Painting watercolour backgrounds and mark-making in art.

Painting intuitive watercolour backgrounds through colour and shapes, and other art and artist inspiration in the form of books, and artist card decks.
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In this video I paint some watercolour backgrounds using a variety of my watercolour brands, but mostly ‪@beampaints2512‬ . We paint abstract shapes on watercolour paper and I show you some of my art journals and works in progress, including my "Art Poetry" painting "Windows of Hope". This is an example of a painting where you can use the background as a base and once it is dry, paint around shapes with a more opaque or contrasting paint medium.

I demonstrate mark making techniques while our background is still wet.

We pick a card from my "Art Poetry" card deck (link to shop below), and also from my 2024 Fodder collage calendar. I share a page from the book, "How to Be More Tree", and it relates to the Hornbeam tree and the theme of authenticity.

I introduce 2 new art sticker books and my new "Colour Cubes" bundle by ‪@SarahRenaeClark‬

"Flora " by Chloe Standish , Indigo/Chapter's Canada (or Amazon)

https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/sticker-s...

"The Botanist's Sticker Anthology", Indigo/Chapter's Canada (or Amazon)

https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-botan...

Product mention:

Colour Cube By Sarah Renae Clark
https://sarahrenaeclark.com/shop/colo...
@SarahRenaeClark
https://sarahrenaeclark.com/colorcube/
Beam Paints
https://www.beampaints.com/

Crayola Watercolours
https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/crayola-...

Daniel Smith Watercolours
"Irridescent bronze", "Irridescent copper", "Interference Gold"

Stabilo Woody's (Local art stores or Amazon)
https://www.amazon.ca/Stabilo-Woody-M...

Supracolour soft 2 pencils by Faber Castell (watersoluble crayons or pencil crayons, or a regular pencil will do).

I am using Canson XL mixed media/watercolour paper , 140 lbs or 300 gsm.

Other watercolour paper substitues:
98 lb Canson XL watercolour or mixed media paper.
Artist Loft 140 Watercolour paper from Micheal's Canada or US.

12 Round Princeton watercolour brush or any brand and size watercolour brush.

Molotow , neon pink refillable paint pen.

Mentions:

The 2024 Artist Almanac a collage fodder resource and daily calendar
Facebook group- search "Artist Almanac"
  / theartistalmanac  

"How to Be More Tree", illustrated by Annie Davidson

Maud Lewis, folk artist.
Maudie (film)
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Maudie_(film)



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