"Cranes and Sky" Gouache in Canson watercolor sketchbook, 140 lb., cold press |
Just to prove to myself I don't have to add lines like I did with the images in the last two posts of the Stockman House and the sandhill cranes. A looser approach.
I was a nineteen-year-old university student when I met Sally, a white-haired, bandana-wearing woman in her sixties. She was pursuing an MFA in painting. She was so exuberant about creating art that she inspired me to decide I would become an artist, too, once I came closer to retirement. Forty years later, it’s time. As I climb an intentional learning curve in art, I share these posts to keep myself accountable. May my efforts inspire others the way Sally inspired me.
"Cranes and Sky" Gouache in Canson watercolor sketchbook, 140 lb., cold press |
"Frank Lloyd Wright's Stockman House" Watercolor and ink on 8x8" Coldpress Fluid Watercolor paper |
Value Study for "Stockman House" in Stillman and Birn Sketchbook, Mixed Media, Heavyweight/White/Smooth surface |
"Sandhill Cranes 2" watercolor and ink on 6"x4.5" Arches Hot Pressed watercolor paper, 140# |
"Sandhill Cranes 1" watercolor and ink in Beta Series Stillman Birn Sketchbook, Mixed Media, 5.5"x8/5" Extra Heavyweight, Cold Press Surface |
"Orange is the New Joy2" Micron 01 pen with watercolor on Stonehenge Aqua Hotpress |
"Orange is the New Joy1" with Micron 01 pen and watercolor in Stillman & Birn Sketchbook, 5.5" x 8.5" in., Epsilon Series |
“Last Call for Winter” watercolor on 7x10” Stonehenge Aqua Hotpress |
Earlier draft of “Last Call for Winter” watercolor on 5.5”x8.5” Canson Watercolor Cold Press paper |
I met Sally forty years ago when I was twenty and she was the one in her sixties. I was a waitress at a Howard Johnson’s restaurant on...