Friday, September 16, 2016
Write On
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Labels: 30 paintings in 30 days, illustration, ink, inktense, mad writers club, watercolor
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Succulent
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Labels: 30 paintings in 30 days, facebook friend photos, inktense, mad writers club, succulent, watercolor
Friday, September 9, 2016
Just Wild
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Labels: 30 paintings in 30 days, inktense, mixed media, trillium, watercolor, wildflower postcards, wildflowers
Thursday, September 8, 2016
Love & Wildflowers From Tennessee
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Labels: 30 paintings in 30 days, daily painting, don hunter, inktense, mixed media, watercolor, wildflower postcards, wildflowers
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Heavyweight
But, not bad on this one. The frisket (I am using Daniel Smith's masking fluid) pulled up the paper on a tiny spot. I think maybe I'm getting too anxious to pull it up and doing it prematurely while there's still wet on the paper? Anyway, this kitty's reference came from Wet Canvas and he turned out a bit orange but I still like him. I did the base colors in Winsor Newton watercolor with inktense pencil layered over that, and then Sakura Gellyroll pen for all the white fur texture over that (which shows up better in person than it does in a photo). Oh, and the whisker shadows are Copic fine liners. I need more Copic fine liners in my life, my sepia set is awesome but I want black.
I think I might be back on track, but still 2 paintings behind. This weekend is going to be super busy -- I will be at Fall Fun Fest craft show in Cookeville TN selling jewelry and doing henna. I'll share a couple of those with you then (does that count as a painting? .... hmmmmm).
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Labels: 30 paintings in 30 days, cat, daily painting, feline, inktense, mixed media, watercolor
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Paper Woes Continue
This is one from one of my friends' photos so I may give it another go, maybe try it on hard panel painted with Daniel Smith's watercolor ground, since I want to give that a try. The quest continues!
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Labels: cactus flower, paper problems, watercolor
Friday, September 2, 2016
I Gotta I Don't Wanna
Hope your day is going easier.
Posted by Deanna Lack at 12:24 PM 1 comments
Labels: 30 paintings in 30 days, daily painting, heron, ink and wash, inktense, postcard
Thursday, September 1, 2016
OBX
Done on 12x9 Arches 140# watercolor paper (painted area is 5x7, so can be framed either size)
Bodie Island lighthouse is one of only 12 operational tall lighthouses left in the US, and it still has its original Fresnel lens. It was recently renovated and you can walk up the 112 steps to the top. Its name is pronounced like "body" -- some sources say it's because a family named Body once owned property in the area, and others say it's because of the many shipwrecked sailors' bodies that washed up from the "graveyard of the Atlantic" (the waters near the Outer Banks are quite treacherous).
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Labels: 30 paintings in 30 days, bode island, daily painting, inktense, lighthouse, outer banks, watercolor
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Young Photographers
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Labels: 30 paintings in 30 days, facebook friend photos, ink and wash, inktense, legacy village, ohio, perspective, scenery, urban sketching, watercolor
Monday, August 29, 2016
Silky
Lovely photography courtesy of Nicole Hanna |
As soon as I had this idea her Facebook photos were one of the first to come to mind. She does adorable photos of her cats and crazy cool stop-action water droplet photos. But when I put up the post she shared this picture. I still want to do one of her cats, but it's not September yet so I still can. ;)
Anyway this photograph looks like a watercolor already so I thought I'd go a little surreal with it, with the silk painting technique, and I'm fairly happy with the results.
Actual silk painting is still in my future. I can do it with Inktense, too. And I think I'll try this on Yupo again, this time with some sort of metallic resist, and maybe on the transparent Yupo. Mmm, ideas. Thanks Painting Muse.
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Labels: daily painting, flower, inktense, iris, resist, silk painting, yupo
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Video Is Not My Forte
I thought I'd make you a video of the in-progress painting of this. The tripod I bought for my camera didn't work so I just propped it up on a box above where I was painting. Yeah, that didn't work. Oh well, maybe you'll enjoy it anyway.
My all-things-photography guru Chuck Sutherland is coming over this week to show me how to do proper time lapse on my DSLR! Chuck's a master. Check out this one of his.
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Labels: aceo, atc, daily painting, dolphin, inktense pencils, speed painting, time lapse, video
Scrappy
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Labels: aceo, art display, scrapbook
Friday, August 26, 2016
Ain't So Hot
Check back in for Nerdgoat!
Posted by Deanna Lack at 7:39 AM 0 comments
Labels: daily painting, goat, hot press, inktense, watercolor
Thursday, August 25, 2016
Scratchboard Experiments
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Labels: experimental, inktense, scratchboard, statue of liberty
Monday, August 22, 2016
Eevee
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Labels: inktense, nature journal, puppy
Sunday, August 21, 2016
Cute Falcon is Cute
I got to play with my new Inktense pencils this morning. I used a ref from Wet Canvas (love that site!) for it.
Later that evening I snagged another ref photo from the same site and tinkered with Inktense flowers (this is an anemone). I used gel pens for the white in the water droplets (man, I really think I got that one water droplet PERFECT... wish I felt that way about all of them), so this is technically mixed media. I like it pretty well, though. First time I've ever framed anything like this, with a border on a 6x6 square piece of watercolor paper. I think some experiments with toothless hot press paper are in order.
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Labels: 30 paintings in 30 days, aceo, anemone, daily painting, falcon, flower, inktense, inktense pencils
Saturday, August 20, 2016
That's Intense
I didn't have time for much other than that, so I just made this little mushroom doodle from a photo I took a couple of years ago. I REALLY like them. They fill in the gaps where I was struggling with watercolor, and I love the texture that the pencils can add to the mix.
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Thursday, August 18, 2016
Peace Love and Yupo
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Labels: cars, chihuly, dailypainting, frame, frist center, gardens, ink, nashville, opryland, watercolor, yupo
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Big Horn, Little Painting
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Labels: bighorn
Monday, August 15, 2016
Local Landmarks
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Labels: ink and wash, landmarks, mixed media, Oldham theater, Sparta Tennessee, watercolor
Friday, August 12, 2016
Gelly Roll Call
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Labels: black paper, frog, gelly roll pens, sakura
Thursday, August 11, 2016
That's a Sexy Cat
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Labels: black paper, cat, gelly roll pens, ninninninjakitty, sakura
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Love Letters
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Labels: bob marley, calligraphy, quote, watercolor
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Art Every Day, Take 12 or Something
I got a book called Creating Mandalas: How to Draw & Design Zendala Art by Deborah A. Pace, and this is the result of me playing with it today. I am loving the Sakura Gelly Roll Pens on black paper!
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Labels: arteveryday, mandala, sakura gelly roll pens, white on black, zentangle
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Just do it
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Labels: cat, Pen and ink, the cheat, watercolor
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Watercoloring Birds
My artist friend Joe is staying with us, and artist energy around you is always a good thing. So when he sat down at the kitchen table to draw last night, I got my pencils and paints and the excellent John Muir Laws Drawing Birds book I got for Christmas and painted in my watercolor sketchbook from a photo I took a couple of years ago.
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Labels: birds, sketchbook, watercolor
Saturday, January 2, 2016
Playing With Photos
I thought I'd play with one of my photos for today's Wacom/Photoshop/Digital painting experiment. Here is the result.
This is my horse Abbey and her pasture mate, Jewel. Every so often I get a chance to take a picture of them running (NOT Abbey's favorite activity!). I played with the background a bit to make it abstract.. nothing terribly fancy, but I learned a bit in the process.
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Labels: 30 paintings in 30 days, digital painting, horses, photo manipulation, photoshop
Friday, January 1, 2016
Going Digital
And so I will.
Posted by Deanna Lack at 3:44 PM 0 comments
Labels: 30 paintings in 30 days, cloud, digital painting, landscape, photoshop, wacom