, a little dull medium green, and
Cheerful Teapot
We got several inches of snow, so it’s been chilly in the studio this week, but it makes for wonderful painting light! Today’s sketch is a still-life practice based on a photo of an adorable
January Blues
I’ve mentioned before that sometimes I re-visit the same themes year-to-year. Sometimes that goes for particular color palettes, too. Such is the case for my current color obsession. After painting a sketch last week, I
New Year’s Mermaid
One of my big goals for the year 2023 is more pictures, less words! I spend way too much time trying to think about words to go with sketches, and not enough time posting sketches.