while i was on my fevered search for my gouache palette card yesterday, i came across a few things buried under the rubble. one was this little pocket moleskine. it reminded me of my car sketching days and made me want to drive off into the italian countryside and paint one epic landscape after the next.
oh wait. maybe that was this, my latest art book purchase that made me want to do that. yes, i think so! pam brought this to the art retreat. i was smitten immediately.
simply fabulous! if you love sketchbooks you might feel you need it. you’d be right. you do! go ahead, splurge!
it’s the kind of book that could provide years worth of viewing pleasure. i was so glad when mine arrived a few days ago. even better than i remembered. now i want to know more about the artist, anne desmet.
i added some more schmincke gouache to my palette. next weekend i’ll do a bit of mixing of gum arabic with the holbein colors. schmincke is the only gouache i’ve used that doesn’t crumble and crack. it is marvelous, but the colors are limited.
now i’m wondering where the white gouache i squeezed into a small altoid tin has gotten off to. i suppose i’ll have to search for it.
i took a thorough inventory of the sketchbooks that i’m currently using. the page above had a rough portrait on it that displeased me v.v. much. so i painted over it with black gouache and added some letters from one of my cursive books.
a quick sketch with leftover paint on my palette. which i made while chatting with ma sister.
an old page i’d forgotten about…
and my bookcase page.
we’re leaning into sunday night here in the west. i’m leaving my pile of sketchbooks on my art table. i have another bookcase scene i’ll start on tomorrow. thaz it!
i wonder what you’re painting drawing making. heartbreaking works of staggering genius to be sure. keep me posted.
106 birds!!! an impressive feat.
i bow to you!
It is always such pleasure to read your meandering and sharing.
Just plain THANK YOU!
well i do love reading comments so just plain THANK YOU!
Love when you are searching for something in particular and you come across ten other wonderful things you have forgotten about! Sometimes being unorganized can be fun!!
That sketchbook looks worth checking into, and I shall! Your book paintings are some of my favorites, Mary Ann. You inspired me to paint a book, which is now one of my own favorites.
Last night I took on just a tiny watercolor of a single rose, which didn’t turn out as I envisioned, but at least I put paint to paper. Use it or lose it? It’s funny, but I paint to de-stress, BUT if I am under too much stress, I just dry up. What I really need is a PRIVATE place to paint, too, because upstairs is my husband who walks by and makes comments, (not always helpful or encouraging) and downstairs is the cat, who has had health issues. I could go into a bedroom downstairs and close the cat out, but then she stands outside the door scratching and yowling. In this large house there is no privacy to be had. I fantasize about an outdoor studio, even a shed, where I have no distractions and can play music as loudly as I like, with no one to comment from the peanut gallery. Incidentally, Peanut is my cats name. See what I did there? Sigh…
peanuts. here kitty kitty!
Where might I find this luscious book?
Here is the Amazon link, RoseMary. https://www.amazon.com/Anne-Desmet-Italian-Journey/dp/1910350540/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1516639512&sr=1-1&keywords=anne+desmet
I put together some collage backgrounds in the art journal I’ll be playing in next, while watching the Eagles win the playoffs yesterday. I’ve been coloring, designing, and drawing. No big works in progress now. But something is better than nothing, Mary Ann!
it’s the little things!
someone said that once.
Splurge I did …bought gouache paints seeing yours they look more luscious than the watercolours I usually use. have been working on painting birds using a small pentallic watercolour book am at bird number 106 !!! although for the past 2 months have been bird out!!!
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