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12/19/07

Christmas Cactus Study

This is a small watercolor study of the Christmas Cactus in yesterday's post. I did I light sketch of the shapes and then painted the leaves with clear water. Starting with quinacridone gold I dropped some pigment on the leaf sections, followed by a little Prussian Blue and a small amount of quiacridone red. I let the colors float around a bit and then helped it mix a little here and there. The petal color was done with a mix of quinacridone red and lemon yellow. Everyone in class did a beautiful job of letting it mix on the paper and keeping it simple.

I finished a little more Christmas shopping today. I have come to the conclussion that Christmas is so stressful because it is all about loose ends! One loose end after another - who's picking up what gift, who's coming to dinner, WHERE is dinner, who's gonna fix that thump-thump noise in the car so I can finish my shopping . . .

It'll be fine. It's all coming together.

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:55 PM

    I knew it would be simple, yet beautiful. I'm going to try that with my Christmas Cactus--it's red.
    Merry Christmas to you and your family Catherine...you'll get those ends all tied up in time :-)
    Marj. M.

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  2. Thanks Marj. Merry Christmas to all of you too.
    I will be anxious to see your Christmas cactus painting!

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  3. Anonymous11:55 AM

    an inspiration. Keep things simple. The wet on wet and beautiful combination of colors. Just love it.
    Thank you for sharing.

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