Piper 1/9

Piper 1/9

Here are the photos of my challenge sketches from this week! There is a landscape of a creek in the cotswolds my mom and I saw, a towel and a daffodil from last spring. 2. 3.
Rosemary 1/9

Rosemary 1/9

1. Since I’m working with gouache, I started with my fav watercolorists, adding in gouache as needed.  I’m already realizing the difference from transparent watercolor.  It’s great to adjust your values, but not for beautiful transparent...
Susan 1/9

Susan 1/9

1. I’m studying composition this month, using notans. Notans express a painting in the abstract, using black, white and sometimes a middle value. I’m doing multiple takes on 7 of my old Plein aire studies each week. I have to say, it’s a challenge to...
Adrienne 1/9

Adrienne 1/9

4. I took the boat painting below, which I had painted before and slowly added background. This was my progression. 1.. 2. 3. 4.

Sophie 1/2

I’ve been thinking about what I want my January challenge to be, and this past week I was working on a mountain watercolor that didn’t turn out how I thought it would. So I have decided that each week I’m going to do one sketch and one watercolor of that painting to...