Since my initial experimentations with salt and watercolor, I’ve spent hours watching tutorial videos on different techniques and materials one can use with watercolors, and I’ve gone to art supply and hardware stores multiple times in the last five days (and I don’t like running errands, folks). It’s been a bit of an obsessed week,Continue reading “Watercolor Explorations”
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Salt + Watercolor
After my last watercolor project fiasco, I vowed to return to this medium with a lighter heart and more exploratory aspirations. I have to remind myself again and again that it’s the act of creating that’s key, not the end result. So, this week, I played around with a new watercolor technique: SALT! Adding saltContinue reading “Salt + Watercolor”
Watercolor Exercises: Flex Those Brushes
I’ve been playing around with watercolor for a few months now, but I’ve never taken the time to try to understand how this medium really works. While it seems simple on the surface, let me assure you, watercolor is not easy. Yes, there are only four main components: paint, water, brushes, and paper. But theContinue reading “Watercolor Exercises: Flex Those Brushes”
Blind Drawing: You Try Not Looking
It’s so difficult for me not to continuously look at the page while drawing. It’s like my eyes don’t believe I have hands I can draw with unless they’re looking right at them while drawing. If you recall from my last post, I’m trying to develop this new habit of actually looking at the subjectContinue reading “Blind Drawing: You Try Not Looking”
Adventures in Photography Volume II
So, I got this book called Creative Photography Lab: 52 Fun Exercises for Developing Self-Expression with Your Camera. As the title suggests, this book contains a series of photography labs designed to develop both technical and creative skills in photography. The first lab in the book is to take thirty shots in thirty minutes onContinue reading “Adventures in Photography Volume II”
Compulsive Creation 