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go i took mary ann moss s oh my gouache class which got me painting with gouache as much as transparent watercolors hey did you know that you can buy a set of 18 5 ml tubes of holbein gouache for about 38 on amazon it s true if you ve been thinking you d like to try gouache or take mary ann s class but can t afford it this set may be for you mt shasta from the pacific crest trail a couple of pics from the summer that make me smile big golden mantled ground squirrel i hope this finds you well and painting i m still posting on instagram more or less regularly lynne hoppe happily i do see many of you there the great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life preservers around their necks and more often than not it is the life preserver which sinks them henry miller quoted in life paint and passion by michele cassou and stewart cubley posted by lynne h at 3 49 pm 13 comments monday december 21 2015 watercolor and pencil in strathmore 500 mixed media book i m still here practicing painting loosely with watercolors again we re getting a lot of snow so besides the usual stuff there s much shoveling going on i wanted to wish you happy solstice and a merry holiday season in general i hope you have a beautiful one i continue to dream langston hughes from i continue to dream posted by lynne h at 12 14 pm 24 comments saturday october 31 2015 susan edwards watercolors acrylic paint gouache colored pencil and oil pastel on teabag last january i was asked by the documented life project to be a featured artist at the end of october it seemed so far away at the time interestingly enough i started painting on teabags again in early october which fits right in with the theme for the month translucent papers i m gonna share a project that uses teabags to make prints since i m not someone who likes to work with prompts they created a very broad prompt for the week just create here are the supplies that i used but you really don t need more than watercolors and matte medium 1 watercolors this is my big slant well palette which has watercolors in the front section and gouache in the back you don t have to use both you can use only watercolors or only gouache 2 colored pencils because they can be helpful on tiny paintings 3 white oil pastel i just like using it on faces 4 white gouache white watercolor will work as well 5 blending stump for spreading the oil pastel around 6 liquid matte medium the brushes that i used for painting if you re going to use white oil pastel don t use your good brushes the oil pastel will wreck them what we re going to do is paint on a teabag and make a print from it it s easy and there are no rules you could use water soluble oil pastels or caran d ache neocolor ii crayons instead of watercolors any kind of empty tea bag will work i ll use two kinds one that unfolds and one that doesn t i ll start with one that doesn t i like to use teabags that have already been used but you could empty the tea from a new bag and proceed first i drew the face and shoulders i dressed him in a jacket and tie i used an 8b pencil because it shows up well i ve found that it s good to keep things simple partly because you re working on such a small surface and partly because tiny details are probably not going to show up once you make the print here s what the teabag looked like just after i put white oil pastel on his face for places i couldn t get to with oil pastel and a blending stump i used a white colored pencil i like prismacolors because they re soft if you re not familiar with using watercolors and oil pastels together on faces here s how i do it and you don t have to use white oil pastel for the skin you can use only watercolors or watercolors and gouache i just like the effect of white oil pastel and watercolors together after i put the white oil pastel down i added watercolors and white gouache i have no method for this i just fool around with watercolors and gouache until i like it next i laid the painting face down on a piece of paper i used some 100 cotton printmaking paper that i had you could also put it face down on a page in your journal here i ve squirted liquid matte medium on the back of the teabag and spread it around mushed it in with a 1 2 flat brush until the teabag is completely saturated with matte medium i haven t used matte gel medium for this but i m pretty sure it would work as well when you re sure that the teabag is saturated with medium carefully lift it up and lay it on another piece of paper or on a journal page as you ll see some of the paint from the original will have been transferred to the other piece of paper and you ll have a print i gently pressed the teabag onto another piece of paper all that matte medium glued it in place now let both the teabag and print dry this is what the original and the print looked like just after i picked up the teabag the original looks like it did before i made the print you never know james edwards after the teabag was dry i added a bit of red watercolor to his lips and white gouache to his skin to bring back some highlights i glued the tag down so it wouldn t flop around james edwards younger brother this is the print after i added more white oil pastel and gouache to his face and watercolors here and there i just messed around with him until he felt done now an example of a teabag that can be opened up everything s the same except opening the sides of the teabag after you paint it or you could open the teabag first and then paint it after i opened the teabag laying face down with matte medium slathered on the back i carefully pressed down with the flat brush all over the teabag to make sure the medium had soaked through everywhere the original on the left i pressed it onto a page in my daily book and the print on the right the print is on a 4 x 6 piece of paper that i later stuck in my pochette along with james and his younger brother susan edwards the teabag original after i added more oil pastel watercolors and colored pencil i covered up the hat with ivory acrylic paint because it seemed like she needed a bird on her head instead of a hat jeanette edwards the print after i messed around with it so you can see more detail i put white oil pastel on her skin and then added watercolors i used the black colored pencil to bring a little definition to her eyes she s pretty crazy looking but she seemed to wanna stay that way i think my favorite thing about doing this is that it s an easy way to start two paintings which may or may not end up looking like each other somehow the print usually ends up looking like the alter ego of the original another teabag painting on the left and its print i hope you have fun with this please feel free to ask questions in the comment section or via email if i paint my dog exactly as he is naturally i would have two dogs but not a work of art johann w goethe via tumblr posted by lynne h at 5 30 am 64 comments tuesday september 8 2015 watercolors and gouache in pocket moleskine sketchbook after the last post we had a couple of weeks of hot smoky weather then it cleared up and cooled off and i was outside walking as much as i could seeing what the end of summer looked like in the forest here it is september 8 i finished the pocket moleskine sketchbook i was working in the painting above is one of the last pages instead of buying a new book for my daily book i m using the book i made with arches text wove last post this paper is truly a joy to paint on having the pages be a little thicker is the only improvement i can imagine i m doing pencil drawings on the backs of pages when i don t want anything to show through on the front side watercolors and gouache on arches text wove paintings i did before i made it my daily book watercolors on arches text wove if you research arches text wove you ll often read that it s good for light watercolor washes i ve found it to be good for light and heavy applications of watercolor it s strong paper and colors layer beautifully on it my newest love i read about watercolor paper coming in pochettes which is a fancy way of saying pieces of paper inside a cover i thought aha i can make a pochette watercolors on bfk rives i cut the text block out of an old book then i ripped up sheets of bfk rives printmaking paper and saunders waterford 90 hot press watercolor paper these paintings are on bfk rives a 100 cotton paper that i love i bought the cream color and it is luscious bfk rives on the left and saunders waterford 90 hot press on the right the saunders waterford is smooth but still has a bit of tooth it s the only hot press paper i ve ever tried that i like and it s off white not white which is a big plus for me using the same colors i painted on bfk rives left and in my little arches text wove book i couldn t choose a favorite they re both gorgeous papers the front of my pochette it was a book of fairy tales by nathaniel hawthorne i made the closure with 1 8 elastic and an old button watercolors in strathmore 500 series mixed media journal and one more new paper a 40 off coupon was burning a hole in my pocket when i went to the big city to get my car fixed so i got a soft cover strathmore 500 series mixed media journal again nice paper also 100 cotton and a joy to paint on watercolors and gouache in strathmore 500 series mixed media journal you can buy series 500 mixed media paper in sheets too maybe my biggest painting love the little watercolor book that i take out walking i m almost finished in it there s something special about painting outside and i know i ve said it before flies may be bombarding you and squirrels might scold you continuously until you think they ll have a heart attack but you keep going doing the best you can do while swatting flies and worrying about squirrel heart attacks and one more big love left in this tree which has orange paint on it because it marks the boundary of a partial cut unit in the national forest it s been a wonderful summer for me and i hope it has been for you too ink in pocket moleskine sketchbook quote found on tumblr thanks m posted by lynne h at 10 42 pm 27 comments sunday august 16 2015 watercolors on arches text wove 5 x 6 i decided to practice painting roses realistically before proceeding with painting them loosely i wonder if you can paint flowers or anything loosely without understanding its basic form i think you have to know what something really looks like before you can paint it realistically or loosely what do you think ink and watercolors in pocket moleskine sketchbook in my daily book i ve done a lot of ink and watercolor paintings ink and watercolors in pocket moleskine sketchbook this is j herbin s lie de th é ink because it s not waterproof it bleeds into the watercolors beautifully ink and watercolors in pocket moleskine sketchbook a couple of days ago i looked back at these pages and thought about how much even a tiny bit tells about a particular day it s easy to think that you have to make each page complex or at least something that takes more than a few minutes but no i nk pencil and watercolors in pocket moleskine sketchbook woodpecker feather pencil and watercolors in pocket moleskine sketchbook i used paynes grey and van dyke brown for these feathers i love them together ink and watercolors in arches text wove book the other book that i ve been painting in is one that i made with arches text wove it s a beautiful 100 cotton paper that s widely available in sheets it s quite thin but hardy nothing bleeds through but you can see dark images faintly on the back side of the page watercolors and ink are a dream on it calligraphers use it a lot ink and watercolors in arches text wove book i mostly made the book for drawing faces with ink that s leftover in the dip pen when i m done drawing writing i draw as much of the face as i can before i run out of ink but i can see that i m gonna be using it for other things too it s sweeeet paper pencil and watercolors in arches text wove book this is a poor pic but pencil is nice on it too to make the book i followed a link on seth s blog to jose naranja s post about bookbinding he takes the paper out of pocket moleskines and puts good paper back inside the cover i took the text block paper out of an unfinished pocket handbook that i had it isn t perfect but it turned out pretty good i wouldn t buy a new book just for the cover but the handbook was languishing in the closet when it hasn t been hot i ve been out walking that s the badass paint set sitting on a rock waiting for me to finish taking pictures a new butterfly for me it looks kind of like a yellow swallowtail but it s not instagram thanks to the help of lisa graham and kathy dorfer i ve been posting pictures there i haven t totally figured it out but sort of i m thinking about doing it instead of blogging or not i haven t decided i don t think i ll do both anyway i m lynne hoppe if you re there occasionally in times of worry i ve longed to be stylish but on second thought i say no just let me be myself and express rough yet true things with rough workmanship vincent van gogh in a letter to theo march 11 1882 posted by lynne h at 6 05 pm 26 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom instagram lynne h view my complete profile i am happy to answer questions about technique or materials please feel free to ask here or email me i work primarily in books using watercolors gouache pastels soft and oil graphite and colored pencils i also love to work on muslin and plaster cloth and when i m out walking i draw on sticks stones and rusty stuff where i sell my paintings bird on a wire places that make my eyes smile la dolce vita kelly kilmer dispatch from la helen ström harnett hargrove a bird in the hand lisa graham art real life journals beauty flows jane blundell collection particulière rose spirithelpers art talk julie ford oliver circles of rain jane minter s sketchbook cachepot letting in the light shoulda woulda coulda jessie lilac paper rainbow the awakened eye art by derek jones galia alena my curious tea party gathering up bits of the world true adventures of an art addict blissful bohemian queen of arts zendotstudio kathy dorfer niinakoo thefairyyellowbugqueen por amor al arte 4 rooms and the moon priti studio judy wise brooke wandall julie whitmore pottery michèle meister show 10 show all sharing for noncommercial purposes click below to read more this work is licensed under a creative commons attribution noncommercial share alike 3 0 united states license what i m using albrecht durer watercolor pencils caran d ache oil pastels faber castell polychromos pencils m graham gouache prismacolor colored pencils sennelier acylic and watercolor paints sennelier oil pastels shinhan watercolors stillman and birn journals zecchi watercolors woil water soluble oils tutorials how i paint faces muslin journal page tutorial wax and teabag step by step blog archive 2016 1 july 1 after van gogh s 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