Yupo Paper and beautiful glass

Flatter color

This week we were sketching at Michealides Glass Studio in Clinton.  You can see there were many beautiful pieces of glass to sketch in the windows.  What better place for glass to show beautifully!

This piece to the left was sketched with a brush on watercolor paper in my sketchbook.  Extra color was added after the first pass to make create the form.

The sketch below was sketched with the brush onto Yupo (a plastic paper).  The colors retain their pure vibrancy.  To add highlights you carefully carve them out with a damp brush.

Intense vibration of color

Glass Flower and Orcas Island Field Trip

Last week snow and sleet, this week Sunshine and flowers.  This particular flower is from our last expedition to The Schack Center in Everett where we watched eight men throw huge pieces of hot glass to loud rocking music The whole scene was lots of fun and it was good practice to sketch quick motions of the ever moving men..  

Glass Flower Schack Art Center

Graceful Madrona & Orcas Hotel

Orcas Ferry Landing from the Big Rock

This week we traveled with the Anacortes Sketchers to Orcas Island where we settled in around the Orcas Hotel and watched the ferry come and go while we recorded our environment with paper, pen and paint.  It was a long, but fun day traveling on my favorite Ferry route, eating and drinking with friends and even the crazy last minute visit to the new Yogurt shop in Oak Harbor.