When I say I was gone, I mean that I was gone from my daily art practice. It’s hard to come back once I’ve lost the daily habit. The project approach has been a good one, but I think I need to define what it means to me so I can make it sustainable again.
I’ve been playing with gouache a bit, along with slowly working my way through Shari Blaukopf’s class about sketching skies in gouache. I both want to work through this class and play with gouache and also find myself avoiding it all at the same time.
While this makes me feel as though I’m flitting around too much and probably should decide on one thing to focus on, I also just gone done (about 5 minutes ago) taking with a short class from Wet Paint. It was about using the Caran D’Ache Neocolor II crayons. Up until now, I’ve just been using them as crayons. In this short, but very fun class we added water. In one excercise, we used them almost like watercolor and in the other exercise we used them more opaquely, but activated with some water. It was super fun.
I went too complicated for the subject matter for the first exercise. For the opaque one, I went with a simple apple.
