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Beach. I watched a few YouTube videos by Lena Rivo @lenarivo during which she paints so that you can see her approach. They are really wonderful and I highly recommend them. In one of them, she talks about painting on Canson mi-teinte paper saying that it takes water pretty …
At war with crayons. As a child I was so very frustrated with my wax crayola crayons - the white background paper bits that wouldn’t take the colour, the poor pigment load, the poor blending, impossible detail…Is there a more frustrating art media? Yes actually- the dried up…
Dancing rose version 4. This was painted directly on a black background in a wc sketchbook (5” x 8”). #drawing #sketching #dailysketch #canadaart #canadaartist #montrealart #montrealartist #art #freehandsketch #freehanddrawing #quebecart #quebecartist #flowerart #flowerpaint…
The swim. Another thing I finished today. Bought myself the biggest Moleskin watercolour sketchbook available for my portraits. The idea is to practice both small (as per my previous posts) where I can only draw the face and big (here) where overall dimensions are closer to …
Fire in the house. Practicing the use of greys and shadows. Thank you to Aysegul Alp @aysglaytrn07 for the inspiring picture from Pexels. Alla prima oil painting on gesso-primed canvas boad toned with orange acrylic (9” x 12”). #drawing #sketching #dailysketch #canadaart #ca…
Oh-My-God. Not my original intention - took a wrong turn and turned it into something more abstract. It’s fit to be a poster for zombieland. Made lemonade here. Pastel pencils on dark blue Pastelmat pastel paper (6” x 8”). #drawing #sketching #dailysketch #canadaart #canadaa…
Floating flowers. Thank you Nadezhda Moryak @nadimoryak for the inspiring picture from Pexels. This is a freehand pencil sketch in HB graphite then painted in watercolours (10 x 14”) on Arches cp wc paper. #drawing #sketching #dailysketch #canadaart #canadaartist #montrealar…
Another watercolour snow scene. This is another exercise from Grahame Booth’s book “Watercolour Snow Scenes” (@grahameboothwatercolour). This is a freehand pencil sketch in HB graphite then painted in watercolours (6” x 9”) on Arches cp wc paper. #drawing #sketching #dailysk…
Winter sun. Thank you to Baskin Creative @baskincreative for this inspiring picture on Pexels. This is a freehand pencil sketch in HB graphite then painted in watercolours (6” x 9”) on Arches cp wc paper. #drawing #sketching #dailysketch #canadaart #canadaartist #montrealart…
Portrait of a young boy in watercolour. Thank you to KRISHNA GURUNG for this inspiring picture on Pexels. This is a freehand pencil sketch in HB graphite then painted in watercolours (9” x 12”) on Arches cp wc paper. #drawing #sketching #dailysketch #canadaart #canadaartist …