Color Cat Studios: watercolor painting

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Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Watercolor Sketch

Sometimes I end up liking the weirdest stuff. This pencil sketch of a tree took me all of a minute. Painting it probably took all of five minutes. And I like it! Who knew? This painting used Ruby Mountain’s awesome Indigo, their Paris Green and coolest-ever Naples Yellow. Ruby Mountain, LOVE your paints!

You would also notice my phone up there; I ALWAYS use an Otterbox. I chose to have a ‘pretty’ phone case and my phone lasted three weeks. Yep. Tried and true Otterbox person here. On my phone case is a sticker of one of my paintings. Did you know? I sell stickers? Yep. Find them on my website with all kinds of lovely things: www.colorcatstudios101.etsy.com

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Cool Watercolor Leaves

On this hot summer day what we need is a nice cool painting. This watercolor of leaves fits the bill! I went to a ‘Picasso Black and White’ exhibit which blew me away and this painting is one of the resultant pieces, giving my friend Pablo a nod. In that exhibit they showed a lot of ‘negative space’ paintings he did... painting the background AROUND the subject. I have learned to love this technique! This one is for sale at colorcatstudios101.etsy.com. Look me up!

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Here you have some nice closeups so you can really see the layers.

Love these layers. Such nice depth.

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Turkish tour

Another look at those natural color-sources. I asked about cochineal, because you couldn't just have that on a shelf, and yes, their deep reds are cochineal. It's a South American insect that is a parasite to the prickly pear. Owners deposit them into their fields, and blow them off and collect them once they're big. Then they crush their fat, bloody bodies for a nice, natural, red dye. I'm so happy to report that the rug we purchased has cochineal in it. I'm also happy to report that it's likely in your lipstick and blush, ladies, and if you drink cherry coke - it's in there, too! :)

'My' Chair

At our theatre the other night we had an orchestra meeting after I taught my sets class. After about a half hour, someone pulled me out of the meeting for a few minutes. When I came back, everyone in the room was laughing and pointing to the nice, uh, black leather chair. I had paint on the back of my shirt, and it permanently smeared all over the leather! The last time I went in the office, I noticed that someone had taped up the sign you see here. One way to lay claim to something! Well, it's not the first time, let's see, there's my driveway with many colors of paint, our carpet with Peter Pan green footprints, my car with yellow paint on the seat, my gloves, half of my clothes. It seems like everyone likes my painted clothes, kind of like already-broken-in-jeans. Maybe I should start a clothing line!

Color Cat Studios

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Watercolor Sketch

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Cool Watercolor Leaves

I snapped this cool photo in a sewing shop.

Seussical Sets Truffula Trees