Color Charts

This is a chart of the colors that I've had in my new pallet for a month now... doing this color chart made me decide to change a couple of colors.  I just don't like Thalo blue, I love Opera Pink, but rarely use it, so I don't think it needs to live in my palette... and finally Holbein's Leaf green I forget who had this on their pallet and so I bought some and added it to mine, it just doesn't work for me either alone or in mixes... so it's out as well.

This is the chart for the new pallet.  I added Quin. Magenta, Prussian Blue and Holbein's Marine Blue.  I'll use this pallet for a month or so and evaluate again.  

Here's the chart that I'll carry with me (in case I forget which color is which)

June04Art

It's been quite a journey... the 5 year anniversary... has been a goal, it isn't a guarantee of course but it means my chances are better that the cancer won't come back.

June03Art

Went to Michael's today and got plastic storage boxes 40% off, including a long one that my long hake brush will fit in... yippee.  Had to get this Martha Stewart Elephant punch... totally didn't need it at all...  resisted buying the edge punches w/ corner punch included... they were very cool, but very expensive. Drew my elefant punch, and glued a couple of them down, you can't tell but their ears are cut out too.  

Day 6 - Greece - Santorini

Santorini, almost our last stop on the imaginary trip to Greece.  Wouldn't you know it... left my pen AND pencil at the hotel, so had to do these snippets without drawing.. thus the wonky arches.  I framed with a pen when I got back to the room and made of note to buy more blue paint for my next trip to Greece.  I could have used a couple more shade of blue today.

June02Art

Went to the gun show this morning, get myself a new bright orange gun bag.  Now I'll be able to find my bad in the sea of black gun bags...  Got some cute earrings too, several vendors have jewelry for sale at the shows, I assume so the men can buy a trinket for the wife so maybe she won't be mad he bought another gun LOL.

June01Art

Today was the last day with my first graders, when I see them again at the end of July they'll be second graders, and those kindergartners will be in the first grade... and I'll get a new crop of little ones. We just had fun drawing whatever they wanted today, including drawing on the white board and practicing writing their names in cursive. I'm going to miss them for the next couple of months...
Went out to dinner at Chillis tonight, I love their onions/jalapeno appetizer, and they have a sugar free Margarita too...

May31Art

I'm little Miss Muffet, I drew a spider, and must admit it creeps me out to look at it. So thus ends the Every Day in May challenge, I did something every day in May, and stuck to the list except for one day. It was a fun exercise, I'll gladly participate again next year.
Now I need to catch up on my rural sketcher drawings, that I couldn't work in with the May stuff. That challenge is easier you have a week to find the subject and get it drawn.

Art Supplies - Sketch kits - What's in my bag

I LOVE looking at other people's art supplies, so I took the camera outside today... and took photos of my stuff...

This is my small 5x8 journal made my handbook. I use a big binder clip to cut down on paper buckling and it can hold the book open on windy days... had to include my hibiscus... isn't it gorgeous?

Inside the pencil pouch, is my small Bijou box with 12 half pans, a few pens and a niji waterbrush.  This journal and pencil pouch are in my purse and go with me everywhere, every day.

This bag holds all my painting gear along with a large watercolor journal made by handbook.  This is the journal I'm using for this class, and the one I took to New Orleans with me recently.

The pencil pouch on this large journal holds a Cottman pallet with twelve colors along with a water brush, pen and pencil.  For a quick trip, I can just grab the book with the pencil pouch and have everything I need to sketch.

If I carry the sketch bag out... I carry all this other stuff along.  The bag holds a lot of gear and yet is not too heavy to carry long distances.

This zipper pouch holds a couple of water brushes.  A watercolor pencil along with a pen or two.  The little yellow bottle hold enough water to refill a waterbrush 3 times.  This pouch also holds my compact plastic pallet.

This is the pallet open, it also has room for 2 travel brushes and a bit of sea sponge.  This is a new pallet for me, I've only had it about a month now.  I really like it, it holds a lot of paint, is light weight and easy to hold when you don't have somewhere to sit a pallet down to paint.  I also like that it is not nearly as heavy as a similarly configured metal pallet box.

This plastic lure box, found in the fishing section at Wal-Mart, holds more travel brushes, some full size flat brushes, a pocket knife, a bit of Mr. Clean Magic eraser, and a piece of white crayon.  Got the bright green water flask below at the liquor store.. it carries a nice amount of water and yet doesn't take up a lot of room or weigh too much.  I use a terry cloth wash cloth instead of paper towels... avoids having to deal with trash and I think it works better to clean waterbrushes. 

Here's the flask and a small round container for my painting water.  This container is water tight so that if I can't dump out the dirty water in my location (like a restaurant or bar) I can pop the lid on and take my dirty water with me.

One final pencil case, holds more pens, scissors, pencils, erasers, pencil sharpener, and ink refill cartridges.....

It all fits in the bag... ready for adventure.

May30Art

Season ticket holder hockey fans... so this assignment was a breeze for me.  Made some pimento cheese today... hadn't done that in a while... it sure was good.  Thanks to the EDiM project for reminding me how much I like it.

Day 5 - Thessaloniki Greece

This page is the least realistic, of what would happen to me on a trip, imaginary or otherwise that I can imagine.  Considering that for at least the last 5 years I've NEVER been anywhere without at least 12 watercolors, a water brush and sketchbook in my purse.  I RARELY use bleeding ink pens, I own them and I use them sometimes, but one of them being the only pen I have isn't likely, and if I have one color, I'd have 12.  The other thing that I did on this that I rarely do... I drew it 3 times, first with a black bleeding pen, using Quin. Gold for the color... horrid, then using a TomBow Sepia pen with Paynes Gray as my color, that turned out.. ok... so I did it again in the sketchbook I'm using for this 'trip'... the 'test' image actually turned out better, quite possibly because by the third drawing... I'm pretty bored with this, in spite of really, really loving the photo.  No WAY I'd draw something 3 times on a trip... so I've whined about this one enough don't you think?  It only takes up half the page, I may draw something above it, but right now I'm resisting the urge to tear it out of the sketchbook. 

May29Art

Today's assignment for EDiM just wasn't something I could do today. We had rain all day, so Ron drove my Jeep to work. I walked to the polling place to vote for my state Senator today, and when Ron got home after work I went to the gun shop for a ladies night shoot with 3 of my girl friends... 9pm dark rainy drive home... and so... nothing new to draw, pulled a couple of shells from my box of shells and drew them... it's a drawing, it's still May, I think it counts.

May28Art

We had a quiet Memorial Day, went out to lunch and Ron got 10 free wings as a veteran... it was really nice. We worked in the yard cutting grass, planting flowers...
The mailbox ... perspective gave me fits... cross hatched the shadows to cover up my bad lines.

May27Art

We do not have wimpy clouds like this, but the prussian blue got away from me and it is so staining, I couldn't lift it... and it soaked in and dried up way faster than I thought it would. I should have stayed in the house and painted the clouds out my window... maybe that would have worked better.
We lost our oldest kitty today, we don't really know how old Millie was, we've had her 13 years, and she was full grown when we got her at the pound. She was a sweet cat, we buried her in the garden at the side of the house... she used to sit in the window and watch the birds and butterflies in this section of the yard, she was always a house cat, so now she is in the garden at last.

May26Art

This was a tough assignment, I cook simple stuff, meat, potatoes, vegetables a salad maybe. Something I've been thinking about making just need the cheese and pimentos.. LOL is some good homemade pimento cheese.  i don't much care for store bought pimento cheese, too much mayo not enough cheese.  I like to grate my own cheese too, I think it tastes better.