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Welcome to the Late Blooming Watercolors Late Holiday Gift Guide! Christmas is just over a week away, so this gift guide will only be useful if you need to do some last minute shopping for the budding watercolorist in your life. 1. Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolor Sketcher's Pocket Box Set This is one of the first sets of decent watercolor paint I purchased, and it's still my number 1 recommendation for those getting started with watercolor. It's considered "student" grade paint, but it's still a huge step up from the Crayola watercolors many of us used as children. It comes with a...

And we're back with another look at the past week in the life of a part-time watercolor artist. Last time here. This last week start off poorly, carrying over my painter's block and dissatisfaction with my work from the week before. I started Angela Fehr's 2020 winter workshop since it focuses on abstract paintings. I felt surprisingly good about some of my notan work and jumped right in to color experiments. But something just wasn't working. I liked a few color combos I tried, and I moved on to some larger attempts...but I wasn't super happy with any of them...

Well now we have our answer: it took 3 weeks for me to fall off the wagon of Friday's weekly summaries. (Last time here.) Whoops. In my defense, it was the Friday after Thanksgiving, and I took the day off most work.  I wouldn't have had much to write last week anyway. It's been a disappointing and frustrating couple of weeks of painting, with nothing turning out how I want. I'm still incapable of getting the ideas in my head out onto paper the way I want them.  I have been practicing my brush skills over the last week or...

My "Forest Cascade" original palette knife watercolor is part of the Rhode Island Watercolor Society's show "Home for the Holidays." The virtual show opened Saturday and you can see all the featured works on the @riwatercolor Facebook page!This is a national show for 2D media that selected 90 works from 187 entries. I am especially excited about this one because it's the first time I've been selected for a watercolor society show! "Forest Cascade"Watercolor on cotton paper, mounted on board14 Inches x 10 Inches$250

I'm on a three-week stretch of actually writing about the week's studio adventures! (Last week is here, if you want to catch up.) Let's keep on keepin' on. This last week was quite a bit less active in the studio. I suspect I was feeling lost after finishing that massive collage project the week before. I was thrilled with how it turned out, and I did not know what do with myself after that. I certainly don't have a new plan for another large collage like that--I used a lot of my paper scraps, and it's a project that takes over the whole studio...