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...
by Kathy Collins | Apr 1, 2020 | Main |
Still painting a series of Washington State ferries: but this time I made a change in the composition and decided to write about it. Notice my previous posting which shows a ferry appearing to glide right off the side of the paper. The land form echos this motion,...
by Kathy Collins | Mar 28, 2020 | Main
They say write what you know. Maybe also paint what you know? At home in my studio I pulled out some photos, and one that caught my eye was a Washington State ferry gliding through the San Juan Islands. The ferry looked very small in the photo, yet getting the shape...
