Saturday, August 22, 2009

Journal Page, Art-Slam and a Thank you

Thank you all so much for your kind words and comments about my book. They really mean a lot to me. If you haven't posted a comment yet, you have time before the first Lucky Penny Doll drawing on August 31.

Lucrecer wrote a post about personal stories and listening at Art-Slam. She's a wonderful writer and photographer and she touched me deeply and served as a reminder.

Here's a journal page I did "down the shore." {Philly-talk for taking a seaside vacation.} I tried out the new Daniel Stick watercolor sticks for the color. Color is very lovely and intense and there is a lot of it. I took advantage of the"buy the blue get the red stick" deal and then added the Hansa yellow.I think they may be great in the studio; they don't travel as well as I'd thought as they stay pretty sticky. I used Alizerin Crimson, Cobolt Blue and Hansa Yellow here which gave me a nice secondary range of colors. I'll experiment with them some more.
Actually these were not Herons that I saw, they were Egrets. Oops. No matter: they were so graceful and languid.

Enjoy your weekend, everyone. We are hosting Hurricaine Bill who is just skirting the east coast. Rainy and still unbearably humid here.

2 comments:

Lucrecer said...

Thank you so much for your words. That means a great deal to me. I am so looking forward to getting your book. I should go to Amazon and order it right now!!! I am going to spend some of this weekend looking for and listening to stories. I love them. Take care, D.

Jill Berry said...

I saw your ad first thing, right smack in the front of Cloth, Paper, Scissors. My you are so hitting the BIG TIME! And I said to myself, that is my seesta! Right there! Coincidentally I have a tiny piece in the same issue, a tiny book. First time for me, they have rejected me many times. So we share this fab issue and I am proud to be with you there. Can't wait for the book.