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Special
tools are important.
My artist friend Rebecca York,
http://www.RimrockCreations.com
works in glass mosaic and gave me a fun
melted Saki bottle ornamented with beads and copper wire. It’s a
perfect surface for serving sushi, but I leave sushi to the experts and
use it for holding a favorite color when painting.
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also my little
antique bottle. It was old when I bought it in high school, so that
makes it practically prehistoric. It is saved for the Color of Colors:
Quinacridone Gold. So with my coveted containers plus a needle nosed
squeeze bottle and a natural sponge, I’m ready to play with loose
techniques and texture.
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Beginning
with a full sheet of cold pressed 140# Arches watercolor
paper, rimmed with blue painter’s tape, I drip and pour several colors
around the paper and let it merge, pull some areas out with a brush,
then dry completely.
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Next
I glaze over several yellows and blues to suggest something having
both to do with the sky and the sea.
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Then using a great little stick
called “A Bottle of Ink in a Pencil” I bring contrast and emphasis to
certain areas.
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This
tool is made by Sanford. It’s also called Noblot
Ink Pencil 705.
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This looks like an ordinary pencil until it gets wet,
when it turns blue and smears a bit. So fun.
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hope you enjoy the close-ups and the whole painting. Keep making art
in your life!
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