Saturday, April 13, 2013

SpringBreak

As the year winds down, I find myself trying to plan projects for Summer.  There is a likelihood that I will have a large room for a studio.  I envision a drafting table, a desk, storage shelves, space for computer and scanner, and easel. It will be amazing to move beyond the tiny pages of my sketchbooks into larger scale works again.







Saturday, April 6, 2013

Last day of Spring break

I spent the day storyboarding a poem that I had published in Backbone Mountain Review and adding a few drawings to the ongoing Rosamund saga.  4 mile walk cleared my head.








Small watercolor sketch on gesso


Watercolor Pencil over Gesso

Coated a page of my moleskine sketchbook with Gesso to prepare for a watercolor sketch. It was interesting working on bright white after only working on eggshell for 6 months.  The gesso made the watercolors seem less translucent. I think I'll go back to just using my moleskine watercolor notebook.
The Derwent watercolor pencils that I got for Christmas seem to be much more saturated then the more expensive prismacolor set I already had.

Thursday, April 4, 2013