Let’s Draw WATER!

Plus a peek in my sketchbook & what I've been up to 👀

THURSDAY, JULY 9 @ 7:00PM ET on YouTube

This week we are slowing down in order to tackle a universally challenging subject: water!

We will only have 4 reference photos that we will study for 15 minutes each (I originally said 20 minutes but I’ve been feeling like 60 minutes is my max lately).

I tried to find photos from my camera roll where the water was the focus and with different textures to it. I think I’m planning to use some new gouache I got this week, but also pastels are calling my name, so time will tell!

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MONDAY JUNE 29

It’s officially plein air season! Now to remember how to capture a scene from life…

Yesterday & today’s self portrait

TUESDAY JUNE 30

I realize looking at this now that because I was using gouache I could have corrected that beefy flag pole. Ah well, still lovely to sit outside in the evening feeling the wind off the lake. Not so lovely: the giant ants that were crawling all over us!

Today’s self portrait

I got a set of Rosa Gallery gouache that I swatched out here

WEDNESDAY JULY 1 🇨🇦

Happy Canada Day! What a treat to have a holiday fall in the middle of the week!

Today felt like we were on vacation in Jamaica. You know that feeling of walking out of your resort hotel room and into a wall of hot air? That’s what it was like as soon as we stepped outside. Even though it was 35°C 45°C with humidity, Ray and I decided to brave it and go to Kensington Market for lunch.

We watched the England v Congo DR game with sweat running down our back, enjoying a cold bevvie and the best grilled cheese of my life. We were inside but the windows were open so we might as well have been on the patio, which still contributed to vacation vibes.

THURSDAY JULY 2

Today we travelled to Somerset with Mark Vasey at ART HANG PARTY!

I say it every time, but I really love when we get to travel somewhere with an AHP friend, and Mark did not disappoint with his photo selections!

As we do with our travel sessions, we started fast with some 2-minute warm ups, then moved to 5 minutes, then 7 minutes, 10 minutes, and back to 7 for the last one.

I used my teal Uglybook and a black Faber-Castel double-ended marker. I really do enjoy just focusing on lines and shapes and value with these sessions.

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Today’s self portrait

FRIDAY JULY 3

A few days ago I got a set of 9 little tubs of Rosa Gallery’s Studio gouache. (You can see it swatched out on Tuesday’s self portrait above). It was a total spontaneous purchase when I saw it for $14 plus $14 shipping. $30 for 9 x 20ml tubs of gouache? Ok!

I’ve been wanting to play with gouache again, and I really liked the classic colours of this set. It means I need to colour mix and not just rely on the beautiful colours that came in the Spring set of Holbein tubes I have.

I also made a little travel palette where I’m letting the paint dry, so I can use when I’m out and about. It’s been a few days since it’s been drying, and the paint is still a bit sticky, so I’m not sure if it’ll ever fully dry, but I think it’s good enough to close up and put in a bag.

Long story short, here’s a flower I painted with it:

Another spontaneous thing that happened was being given the afternoon off work!

Ray and I trudged through the heat to find a nice shady spot along the water to hang out. There was a nice breeze and lots of people to watch.

I hadn’t unpacked my travel kit from Wednesday yet so I grabbed that before we left.

I realized I only had one spread left in this sketchbook so I treated myself to another:

SATURDAY JULY 4

I took myself to the mall because I was in desperate need for some summer tops. When I got home I recorded and started editing my June Art Chat. No art was made.

Today’s self portrait

SUNDAY JULY 5

Playing with the new Rosa gouache and a photo I snapped at the Music Garden the other day. I’m calling this base-layer one, and plan to come back to it to work on more, with more gouache and probably colour pencils and Neocolor IIs. I’m trying to remember that it’s ok if I don’t finish something in one go!

Today’s self portrait

Also I joined a gym and had my second group workout this morning! I looked like George Constanza after he drank that holistic tea from Tor Eckman 😂

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