Van's Warped Tour, life sketches

Today I went to Van's Warped Tour and I had a bit of time in between bands I wanted to see, so I did some sketching.  It started out as just gesture sketching, but turned out a bit more involved.  Not too bad, I thought, for being so rusty sketching people.

These were done in my small watercolor Moleskine with ink and watercolor.

*Now* it's a school room.

*How* could I have ever called this a school room before I had this poster??

  (Thank you, Annie's mom!!)

Mad! Super Color

There were hints that Jessica got out her pan pastels this week.  I wish I'd managed to get mine out, but I've been otherwise occupied.

Still got an Ultra Secret project going on, but here are some enticing close ups!

Also have been working on some flowers.  :)

My art supply basket is now Kitty's new empire

"Yes, so what's your point?"

It has found its true purpose.

Don't melt my crayons, Kitty.

Mad! Mist

I think maybe Jessica and I are a bit behind on our themes, and I'm going to blame summer.

Anyway, our theme this week is mist, and I wanted to use my sumi ink...and then Jessica sent me some amazing pearlescent Japanese watercolors!!  Perfect for playing with mist.

I used rice paper and painted on both sides of the paper.  The ink was on the "right" side, the normal Japanese watercolors I used on the back, and the pearlescents I used on the front (and a little on the back in the top right corner of this image to see if it would show through.)

Here is the front:

Here is the back, where you can see the pearlescence did not show through where the ink and paint were at all thick, but in that upper right corner in the above picture where the paint was really thin, it did show up!  Pretty cool subtle effect.

You can't see the awesome in-person effect of the pearlescent watercolors, as usual, but they are wonderfully fun.  Thank you, Jessica!

Japanese sparklies

Jessica, the sweetest-person-in-nyc-ever, just sent me these amazing pearlescent Japanese watercolors.

Isn't she amazing??

Ultra Secret Fabric Palette

This is my (potential) palette for my new sewing project.

It is an ultra secret project.