#StudioChat #ArtPost #WatercolorArt #Illustration
Every morning, I play #Artle - kind of like wordle, but it's art (the National Gallery of Art, I think, is the page host). Anyway, i'm running across new art &artists, as well as classics.
Yesterday I ran across Rachel Whitehead, an artist I heard about in the 80's, who makes casts of indoor spaces and I'm pretty sure she was the first contemporary conceptual artist who caught my attention in any significant way. I liked how she described +
(cont) her work and it made me think about different ways to explore subjects.
I think a lot, lately, about the work I'm not doing to explore my own creativity, so today I made notes on visual motifs I want to explore, and ideas I want to develop in iterations. Also learned to illustrate a realistic pearl in my journaling app - Zinnia. Who. Knew?
That sounds distracting, from the work on my plate, especially with upcoming commission work.
but It's also motivating and energizing.(yay)
The +
#watercolor swatch on the first post is my way of reassuring myself this paper is Not, in fact, a mistake.
You can't work wet-in-wet. Glazing is mostly .... lifting (😬 ). Pens don't like it. But it's "exactly" what you need if you want to make a non-granulating paint do "weird"
(bonus, it's useful weird. Backgrounds, anyone?)
it's a Fabriano/Blick collaborative product, affordable, acid free. Avoid realism, use for experiments, and just goof around. Gonna see what it does to wet ink next!
anyway, that's all that's shaking here. Trying to stay inspired, and get more pages done.
Hope you're all well out there! And if you're working on something - feel free to share! especially if it's gone kinda strange 💖 😁 💖
Shari Emerson