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Watercolour | 1½ years ago

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squwetchy Oh sure, you say, after all those pretty flower pictures now you go and post some depressing #dystopian #watercolour scene from a Fallout game or something, but see the thing is this was inspired, colours and all, by a photograph I took this morning of the creek valley filtered through the haze of all that forest #firesmoke, so… put that in your pipe and… well.

Saturday the 11th of May, 2024, before dinner.

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Watercolor Flowers Week 2 | 1¾ years ago

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squwetchy Apart from the small paint splatter accident mid way thru, my #watercolour #flower painting homework for week two turned out better than I’d expected. to be honest, I didn’t really like this picture when he showed it to us last night and the results that he got were a little flat and uninspired for my own personal tastes, which has less to do with the artistic quality and more to do with the lesson that was being forwarded in our second class. I tried to duplicate the results as best as I could, and then soften the background a little bit more than he had in his original piece, which was a fairly abrupt matte black. Watercolour flowers week 2 homework used about fifty bucks* worth of yellow paint but the results seem worth it. *tho not really

Wednesday the 1st of May, 2024, posted after lunch.

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Watercolour Filtered | 1¾ years ago

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squwetchy Sometimes I run my paintings thru an AI filter to see if the algorithm and smoothing of some of the details improves it. Oddly enough there is something to be learned from this that helps me see colours and tonal elements more clearly. It’s like putting your writing thru a grammar checker so you can see where the run-on sentences are. The flaws stand out and you can see what you did wrong for next time. #flower #filter

Wednesday the 24th of April, 2024, before dinner.

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Watercolour Flowers Week 1 | 1¾ years ago

squwetchy Take two: This is the second attempt, my “homework” attempt at the same #flower image as my last post from my #watercolour course night one.

Wednesday the 24th of April, 2024, posted after lunch.

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Art Class | 1¾ years ago

squwetchy It has been almost a year since I took a #watercolour class at the local recreation centre. Last spring I took a course from a local teacher on painting Canadian landscapes in watercolours which taught me a whole bunch of new techniques and ideas for improving my personal sketching and painting. This spring, I signed up for a second course by the same teacher, but this time our focus is #flower painting in watercolour. we are encouraged to document the process each class by taking photos of the various stages of the artwork as we paint it as a group, but our instructor insisted obviously that none of those pictures that would hint or give away course materials be posted anywhere so while you will see a number of finished Paintings as a progress through the course over the next few weeks the closest I can give you to show some of the background is a picture like this of me documenting the colour I used to mix for one particular stage, which I don’t think gives much away.

Wednesday the 24th of April, 2024, in the morning.

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Watercolour | 1¾ years ago

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squwetchy Starting next week I’m back in the classroom with my favourite watercolour instructor Frank. I signed up for another round of #watercolour painting classes at the local rec center. This time will be focussing on flowers so be prepared for lots of pictures of little pretty things and the high chance of me complaining about almost certainly being the only guy under 60 in my class. I was trying to get back into it as I haven’t done as much painting as I should have over the last month or two and I painted a couple spring scenes including these two.

Friday the 19th of April, 2024, during morning coffee.

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TUC | 2¼ years ago

squwetchy Another #autumn #watercolour landscape

Sunday the 24th of September, 2023, posted at bedtime.

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TUC | 2¼ years ago

squwetchy An #autumn #watercolour expedition into some local nature and I improvised a mask for the tree trunks using some bits of grass.

Sunday the 24th of September, 2023, posted at bedtime.

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Palatino Roma | 2½ years ago

squwetchy It’s been a quarter of a century since my last visit here, and it’s always a wonderful reminder of the scope of the world and our long history when we travel. Tho once again the best plein air #sketching places are where the crowds are, and I with my pen and #sketchbook were plonk in the middle of people looking over my shoulder and even photographing my #urbansketching in the midst of ancient Roman ruins. This is the Palatino, an archeological site in the middle of Rome where the giants of history like Caesar once strolled … but today just little old me sketched.

Saturday the 22nd of July, 2023, and up late.

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Versailles | 2½ years ago

squwetchy I sat on a wet bench in the King’s Jardin et did a little sketch in a quiet corner. I could have stayed all day, but alas I was with others setting the pace. #europe2023

Sunday the 9th of July, 2023, in the late morning.

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Paris | 2½ years ago

squwetchy Some sketches from around the hotel in #paris #europe2023

Sunday the 9th of July, 2023, in the late morning.

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Piccadilly Circus | 2½ years ago

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squwetchy Talk about getting out of your comfort zone! About a thousand people walked by me as I sat on the ground in Piccadilly Circus on London this afternoon and did the sketch for this piece. People stop to take pictures of you while your sketching, look over your shoulder, and generally treat you as just as much part of the chaos of the scene when you’re doing that. Nervous as heck but that’s half the fun, right? #europe2023

Wednesday the 5th of July, 2023, well after bedtime.

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Watercolour & Ink | 2½ years ago

squwetchy A little sketchy sketch in the park and then some additional #watercolour touch ups back at the hotel and my first day of #travel painting is done

Sunday the 2nd of July, 2023, well after bedtime.

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Watercolour | 2½ years ago

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squwetchy As much as I like sketching with ink and lines, the rawness of pure #watercolour (when I can take my brush) is starting to grow on me.

Thursday the 29th of June, 2023, in the late afternoon.

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Watercolour & Ink | 2½ years ago

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squwetchy There is a fuzzy line at the start of my professional #sabbatical and I am standing inside it I think. Yesterday I was definitely employed. Tomorrow I will be freed. Today? Today I went for a long meandering walk with the dog and sat in a park with my #sketching supplies. (Then I went home and replied to some messages on my work account.) Soon every day for a long while will be crystal clear and filled with art and creating, but today. Today I drew a #bridge … kinda like a metaphor or something?

Thursday the 29th of June, 2023, in mid-morning.

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Watercolour & Ink | 2½ years ago

squwetchy Back in my own backyard I tried sketching the #garden bed and my tomato plants. This was a multi-step #sketch with first laying down a rough big picture, then painting, then adding shadows, and finally after it dried deciding I wanted to add a bunch more ink detail into to central subject, the bed itself, which definitely makes it pop…

Saturday the 24th of June, 2023, in the mid-afternoon.

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River Valley | 2½ years ago

More adventures in creating stuff outside ended with a quick #watercolour #sketch in the trails and a new #video to profile the whole thing. With a million big ideas in my empty days it’s also nice to grasp onto little projects that I can share in a moment of effort.

Saturday the 24th of June, 2023, around lunch-ish.

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Watercolour & Ink | 2½ years ago

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squwetchy In my quest to do more quick #pleinair #sketching I’ve been attempting to think about the idea of the #10minutesketch … which is pretty self-explanatory I think. What can you get on paper in ten minutes? Can it capture the mood and the vibe of a place, in quick and messy wonder? The non-framed picture was painted in a park in about ten minutes.

Friday the 23rd of June, 2023, in the mid-afternoon.

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Watercolour & Ink | 2½ years ago

squwetchy I was reading about this thing called the Zorn Palette (great for portraits and people scenes) which is a three colour restricted #palette consisting of yellow ochre, vermillion & black, and all the #colours you can mix on variations of those three. i don’t have those colours, at least not in tubes, but it got me thinking about a restricted palette i could make that might be good for nature scenes with just three tubes: this #watercolour and ink #sketch was done with just cerulean blue, lemon yellow and payne’s grey. if no one has named that palette yet i’m calling dibs and we’ll try some more pics with it… but i’m going to the art store someday to get me some #zorn colours too!

Saturday the 10th of June, 2023, at breakfast.

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Watercolour | 2½ years ago