This month I signed up to take a class taught by the frugal crafter, Lindsay Weirich.
https://lindsayweirich.teachable.com/p/loose-juicy-watercolor-florals
Since today is Sketching Sunday, I am sharing a few of the quick and loose flowers that I have painted while following her instruction.
None of these took longer than fifteen minutes to do. They certainly help me fill up the blank pages in my watercolor sketchbook.
How are you spending your week-end? I hope you are making time for fun stuff.
When I haven’t been enjoying the weather outdoors, I have been viewing painting tutorials on Lindsay Weirich’s site.
https://lindsayweirich.teachable.com/courses
Also known as the Frugal Crafter, Lindsay is very generous with her knowledge of water color painting and teaches her art through videos on her WordPress blog as well as her Teachable site. I chose the Texture Toolbox: Feather and Fur lessons. This is an intermediate course, but I feel ready for it. Here is my result from lesson 1
And here is lesson two: A little sparrow fluffing up her feathers after a bath.
I’m pretty happy with both of these pieces.
Today the weather is still stunningly beautiful. My husband has gone fishing. I will likely spend the day gardening. There are seeds to plant and flowers to pick.
I hope you enjoy your day. You know it will never come again.
The wind howled all night and by 8 am this morning, the temperatures were in the lower 30s. I’m told that this is today’s high. The temperature is still dropping and the wind continues to blow. It’s a good thing that I have plenty of fiber objects and other creative endeavors on hand. No need to change out of my comfy yoga pants.
Yesterday I began to learn watercolor painting on paper. It’s been a long-time goal of mine to study this art form. I signed up for Lindsay Weirich’s introductory course Hand-painted Holiday, which can be found at https://lindsayweirich.teachable.com/p/hand-painted-holiday
During an overly-optimistic moment several years ago I had purchased a water color set. I dug it out of a drawer and retrieved several tubes of paint. It took some muttering and a dull yarn needle to pierce some of the foil seals, but eventually I had small quantities of paint laid down onto a cheap plastic palette.
First the tags. Lindsey called these a warm-up exercise. After a few hours I had completed six or so gift tags. Here are some of my favorites:
Next came the cards. I worked the first of the series, stopping when I realized that the afternoon had flown the coop, it was 5 pm and time to cook dinner.
Taking a break from painting, I moved on to knitting. At this point, all of the holiday gifts that I wanted to make were finished and ready to be wrapped. (Mmm maybe I will attach some of those gift tags!) I suddenly remembered that daughter had requested a pair of mittens for her son. She specifically wanted stranded knitting, so the mittens would be extra warm. I found the perfect pattern on Ravelry. It will only require a few adjustments, including the insertion of a thumb gusset for better fit.
Here is my progress so far.
With the weather so brutal outside, there is a chance I can finish these mittens and another watercolor card before the sun comes up tomorrow.
Okay, I have been enticed by The Frugal Crafter into making some ink drawings in conjunction with #Inktober2019. While these efforts have nothing to do with fiber arts, I decided to share them in this space, since so many of my WordPress blogger friends are sharing their drawings. Here are the first five days.
Thank you for your patience. We now return to our regularly scheduled program.
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