Daily Sketch Reprise: Lazy Saturday Afternoon
It’s Giuseppe in the front in teal, Mewsette draped off the edge in green, and Jelly Bean in purple. Rather than use the colors I associate with each of them, these colors came about because of the reflections on each of them from the window light, the mirror behind them and the walls. I hadn’t intended to do them in different colors though! This time I actually wanted them to be purple, maybe, with tints of other colors, but here we are again.
No watercolor pencils this time, no pencil lines, just the colors and a brush and three cats having a really good afternoon nap on top of the wardrobe—so good they stayed still long enough for me to paint the basics before they moved. This is a first for me (not them, they nap all the time)—I have never been able to watercolor without an underlying pencil sketch. I’ve never put the brush to paper and felt I had enough control to just paint in watercolors. I have to credit all the daily experience of my daily sketches with giving me this confidence and control. My goal was this loose quality, though, just enough to indicate their shapes and positions, no more.
I have also set up an all-in-one scanner/printer etc. in my studio with much better scan and print quality than the cheap thing I have downstairs. A friend “donated” it to me when they went wireless, and all the better for me! Aside from a little shadowing and distortion from the slightly rippled watercolor paper it’s spot-on for color. The scanner bed is a little small, but I’ll be happy to quit complaining about how bad my scanner is and apologizing for inaccurate color!
I spent more time than I’d planned in playing around with the new printer and haven’t downloaded today’s photos…I’ll have to make up for it tomorrow. That and Giuseppe rolling around all over my work table, and of course I couldn’t move him, so not as much got done as I’d have liked. But I got a nice painting.
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I’ve sold the original but I still offer prints of this painting in my Etsy shop, and I’ve been working up other products with it—canvas prints, placemats, pillow covers, even a garden flag—but it’s not been a good fit for some, and kind of expensive with others. We’ll see how it all works out.
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Have been so enjoying my visual memory of this bright drawing since I saw it on Sunday, that I had to come back for another look.. n to say Thanks.
I love this bright sunny-looking image. xxx
… watercolour!! Only looked closely again after writing comment. Had visualised pastels.
This watercolor is so relaxation-inducing that when it downloaded, I almost went limp and fell off my chair!
relaxation-inducing: formerly known as relaxing.
Meg, you should like this even better now that I finally uploaded the “final” scan. The original caught the rippled watercolor paper with ugly shadows, then later, before I had prints made, I had flattened it out and scanned it again.
I would not throw either scan out of bed for eating crackers.
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