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Watercolor tryouts

I’ve really been enjoy­ing water color lately. For years I’ve pri­mar­ily used acrylics on wood and can­vas. I still love paint­ing with acrylics but recently water­col­ors have ener­gized my cre­ativ­ity level 100%. It feels very free and loose, and no wor­ries of 10 lay­ers of acrylic paint to achieve matte rich colors.

Below are my first two projects..

A col­lab­o­ra­tion illus­tra­tion in ben­e­fit for the won­der­ful Island Fold and their gra­cious artist retreat ser­vices they pro­vide. I have yet to take advan­tage of their hos­pi­tal­ity but I think I’ll have to visit very soon.

More about Island Fold and the project here. Islands Fold

Hol­bein WC + Staedtler pig­ment liner

Here is my sec­ond water­color, a present for my wife.

Hol­bein WC + Staedtler pig­ment liner

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One Response to “Watercolor tryouts”

  1. norman says:
    September 1, 2008 at 9:25 AM

    okay

    so since you STILL HAVEN’T SEEN MITS
    i’ll tell you that the proper tools used back in the day would have been dr. martin’s dyes and a draft­ing pen.

    rapi­do­graphs sure changed the look of car­toon­ing and illus­tra­tion. i think they’re the rea­son every­one for­got about line qual­ity. per­haps charles burns woke every­one back up?

    the dyes are GREAT, but they will not last…