Landscape Week!
It was LANDSCAPE WEEK at ART HANG PARTY! With special IRL guests!
Week after week ART HANG PARTY! is always fun. I always end the session thinking “that might be the most fun one yet!”. But this week we had some in-person guests with us, and I’m going to say it again: that might be the most fun one yet!
Regulars might recognize the names Greenalligators (aka Vicky) and Shawna from the chat. They came over to paint with us live while Ray played some music for us!
We kept the timer short and powered through 24 x 2-minute landscapes in 90 minutes 😅
I’m excited to watch the replay back to see and listen to the craziness, LOL.
Next ART HANG PARTY! will be Thursday, July 27 at 7pm et on YouTube & Twitch
Theme: BUGS!
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THIS WEEK IN MY SKETCHBOOK
Saturday July 15
I was feeling like it had been a while since I played with acrylic inks in my sketchbook, so I decided to do a fun scribbly landscape based on a photo I took at Trillium Park during my morning run.
Sunday July 16
I did not make any art this day (aside from my self portrait) as I filmed and edited another video for YouTube about my fav art books.
Monday July 17
After dinner we packed up and headed over to the marina-side of the Music Garden. I wasn’t in the mood to pull out all the things, so I decided to go with an inky sketch of the city view, something I rarely do.
Tuesday July 18
Oh look 👀, new art supplies! I ordered a little “landscape” collection of Faber-Castell Pitt brush markers, thinking they’d be great to take outside to use in place of gouache as an underpainting.
This is me having a first play with them:
I feel incredibly lucky that Ray enjoys sitting outside as much as I do. In fact, it’s usually him who suggests it!
We decided to keep it simple and headed to the park across the street, to a spot we haven’t sat at yet. There happened to be a gentleman sitting in the bench right in my view, so it was decided for me that I’d be adding him into my painting. He was very accommodating and sat relatively still the entire time. No idea if he knew I was drawing him, but for sure he knew I was drawing because all the supplies were everywhere. If he did he didn’t seem to mind.
I used gouache, coloured pencils and wax pastels.
Wednesday July 19
We took the afternoon off and went to Toronto Island!
While Ray and Simon were playing fetch in the water I sat down for a quick watercolour sketch in my little sketchbook:
Then we found a picnic bench to chill at for a couple of bevvies and some sketchbook time. I used my new Pitt markers as my base for these landscape doodles, which I wasn’t really loving on their own, but then added wax pastels on top and liked them much better.
And then I used watercolour as my base for this tree. I only had a water brush with me, which was very quickly running out of water. The portrait is of Ray with I drew with watercolour using a twig that was sitting on the table!
Thursday July 20
ART HANG PARTY! day!
Friday July 21
It’s been a while since I made a repeating pattern. I really enjoy the process of making shapes with washes of watercolour, then doing details using colour pencil, but disconnected and separate from the watercolour. And then I scan them, turn them into vectors, and play around until I have a pattern.
Let me try to show you… This is the original artwork that I scanned into my computer:
This is what it looks like after I cleaned it up in Photoshop, and then brought it into Illustrator and used image trace:
After a LOT of fussing, I end up with a pattern, like this!
And I make mockups to illustrate how it could look if a company were to purchase it:
Fun, right?
And then during my regular art time I had a scribbly time with my sketchbook:
SELF PORTRAITS
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
BONUS VIDEO!
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Alrighty, that’s enough from me this week - stay creative!