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Monthly Archives: December 2014
2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,300 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it … Continue reading
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Mountain Storm
A couple of washes, then Derwent watercolor pencils for the rest; some put on dry, some using pencils dipped in water, and some put on dry, then brushed over.
Bluebird
Here’s a bluebird that I painted using my Winsor and Newton travel set with 14 half-pans of watercolor. A damp brush across a pan produces vivid colors, although the background was made using dilute values with a glazing technique. This … Continue reading
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