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Stacy Creates: August 2013
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Monday, August 12, 2013. Keeping Motivated for a Daily Art Practice. What keeps you motivated for a daily art practice? Do you keep a daily Artist's Journal? I love to keep one where I sketch in pen and watercolor, and it's a great place to paint what inspires you for that day, try out new subjects or techniques, record what you see during an outing.the possibilities are endless! One recent morning I noticed beautiful morning light streaming into the kitchen counter so I grabbed some berries from the ref...
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Stacy Creates: Fun with my new Chacos
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Fun with my new Chacos. I'm a big fan of Chacos, I have been wearing them for 10 years. But I'm not the kind of fan that has to have 20 pairs of my favorite shoe- no just one pair is fine with me. Well my favorite pair recently died on me, after nursing them along for 10 years with one resole and one re-webbing. So I recently got new ones, and wanted to "commemorate" them with a painting. I'm not that big into Still Life as an artist, but for Chacos I will make an exception.
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Stacy Creates: September 2013
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Friday, September 6, 2013. Painting Animal Portraits from Photographs. In one of the Facebook artist groups I belong to they asked anyone who is experienced in drawing and painting live creatures to write an article about their process. As I have some experience photographing and painting pet portraits, I answered the call with this article: Painting Animal Portraits from Photographs.pdf. I hope you find it useful! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Go Carefully (Trip Beta).
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Stacy Creates: March 2014
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Saturday, March 15, 2014. What do you see in your blobs? One of the artists I admire and whose blog I've been following for some time is Karen Blados. I was first drawn years ago to her precisely-drawn sketchbook pages, but in recent months I've noticed an evolution in her art. Now I am seeing her be a lot more free with the paint, and it looks wonderful! One particular post (" Kind of Controlled Chaos. Though I would have loved to draw in cone flowers like Karen did in her work (I just love cone flowers!
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Stacy Creates: January 2014
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Monday, January 27, 2014. Keeping Three Concurrent Art Journals. Ostrich in my everyday Artist's Journal. In your sketch practice do you like to keep just one sketchbook going or do you like to work in multiple sketchbooks at a time? Inspired by Cathy Johnson's preference expressed in her wonderful book Artist Journal Workshop. But as much as I've tried, I just can't seem to do that. I am finally coming to the understanding that for me, this means keeping (at least) three journals at the same time:.
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Stacy Creates: August 2014
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Saturday, August 2, 2014. Birds of Paradise, 8x10" ink and watercolor on Fabriano HP. As I prepared to paint these birds of paradise, I realized that I should try to make the greens more colorful than I usually do. I had been reading Penny Soto's book Painting Glowing Colors in Watercolor. In which she demonstrates a technique for underpainting then overpainting your subjects. While I am familiar with underpainting, I am just now realizing how fun it is to make them really colorful! In my winding path th...
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Stacy Creates: Wax Resist on Yupo Paper
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015. Wax Resist on Yupo Paper. I want to share with you a really fun technique for watercolor painting on Yupo paper using a wax resist. See those wonderful white lines in this painting of a ukulele? That is from wax! How did I get them? It's really very easy! Here is what you need:. Wax paper for baking. A drawing or printed copy of a photograph that you want to paint, at the size you want your painting to be. The process is simple:. Remove the drawing and the wax paper and paint!
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Stacy Creates: Colorful Greens
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Saturday, August 2, 2014. Birds of Paradise, 8x10" ink and watercolor on Fabriano HP. As I prepared to paint these birds of paradise, I realized that I should try to make the greens more colorful than I usually do. I had been reading Penny Soto's book Painting Glowing Colors in Watercolor. In which she demonstrates a technique for underpainting then overpainting your subjects. While I am familiar with underpainting, I am just now realizing how fun it is to make them really colorful! In my winding path th...
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Stacy Creates: January 2015
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015. Wax Resist on Yupo Paper. I want to share with you a really fun technique for watercolor painting on Yupo paper using a wax resist. See those wonderful white lines in this painting of a ukulele? That is from wax! How did I get them? It's really very easy! Here is what you need:. Wax paper for baking. A drawing or printed copy of a photograph that you want to paint, at the size you want your painting to be. The process is simple:. Remove the drawing and the wax paper and paint!
