#WorldWatercolorMonth Pierson's Great Adventures week 4

I am entering my daily art in Paint Party Friday and I want to thank everyone that stops by and leaves me their comments. I do try and return them and I hope I didn't miss anyone!!

 Last week a couple of you picked your favorite, and that was fun too! 😍

 I really enjoyed the fact that most of you liked the one I least liked, lol

 So, I would love to hear your thoughts again this week!!

Got a favorite, let me know!

day 28

"The Mountains are Calling"

day 27

Dance like no one is Watching

day 26 

"Ta-Dah!"

day 25

"Shoot for the Moon"

day 24

"Look what I found"

day 23

"I need snow"

day 22
This last one has been a real struggle for me, I guess because it's a landscape and as much as I love doing landscapes, they don't turn out the way I want them to...but I keep trying. I worked from the photograph I took back in Nov. 2016...I tried to do it "plein air" style back then but that was trashed and I decided to try again.

Taken from the patio of Grove Park Inn, Asheville 

I'm a little bit behind in doing a water color every day and I might just have to be OK with that. Just one day though...maybe I could make that up?...or not, lol
I had a friend visit me, and we went to see The Little Mermaid play and had a fabulous fancy dinner complete with what seemed to be our own personal Harpist since she was playing right next to us.

ALL art painted with my ColourArte Twinkling H20's...
their on sale right now too...just saying!

Twinkling H20s -Watercolors 15% off 

Silks -Acrylic Glaze 15% off

Vivid Enamel colors-15% off

Radiant Rains-Iridescent Sprays 15% off

I hope everyone has a lovely and art filled week-end!

Great Adventures of Pierson -week 3 #WorldWatercolorMonth

Best laid plans and all...

I'm a day behind, I've had company in town so I hope I can catch back up real soon, in the meantime here are the latest that I am linking up with in

 Paint Party Friday :)

day 20

"whispers"

day 19

"On top of the World"

day 18

"I can hear the mermaids"
( video )

day 17

"A boy and his dragon"

day 16

"Explorers"

day 15

"Pucker-up Prince Charming"

StencilGirl & Imagine blog hop

June Pfaff Daley, one of the StencilGirl designers asked if we could make an ATC to trade with her kids at art camp. Of course I wanted to!! I am thrilled anytime I get to participate with children so I made her 4 ATCs and I also made myself an art journal page to go along with the ATCs I made to commemorate the experience.

Products used:

StencilGirl stencils:
LittleEddy Rose Stencil by MaryBeth Shaw
Angel Circle Stencil by Kate Thompson

TurkishWedged Stones by Daniella Woolf

WheelSpokes Set #2 by  Andrew Borloz

Decorative 6-Petal Flower Screen by Gwen Lafleur

January Stencil club small stencil by MaryBeth Shaw

Imagine® Products I used:
Craft Mat
Brushstix
Multi-Purpose Squeegee

I love the Brushtix for stenciling and used them recently (3 different ways!!) when I made my ATC booklet. I made a video of the booklet itself and you can see it HERE.


I made a short slide show/video of my process just to make it easier for you to see rather than posting all the pictures :)

 Hope you enjoy watching it!

AND I made a video of me cleaning my craft mat...lol.
...yes, you read that correctly 😉
Have you ever seen someone so excited to clean a mat off?
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Hahnemühle, #Hahnemühle, #Cézanne, #WorldWatercolorMonth

I was very fortunate to have Hahnemühle send me a Cézanne

300 gsm - 100% rag - surface sized - matt, rough and hot pressed block to play with. If you have never painted on a block before, the Pads are glued and gauzed to ensure flatness when wet. This makes them especially suitable for wet painting techniques like watercolor – especially when you are using techniques like glazing and/or color washing. I used my ColourArte shimmering iridescent  H20s twinkling watercolors to create this superimposed piece of art. I loved the that the surface sizing allowed me to easily correct their mistakes, like I had to on the seagulls that I painted in the sky. 

I was only happy with the bottom seagull

 But after the video ended I went back and "lifted" out the mistakes and was able to correct them...well, at least to the point where I liked all three much better now!

Now, honestly, I don't know a whole lot about watercolor papers but I loved painting on the Matte surface!

Matte surfaces
Matte surfaces are used for delicate paintings and are suitable for beginners because of their slightly irregular surface that impacts only slightly on brush control and paint flow. These surfaces can be recommended for all watercolour painters who like to work with fine details.
Users can obtain full brush strokes in the wet in dry technique and even glowing colour gradation using the wet in wet technique.

Adventures with Pierson

I am now 2 weeks into doing a watercolor every day and have achieved it so far, puttering away with my ColourArte Twinks. I'm still enjoying working on my latest series called "Pierson's great adventures" where I cut out a photograph of my grand-nephew and superimpose him into a surreal background that I watercolor. 

linking up to Paint Party Friday

day 14

Shipwrecked

day 13

Up, up and away

day 12

Finders Keeps

day 11

Running with the Bulls

 day 10

Space, the final frontier

day 9

BRB...I need a bigger water gun

The astute will notice there is 1 day missing, I needed to paint something specific for another challenge so I'm leaving it out of this post...however you can see what I did here and make sure to check out my new Hake brush, if you've used one before I would love to know your thoughts on it!

Also, for the mermaid lovers out there...
 I did a Mermaid blog hop with StencilGirl, and we have a prize, so hop along if you want and start here so you can see what I made!

Mermaid madness hop

I love me some mermaids, oh yes I do!

seriously...I do!

Jessica Sporn has designed some fabulous stencils for StencilGirl and you can find all her awesome designs here.

Here is one of the art journal pages I made using the
 Mermaid Stencil and Masks by Jessica Sporn
 and one of my favorite stencils called
  Little Eddy Rose created by the awesome MaryBeth Shaw.

Look at all the different shapes and designs you get on just one stencil!

Now if you dare watch the video you are going to see me laugh at myself and make plenty of mistakes, but hey...
that's the real me in all my messy mermaid glory.

I also created an Americana mermaid and you can swim on over and check out the video I made and all the other mermaids that our fabulous design team came up with HERE!

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BRB...need a bigger water-gun #WorldWatercolorGroup - day 9

Picking back up on Pierson's Great Adventures, this time we find him preparing to go to battle against a giant octopus only to discover that he needs a much bigger water-gun to fight this guy! But never fear, he will be back!

As soon as mom re-supplies him, lol

I love this picture of Pierson, he looks so confident for a 3 ½ year old!

BRB...need a bigger water-gun

Painted with my ColourArte Twinks , of course!

and the original picture 😉

#WorldWatercolorGroup day 8 #Watercolorsummer2017

This will be a little different from the last 7 days but I met with one of my friends for her birthday lunch and a sketch date :) 

I brought her a Hake brush ( pronounced like rake but replace the r with an h ) for her birthday, and well, got me one too. 😜

Funny thing is, I actually had another one ( a different style ) but didn't know what to use it for, I do now! WATERCOLOR!!

A hake brush is an oriental-style wash brush on a long flat handle. It is useful for laying in large areas of water or color, for wetting the surface, and for absorbing excess media.

We sat outside to eat our lunch and to sketch some. I knew I needed to do the Summer Skies prompt for the Angela Fehr challenge and thought doing a street sketch with the sky in the background would be nice.

I really wanted to do a loose sketch but it seems to be a little difficult for me to accomplish, lol but here is what I came up with and yes, those are storm clouds rolling in. We had to do a hasty exit due to lightening...

#WorldWatercolorGroup day 7 "Leap Frog"

I see all these "loose" watercolors and I try, I really do, but I end up using my watercolors just like acrylic paint. I think it's like the old adage of trying to learn to play golf and tennis at the same, they don't mix because of swing fundamentals. So, I am going to back away from painting with acrylic paints and try to focus on watercolor...at least for 24 more days.

day 7 "Leap Frog"

 Meanwhile I am linking up to Paint Party Friday and I thought I'd show off my first week of #WorldWatercolorGroup month. For those just seeing them, these are photographs of my 3½-year-old grand nephew who strikes the most interesting poses, well, at least to me they are. 😜 I always see something "extra" in them and I decided to finally do something about it by cutting them out and superimposing them onto surreal backgrounds.

day 1 "Take me to your leader"

day 2 "Rock On"

day 3 "Magical Forest"

day 4 "It's raining cats and dogs"

day 5 "Riding the curl"

day 6 "Three wishes"

So far, I am having a blast and will try and do one each day this month.

#WorldWatercolorGroup day 6 - "3 wishes"

I guess that would be my expression too if I had a genie by its tail!

hmmm...

1. That I could eat whatever I wanted and not get fat 👀

2. To have lots of money to retire with 💰

3.world peace, blah, blah blah 😎

What would you wish for?

#WorldWatercolorGroup day 5 "Shooting the curl"

Water is one of the hardest things for me to do, but I kinda like how this turned out. I was trying to capture the mercurial power of the ocean and looked at tons of photos in an attempt to emulate them. 

You can see from the photo below that I had to photo-shop the top of his head since it was cut off in the picture...sighs...lol Let me just say I am not the photographer here, but you manage with the photos you are given. :)

His mom said he was looking at a crab that was on the beach but all I could think of was he's surfing!

Here's "wishing" you come back to see day 6!

( that's a hint btw )

#WorldWatercolorGroup - day 4 - "Raining cats and dogs"

When my grand nephew came to visit me the other week it was raining, like every day so he wanted his own umbrella and I got him this cute little monster-brella. He got loads of attention from other adults who thought it was just the cutest thing ever...and OK, it he is. 💗💙💚💛💜

If you've never tried ColourArte's H2O's then you are missing out. I love how they just sparkle, but not like glitter sparkle....more of a shimmer.

See ya tomorrow!