I was away for a few weeks. My husband and I took the auto train from DC to Florida….whatta great experience! The train ride was awesome! A little on the expensive side, but…I’d do it again in a heartbeat! We traveled to Florida with a cousin of ours: here’s Ruthie in the train-room across the…
I am not Irish by a long shot, but on St. Patrick’s Day everyone is, right? Last year I think we made a shamrock, and I think I even made the wrong amount of leaves or petals on mine But, I was corrected by a reader and hopefully it’s all good now. But all of…
Here is my MINI SKETCH KIT contents. If you want to read rather than watch this video read here. Here is a short video to show you how I use the watercolor pencils: And blending color to make a color wheel: have fun and here’s some more to read about:
…whatever your preference know this:if you want to get to a particular place in the future: you gotta plan.
The 2022 Printable Time Planner
One of my favorite aunt’s 97th birthday is coming up this week. I thought that I’d try to paint a mini-portrait of her dog, Casey who passed away a few years ago. He was a cutie-pie! I’ll let ya know what she thinks of it, -Rose
I painted this cute little deer, and here are the steps I used: I started by drawing in pencil on my watercolor paper, getting as detailed as possible. And then I taped my paper to my Art Board, and began by putting in some background color. I add more background color, using the wet on…
I have been attempting to paint a small watercolor painting each day, and I started one yesterday…but never had a chance to finish it. Well, here it is today. One little thing that I have been learning is, when you are painting especially with watercolors, there always seems to be an awkward place in the…
My daughter sent me a photo of a peacock near her house. I thought that I might try to paint him. It’s really difficult to see many details in this photo, even after lightening it up. So I took a piece and had a little fun painting. I used my imagination as much as my…
We visited with a lot of family the past couple of weeks. Here’s a fun little palm tree that I painted…pretty much step-by-step. I started by drawing the beach, water & a palm tree very lightly on some watercolor paper. After taping the paper to a board, I added some water and then put some…