Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Little Squares of Color

I signed up to take Alisa Burke's class Watercolor Bliss.  I would love to find a way to incorporate watercolor into my journal pages that is more satisfying and Alisa does beautiful work so it seemed a perfect combination.  So far I am loving the class.













So I dragged out this baby.  Most of these paints are 14 years old at least.  I got it when I took my first watercolor class in 1997. I have used up some of the colors but there is still a lot of paint available. I had no idea what brand of paint these were or their color names.  I ended up digging through old files to find out what brand of WC these were. Turns out these were Winsor-Newton paints and I now I know the color names too.













We are into week one and our assignments are to get familiar with our supplies. So I have been doing some samples of all the water media I have and there is lots of it. I have 4 sets of pencils, derwent and caran d'ache watercolor pencils and inktense and graphitint pencils.  So I have been making these pages with samples of each color.














They took awhile but they are really fun to do. I like looking at all the colors and their names too. I also made sheets for the Neocolor II watercolor crayons and the all the watercolor paints I have.













Don't you just love all the color names, like shiraz and prussian blue and carmine and vermillion and more.  I can't begin to tell you how much fun I had in making all these little squares of color.  I was almost disappointed when I ran out of materials. It will be really nice to have these pages as reference for future work.

Tell me do you make little charts like these for your supplies?

6 comments:

  1. hi!
    i signed up too! I was late signing up so i am still waiting for my info! I can't wait, it just looked fun to me!
    love your color sheets, i do that with my markers! :)

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  2. I haven't made charts of my supplies but now that I see how much fun you had I think I'll start making them.

    The paint palette looks great. I like a nice big palette with lots of spaces for paints.

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  3. I am so excited for you! Alisa's class looks great. I made a chart once, also somewhere around 1997. I think it's time I go do that again. I had forgotten all about it. Oh gosh! I hope you have fun!

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  4. That looks like a fun class ! I love Alisa.
    Never make charts. If I have time to be painting, I want to paint, not organize but I can see how fun it would be to have such a great inventory of what you have. And the charts look so nice...
    Enjoy, Kate !

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  5. i am taking the class, too! i haven't made any charts yet but am just loving what an inspiring teacher she is.

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  6. yes i love reading color names and any fragance or shampoo or lotion
    they are so poetic at times

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