A Few Late Posts From My Art Journal

Hmm.. This is dated Jan 2 but it's actually February. I've been a bit busy lately which might explain how I didn't get the month correct. The scary part is I had 11 cups of coffee that day, 6 of which were expresso.

EDM 252 Pine Trees

Class was canceled so instead of doing something on my very long to do list I did a quick watercolor painting of pine trees near a lake. I'm rather pleased with the mist coming off the lake near the horizon line. We had more snow today so it was rather pleasant to do this from memory.

Abusing a New Watercolor Sketchbook

I kept adding washes to my new Cachet Aquafine Watercolor Journal from Daler Rowney to see how far I could push the cold pressed linen paper. I lost track of how many layers I applied before the page started to buckle but it was a lot. I kept that poor paper wet for hours.