Next gathering:
Sunday, June 2nd, 10:30am central— Image Word Mystery: Ekphrastic Fantastic with the art of Mati Klarwein. Free. Hosted by Vision Train
Paid subscribers: You’ll find the video replay of last Sunday’s Image Word Mystery Creative Jam “THE EXQUISITE MYSTERY” & links to the Community Chat below! (That was so funnnnnn, y’all!)
We’re off on our first camping trip of the season!!!!!!!
Mostly I packed high grade snacks and art supplies.
What’s coming with me to make art outside this weekend?:
Pigments— Watercolor pan, watercolor pencils and, my new obsession, the Caran d’Ache Neocolor II water-soluble crayons.
Tools & stuff— I’ve got a handful of different water brush pens with me, paper towels & a spray bottle of water. There’s a roll of painters tape, some 300g hot pressed watercolor paper and a small artboard so I can clip and tape stuff down. I’m skipping the plein air easel this weekend in favor of resting the artboard horizontally on my lap. I like the immediacy there and can really pool my water up on the page without it running that way. Other than that: Camp chair, drinking water & mad sunscreen!
This was the setup I hiked in with the other weekend at the bison range in the wildlife refuge.
Throughout June I’ll be deep-diving with paid subscribers on all things plein air & we’re gonna be making some sweet poetry-with-place.
And I’ll report back next week with the art I make this weekend!
Prompt for you?
I’m focusing on clouds right now & invite you to get into clouds, too. Drawing nature while it does its thing means everything is constantly moving and changing- light, colors, shapes, relationships between objects. I like just being with the change and seeing if I can capture some kind of emotional truth about a scene while it flows and changes before me…
I don’t have a ton of practice drawing skies and clouds, really, which is fun because I don’t have one way I “do it” yet. I’ve been letting myself just try out different colors, different ways of looking at and representing skies.
This was from the refuge:
And this was a study I did in the studio this week, looking at “Pilgrim of the Radiant City” by Nicholas Roerich— I was interested to feel how he’s working with color & value (some things we will be talking about in the Community Chat with paid subscribers next month!):
Have fun! Go outside! Make a picture! Write a poem!
I’ll meet you out there, friends.
xo,
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