Canyon Colors
Today, I finished another little page from my sketchbook of color palettes! This one is centered around a deep, vibrant shade of olive that I decided to contrast with a bunch of warm colors for
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
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
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