SVS Virtual Studio JUNE 2022🌞
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@Mary-Toth I have gone back and forth between cold press and hotpress papers, liking the first better for watercolor and the second better for the ink. Right now I'm mostly painting in a Pentalic Aqua Journal which might be kind of like the softpress paper you describe because it is coldpress but not as rough as Arches so it works better for the kind of line and wash I usually do.
I've used watercolor pencils but never inktense pencils. I looked them up and they look interesting -- I'll have to give them a try.
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This is slightly random, but I'm taking a break from my children's book work and moving through the foundation courses, and am kind of speeding through the first one on colour. There was an exercise on colour harmony which involved colouring the teacher's work, which was a bit too boring for me, so I decided to do some rabbit studies that double as colour harmony exercises in preparation for next month's prompt. I realize I haven't tried rendering realistic fur digitally since I got back into doing art regularly so this was fun trying to figure out what brushes work.
They are very creatively named the "complementary hare", the "analogous bunny", and the "monochromatic rabbit"
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Made this for my portfolio
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@Jeremy-Ross that’s great Jeremy!
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Thanks @Asyas_illos!
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I have a whole list of character ideas around animals. This one was not the first I’ve drawn but it was the first idea at the top of my list. They’re rough sketches, but I like it the way it is.
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Thought of this. I think this would make a nice t-shirt design.
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I'm glad we have June off from contest prep. This month has been nuts. I'm taking classes, doing crits, hosting family, traveling for a mural project, lining up freelance work, and trying to keep my head on straight.
Last week I got an unexpected sunny Sunday afternoon free in Brooklyn. I took myself for a sketch and wander around the Green Wood Cemetery, and discovered that digital plein aire paintings are a ton of fun. It's so much more intuitive for me to get value and color relationships right when I'm using a color picker instead of mixing gouache on a palette.
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@Jeremy-Ross Love it!! It's giving me Lee White watercolor meets Oliver Jeffers vibes
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@Valerie-Light Yes David Hockney takes his I-Pad out for this kind of work. If you don't know him, he is really the longest living current British artist who has been famous since the 1960's. A great portrait and landscape artist and painter who uses colour beautifully.
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@Valerie-Light lovely, I wondered about digital plein air also, didn’t no if it was frowned upon lol.
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Hey guys! I thought I'd share this mural project that I've just finished for my hometown
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@Asyas_illos I started following some digital plein air hashtags on Insta, including #warriorpainters, and it's so inspiring! Who cares if it's frowned upon, it's super portable and great practice!
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@Valerie-Light Yes, being creative should never be frowned upon! At least artists are putting something positive into the world other than frowns! Ha ha.
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@Valerie-Light those are lovely
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@Asyas_illos not really frowned upon but it's hard to see the colours on your screen under the bright sunlight
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We've come down with a nasty bug, oh the joys of having kids in school lol. Haven't had much get up and go , but did these sketches.
My cross hatch game is weak, but it was fun none the less.
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@ArtMelC true I hadn’t th out of that, maybe an umbrella would help?
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@ArtMelC This is so true
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@Asyas_illos This may really work! I had tried to go outside to paint but had this issue with my ipad so I had to stay close to a tree. An umbrella sounds like a good idea, but it may bother a bit because you usually use both hands to use the hand gestures on the ipad while you paint and it may make it lose the point of the iPad being "something portable to paint".
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@HeatherB Congrats on a book deal! I love these little critters! When the project is complete, it would make a cute nursery poster/ print to sell if your contract allows.
