Sunday

Spring Flowers from My Garden

11x17" across a two page spread of a Stillman & Birn Epsilon Hardbound book
Watercolor and Pitt Big Brush Pens

Sometimes it's easier to tackle a single rectangle than to take on an entire two page spread, so I really enjoy setting up grids for various series of things I want to paint when I'm short on time. You can click the image above for a larger view of the sketch.

Here's my setup below, as I finished up the final section. I have a piece of Coroplast (corrugated plastic that is nearly weightless) to which I velcro my palette and clip on my palette cups. It extends under part of the book, which weights it down so it won't fall over. That leaves me hands free.

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:59 PM

    What kind of palette is that for your watercolors? I'm looking to upgrade mine.

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  2. Mark, you are the third person to ask me this question in the past 24 hours, so I am going to do a blog post on this soon. I used the outer case of this palette, but stripped and reconfigured the interior: http://www.wetpaintart.com/closeup.asp?cid=1377&pid=20682&offset=0

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  3. Anonymous11:24 AM

    Excellent! I look forward to the post.

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