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7/21/10

Trees and Flowers

Bay View Demonstration - Trees and Flowers

This journal page spread is a couple of demonstrations done in my Watercolor Sketchbook Journal class last week   -  birch trees and bright flowers against a dark background.  I get a little colorful with my birch trees  -  gray is just not all that fun. I use the colors I would use to get gray and let them mix (a little) on the paper.

Yesterday was a fantastic day for clouds  -  huge, very white, and very dense.  I didn't paint them.  Today's class is meeting at a park along the shoreline of the bay, and I'm hoping we'll have some interesting clouds and colorful water.

A couple of frustrating things right now  -  my merchant VISA won't deposit!!! and my computer won't let me access any weather reports!!!  Where does this weird stuff come from?!

And Blogger won't let me use the font I want.
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6 comments:

  1. Gwendolyn7:49 AM

    I see birches as multicolored, too! Love it!

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  2. annie1:29 PM

    I agree with Gwendolyn, perfect shadows on trees...

    Someday we'll discover what it is in the atmosphere that turns machines temperamental.
    annie

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  3. Anonymous3:03 PM

    Oh!...it's been so hot here!...and something about the shade that one knows is under the tree looks so inviting. You have captured a bit of "coolness and beauty" on your tree!...and underneath your tree. One can bask in the beauty of it and the flowers!
    And those machine-flaws, they come no matter what! ^o^ Me again...BJR

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  4. Anonymous10:43 PM

    the clouds were wonderful. I was taking pictures all day. Sorry for your troubles. Especially the font thing. That is tough. karen

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  5. Marj1:32 PM

    How many times have I tried to paint Birch Trees ala Catherine???
    To me, it's harder than it looks. Well, there's Aug. 2010 and we'll try some more! Yours always look so real!

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  6. Catherine11:32 AM

    Thanks, everyone for your comments. My merchant VISA did deposit - at 5 a.m. My husband is still trying to get the bugs out of my laptop so I can get the weather forecast, and Blogger is letting me do anything I want now. Life is good.

    I do a birch tree demo about once a day in the summer :) I will still be doing them in Aug. Marj.

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