lately, wanderings and paintings

Been working on a lots of new paintings. White-washed layers have been consuming my painting time. Sketchbook pages, ideas, plannings. For the new year and now. I keep playing around with variations of a sketch of this one woman…. Bits. I found the loveliest roll of 1940’s wallpaper along a driveway, discarded.

rainy day, again

Have been working on cotton watercolor paper, a sketchbook of sorts. Playing out my little portraits in color, experimenting with the idea of softer….softer lines and maybe colors, sometimes. Definitely softer edges. The rough watercolor paper mimics the texture of the canvas of which I am working on today, and of which is stacked up …

a bit on how things come together

Sketching faces on cotton watercolor paper (my favorite!). Still undecided on the hair. Sketch of scarlet tanager’s in my giant book from June (the pages do not fit into my scanner) And a collage of it all (with my hand and favorite papers) in my watercolor album. Just playing around, process journaling. A giveaway will …