{"id":1771,"date":"2024-05-08T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-painting-crabs\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T00:24:00","slug":"sketchbook-painting-crabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-painting-crabs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketchbook \/\/ painting crabs"},"content":{"rendered":"

If only I were actually painting this in Ireland! Wouldn’t that be fabulous?<\/p>\n

Anyway, this sketchbook page is from following along \u2013 mostly \u2013 a wild wonder conference<\/a> talk from Roisin Cure<\/a>, an Irish artist. Mostly because I didn’t paint exactly what she was painting at the time, and mostly because I had different supplies with me than she did. Of course, now I have the “I want more art supplies. Yes, I do. What do you mean I don’t have a shelf to put them on?” feeling! (Must make more progress on setting up the top room\/creative space!)<\/p>\n

She uses a couple of really interesting looking fountain pens with interesting nibs<\/a> to get different size strokes, and sketch ink (which is different from writing ink in how it flows and dries), and she’s using different brands of watercolors<\/a> that I have tried. It just all looks fun. <\/p>\n

Her crabs are intensely colored. I think that is a partly combination of paint choices and paper, and partly style\/application. I am working hard to be more intense with my color, but it’s really a challenging process for me. How wet is the paint, how much is in the brush, what am I doing with the brush, getting color on the page where I might make a mistake! <\/p>\n

But when I don’t look at hers for comparison, I really like the ones I’ve done.<\/p>\n

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Also, I did a time lapse video. The phone-camera was propped up on a french press coffee maker, and I forgot to just wait at the end for a still image. I’ll try to post that in a next post, but if it doesn’t work, check my instagram<\/a> later this week.<\/p>\n

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