watercolor techniques |

Posts Tagged ‘watercolor techniques’

Progress with color techniques- the Queen Califia session

Posted in art,poetry,writing, Desk Crit, San Diego, school, School Work, tagged california, Caliph, Color, desk crits, Drawing, drawing and coloring plen air, Escondido, experiments, history of California, Kit Carson Park, Markers, Mythos, Niki St. Phalle, Queen Califia, Queen Califia's Magical Garden, rendering and Delineation, san diego, sketchbooks, The origins or California, watercolor techniques, Where California got its name on August 26, 2010| Leave a Comment »

From yesterday’s Rendering and Delineation Class. So proud of my color-wary students.

Queen Califia Session

Quen Califia Session II

Queen Califia III

Read the story of the mythical Queen Califia.
California is named after her!

See Niki St. Phalle Sculptural Garden ‘ Queen Califia’s Magical Garden’ in Kit Carson Park, Escondido, California.

Previous posts on the subject:
California and Califia
Listening to Baroque Music in San Francisco
Working with Color
Queen Califia’s Magical Garden {Continued}

Read Full Post »

Artuesday : Paintings of buildings are portraits, too… {c’est fini}

Posted in Architecture, art,poetry,writing, Artuesdays, Drawing, Link Love, Watercolor, tagged architectural rendering, architecture rendering, Artuesdays, legos and art, Link Love, urban homes, Watercolor, watercolor techniques on March 16, 2010| 2 Comments »

Third Street Homes. Final. Watercolor, graphite, Prismacolor pencils. March 16, 2010

I finished my Third Street Homes ‘portraits’ (thankyou Planetary Folklore for the great quote).

Since the last iteration I refined ground and sky, went over the watercolor with Prismacolor pencils to give the homes some texture, bumped up the contrast, pushed the darks a bit and, finally, worked on the vegetation and added the framing branches. You can see the first and second step here. C’est fini.

Speaking of buildings, here is an artist who goes around the world fixing crumbling buildings with Legos. (!)

The topic of these first three Artuesdays has been watercolor, and I would like to share the work of some very talented folks who are inspiring me for future paintings, in subject matter or technique:

Small Oil Paintings

Linda Halcomb

A Painting Today

Art and Design Studios

Read Full Post »

Celebrating 13 Years!
Add a Flower
- 175,140 unique flowers
I [ n s t a g r ] A M : @sketchbloom
Flowers By eMail

Voilá. One-click sign up to get SketchBloom delivered right to your door. Enter your email...

Email Address:

Join 724 other subscribers
Where in the world…
Share & Subscribe
Favorite drawings, paintings, collages and handwork on SketchBloom

Ink on tracing paper. Kuwait, January 2010. The scene at the bottom is what I saw-or decided to see- at The Avenues, the most popular malla in Kuwait City. There is nothing like seeing photography and drawings from a trip abroad to make you realize all reality is subjective, and we choose to see what we want to. We just don’t realize it in our own backyard.

Dr. Gregory House. Watercolor on Paper. June 3, 2010

Baggalini Red.

Miniature Pomegranate. Watercolor on chocolate wrap. Kuwait. January 2010

Final Twomoons Piece, Summer 2008

Ink on Paper. Calabria, Italia. September 29, 2011.

Casa Del Fascio, contrast corrected thru Photoshop, Como, 2007

The Sun, the Moon, and on there being no abstracts in life. Pencil, ink, watercolor on 4″X5″ canvas.2009

Pilot Pen on Paper. November 2009

Coffee Carrier (delle). Graphite on paper. Kuwait. January 2010

Ink on Paper. December 2010.

Platonic Solid Exercise. Graphite on Paper. 2007

Barcelona Chairs by Mies Van De Rohe, 1929 @ the CED Library in Berkeley

Twomoons Wax Proof-modeled after concept sketch

Felt tip on paper. March 22, 2011.

Persimmon- very quick pastel rendering. November 12, 2009.

our very own coffee cart @ NewSchool: Cafe’ A la Carte

Concept for jewelry piece ‘twomoons’

Earth and Water. Beads and yarn. June 24, 2011

Waiting for Godot | Static Head. Digital Collage. May 5th, 2010

Ink and watercolor on paper and tracing paper. A bit of digital manipulation. Feb. 09,2011.

Ink on Paper. September 2009

The Fortress of Lost Time. Graphite on paper and magazine cutouts. December 27, 2010. Miti and Gianni Aiello.

The funambulist. Ink drawing + digital collage. August 2011.

July 27, San Diego Museum Of Art. The Age of Enlightenment – Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breuteuil, Marquise du Chatelet by Yinka Shonibare- Ink on hand.book paper

Pencil and Watercolor on canvas

Ink on Paper. December 2010.

Earth Henna, Eucalyptus Oil. May 2, 2010.

Queen Califia’s Garden, Totem/Sculpture. Ink, color pencils and markers. 2009

Graphite on paper and magazine cutouts. December 27, 2010. Miti and Gianni Aiello.

Watercolor on paper. June 3, 2010

Mare Mosso Act II. Graphite drawing by Gianni Aiello. Collage. March 18,2011

Collage, Pilot Pen on Paper

Mare Mosso Act III. Graphite and pen drawing by Gianni Aiello. Collag and pastel. March 19, 2011.

Pilot pen on paper. January 2011

Watercolor and Graphite. November 12, 2009

Ink on hand.book paper. Paris, 2011.
Paintings & Collages
Drawings
Photography
Assorted, Loved Posts {check them out}

Fresh Bloomings

	Neesaun Zarbakhat on Quotes from Jeremy Till’…
	Fleta Chain on Remembrance of Things Past, an…
	Damian Black on Koa and Bone II (and on once b…
	sketchbloom on This is not Art {on any given…
	Bernard on This is not Art {on any given…
	Itgelt nyamsuren on Fall Watercolors
	sketchbloom on A (hard) Summer of Art {What I…