by Kathy Collins | May 13, 2020 | Main |
A few mornings ago I witnessed the purple Cascade Mountains back-lit by the rising sun, while in the foreground, the city lights of Bothell shone brightly against the near-black foothills. Lake Washington waters reflected color from both natural and artificial lights....
by Kathy Collins | Apr 30, 2020 | Main |
Mt. Rainier dominates the view from the shores of Lake Washington and begs to be painted. But how to handle an icon such this? To start, I snapped a photo, printed it out, hauled out my projector, and traced the shape onto watercolor paper. I started at the top by...
by Kathy Collins | Apr 18, 2020 | Main |
Lately I’ve painted with my grandchildren via Facetime, and it has been a learning experience for both them and me. What I have learned so far: #1 find something they want to paint, and #2 keep the composition simple. One of our more successful watercolors was...
by Kathy Collins | Apr 11, 2020 | Main |
Yesterday morning brilliant orange light peaked around the clouds with a background sky of pure lavender. Sometime I will try to find out why the colors are so different every day, but for now, I am inspired to begin painting again. I brushed in ultramarine blue,...
by Kathy Collins | Apr 4, 2020 | Main |
Temporarily putting aside my paper and paints, I moved to new media: an old t-shirt and elastic hair bands. Using a pattern down-loaded from the internet, I cut up the fabric, dusted off my sewing machine, and after several tries (I was too impatient to watch the...
by Kathy Collins | Apr 2, 2020 | Main |
In her book “The Secret Lives of Color” the author Kassia St. Clair writes that the French impressionists used a lot of purple. Some suggested it was because they spent so much time ‘en plein air’ squinting at the yellow sun that they often had...
