For what's it's worth my work showed up in a treasury. I only got a handful of views but I actually liked this treasury so here it is!

Short and Sweet!

I'm gonna keep this short and sweet because I'm under the weather and I really don't want to use to much of my precious energy.

My three new favorite art books:

The Watercolor Artist's Bible, The Acrylic Artist's Bible and The Sketching and Drawing Bible all by Marylin Scott.

These are essential for anyone who wants to try a new medium or expand on the one they are already working in. I found a ton of new information that isn't easily obtained. There is one on oil painting but I'm gonna wait a week til I finish reading these three.

Next, I'm looking for a good book on Color Theory. I did find this web page, which is pretty helpful. And my library has Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green. So I might be off to a good start, we'll see!

Test your colors!

I got this off of a Threadbanger forum member.

It's interesting because it was really easy for me, while most found it very difficult. Of course, I work with paints and they seem to be loaded with colors, he he! So test your color IQ here!

Heads up the lower your number the better, this is good to know because when I saw a zero I thought I had failed the damn test, but no zero is perfect!

Good luck!

I'm still alive!

Sadly, I'm still breathing. Even though the last few weeks have been interesting. I guess I should be happy I still have a job.

Unfortunately, I've neglected a lot of things and I need to play catch up. But that should be colorful and exciting!

So, I'm checking in to say I'm still alive and kicking. I'm working on choosing a Etsy fine artist to put on and I just ordered some books that I'm hoping to review. Oh, lots more too! I promise it will be fun... well, at least me it will be! Okay... fine you can have fun too!

Experimentation!

I played with something new today, yupo watercolor paper. It's a watercolor paper with a wax finish so the watercolor is suppose to just slosh around. It will take some getting use to but this was my result. I just used a sketch that I've been contemplating painting so it was a double experimentation.

I'm not completely happy (though I do like the way the water looks in some areas) with these results but I'm gonna keep playing around with it and see what happens.