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Sunday Sky

Posted on by Laura Kate

This painting started life as a practice sky. I stroked ultramarine blue over the top 2/3rd of the paper, let it sit, and then lifted off the cloud shapes with a wet paper towel. Today I added the sea and sand with inspiration from a photo by Cristian Cabral on Unsplash.

I chose this image because of the foamy waves and dark-colored sand with footprints In addition to the Ultramarine blue I used raw sienna, burnt sienna, paynes gray and a tiny bit of new gambose to make the trees a bit green. Paper is Fabriano Studio cold press cut to 6×9 inches.

You can view more images by this photographer here:

https://unsplash.com/@hangaromo

Posted in painting

Back to my Routine

Posted on by Laura Kate

Hi friends!

I have returned from a long vacation in parts north of here. So many great moments and much material for fibery inspirations!

It’s been hard to get back into the routine of posting to my blog. Yesterday, just as a warm-up, I finished this little painting.

Stormy Sky

It started life as an exercise in painting a stormy sky. I had left enough white space below my sky to add some foreground. Mitch Zeissler’s wonderful photograph taken in the Florida keys provided my reference image. You can see his work here:

https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/114841099/posts/3308979988

Thank you!

I will be back soon with posts about cool yarn I found, some fabric painting and a knitting lesson just for beginners.

See you then.