09-05-2014, 05:15 PM
Thanks guys... and sorry... .
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From last last weekend, Carl Schurz Park Waterfront. Trying to study the rain-like, rolling clouds, and experimenting if I could use the effects of dipping regular ink pen on wet watercolor paper. Conclusion: not really. The marks looked like grey pimples with a black head.
Last last weekend also, a screen study of Raider of the Lost Arc, and an accidental tomato with weird, web-like internal structure. Edible nonetheless.
Last weekend, Housatonic Meadows State Park. I managed to snatch these sketches of brilliant mushrooms everywhere in an adjacent woods. There were more - smoky green, blushing pink, feathery brown, cherry red, etc - but art time was few and fleeting. I was somewhat surprised they tolerated my insistence on lonesomeness while they all went to bond over playing ball. I consider this a practice in field sketching. If I'd done a decent job, these mushrooms will be identifiable based on their sketches.
Just now. More free art for the Buddhist Center. They're gonna use them for presentation to the Master of the Dharma Masters at the main temple in Canada when they make the trip tomorrow. If I'm not waiting to hear back - if at all - from that part time job at B&N, I'd have signed up to go in person too. Second worse scenario would be part time calls me to go in for work while I'm in Canada. Worst scenario would be I got neither the job nor the chance to go to the main temple. ... I shall take solace in my indirect, pigment presence.
Some bitching about this project: The color paper they want didn't take paint well. The opaque gouache I had to get for painting over color paper was cheap, and close to crap - blue and red didn't really made purple. It made some dark color great for black tulip, but adding white produced some mud grey instead of a lighter purple. It still took multiple layers to cover the paper color, which buckled the paper a lot. I was also trying to blend it like watercolor. It didn't work. While the paint was still solvable, they blend like coarse sand and soil. They had to be layered like cut paper of very similar hues. Gouache is a different process that's a cross between watercolor and acrylics.
I need to do more digital dammit.
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From last last weekend, Carl Schurz Park Waterfront. Trying to study the rain-like, rolling clouds, and experimenting if I could use the effects of dipping regular ink pen on wet watercolor paper. Conclusion: not really. The marks looked like grey pimples with a black head.
Last last weekend also, a screen study of Raider of the Lost Arc, and an accidental tomato with weird, web-like internal structure. Edible nonetheless.
Last weekend, Housatonic Meadows State Park. I managed to snatch these sketches of brilliant mushrooms everywhere in an adjacent woods. There were more - smoky green, blushing pink, feathery brown, cherry red, etc - but art time was few and fleeting. I was somewhat surprised they tolerated my insistence on lonesomeness while they all went to bond over playing ball. I consider this a practice in field sketching. If I'd done a decent job, these mushrooms will be identifiable based on their sketches.
Just now. More free art for the Buddhist Center. They're gonna use them for presentation to the Master of the Dharma Masters at the main temple in Canada when they make the trip tomorrow. If I'm not waiting to hear back - if at all - from that part time job at B&N, I'd have signed up to go in person too. Second worse scenario would be part time calls me to go in for work while I'm in Canada. Worst scenario would be I got neither the job nor the chance to go to the main temple. ... I shall take solace in my indirect, pigment presence.
Some bitching about this project: The color paper they want didn't take paint well. The opaque gouache I had to get for painting over color paper was cheap, and close to crap - blue and red didn't really made purple. It made some dark color great for black tulip, but adding white produced some mud grey instead of a lighter purple. It still took multiple layers to cover the paper color, which buckled the paper a lot. I was also trying to blend it like watercolor. It didn't work. While the paint was still solvable, they blend like coarse sand and soil. They had to be layered like cut paper of very similar hues. Gouache is a different process that's a cross between watercolor and acrylics.
I need to do more digital dammit.