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Day 22: Part B - another Christmas Car

day 1-22, latest: Car and another car - image 1 - student project

Day 22: Christmas Car

Times like these I wish real life had a symmetry tool.
day 1-22, latest: Car and another car - image 2 - student project

Day 21: Reindeer

day 1-22, latest: Car and another car - image 3 - student project

This one I did in Procreate.
day 1-22, latest: Car and another car - image 4 - student project

Day 20: Letter to Santa

I got to try out the quinacridone rose straight out of the tube for the candy cane. Flat lays are nice and easy so I really liked that. I see now that I need to fix the shadow for the oranges.... day 1-22, latest: Car and another car - image 5 - student project

Day 19: Nutcracker

Another fun one to draw. 4"x5" (10x13cm) mostly daniel smith watercolors.

day 1-22, latest: Car and another car - image 6 - student project

Day 18: Hot wine

I'll try to come back to this one later.

Day 17: Candle

I think this one would be quite pretty in gouache. Doing the shadows and the pine needles was my favorite part.

day 1-22, latest: Car and another car - image 7 - student project

Day 16: Bunny

I did this one in Procreate while I was watching tv with my husband.

day 1-22, latest: Car and another car - image 8 - student project

And here is Day 16 Bunny in actual watercolor

This one is pretty tiny (4" or 100cm square) and it was fun to do it that small. I got a new red that I like much better (quinacridone rose mixed with a tiny amount of azo yellow) so that made the hat really pop.

day 1-22, latest: Car and another car - image 9 - student project

Day 15: Oranges and Cinnamon

I’ve never seen a star anise and it shows.

day 1-22, latest: Car and another car - image 10 - student project

Day 14: Elf

Loved drawing this one and all the stripes ended up being pretty meditative. I resisted the urge to use the tiniest brush to do them. Turns out, it's actually easier to use a larger brush because you don't have to pick up paint as often.

Technical stuff: 12x14cm fabriano paper. Princeton Velvetouch #6 long round brush and daniel smith paints (still haven't found a good red) I ended up mixing quinacridone magenta with some light pyrrole red with varying levels of success. I mixed the green using just a bunch of stuff. Can't remember what all went in there, now. Phthalo turquoise was the base, I think. I quite like the diluted moonglow as the "white".

day 1-22, latest: Car and another car - image 11 - student project

Day 13: Cookies

I've had this bottle of drawing gum for a year and this is the first time I've used it. I can't stop thinking of the possibilities now! This project was an absolute joy to do. I find 5 pointed stars very difficult to draw even though I do them all the time when doing glass beads. This gave me some much needed practice. I did them how I now do leaves - spine first. I draw the "spine" and then I use that as a guide for drawing the points of the star. So much easier!

day 1-22, latest: Car and another car - image 12 - student project

DAY 12: Gifts

Fun but I am glad I don't have to count the brushstrokes. :) I used the Canson cotton paper again. Still don't like it.

day 1-22, latest: Car and another car - image 13 - student project

DAY 11: Lantern

I must have drawn this about 3 times before it clicked. I really enjoyed painting it, though. I can't wait to get to the bunny so onward we go!

day 1-22, latest: Car and another car - image 14 - student project

Day 10: Cardinal

Well, I don't know what it is about birds but I cannot seem to figure out what goes where.

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Day 9: Wreath

Finished this one in 20 minutes! Woot! This is a fun and non-fussy painting. Might add some highlights with gouache when it's all dry. This time I used 100% cotton Canson paper. Not at all like Arches. I will use this paper with gouache paintings because it is very smooth but doesn't really work all that well with watercolor.

day 1-22, latest: Car and another car - image 16 - student project

Day 8: Mittens!

So fun to paint this one. I actually used the arches paper for this and it really did help when doing the shading layer.
day 1-22, latest: Car and another car - image 17 - student project

I skipped bells day because I was out of town but here is ...

Day 7: Frosty berries! This one was fun to do. Finally found a use for viridian green.

day 1-22, latest: Car and another car - image 18 - student project

DAY 5: Snuggletime

This was not my favorite but done is better than perfect.

day 1-22, latest: Car and another car - image 19 - student project

Day 4 - Snowman

Other than when my cat bumped my arm and gave him extra cheek, it went pretty well. Getting a bit faster.

day 1-22, latest: Car and another car - image 20 - student project

Day 3 - ribbon - this was fun to imagine where the folds and shadows might be.

day 1-22, latest: Car and another car - image 21 - student project

Day 2 - candied apple

I found this one a challenge! I haven’t worked with red a lot and getting different variations of red on red was quite an exercise. I learned that light pyrrole is too orange and quin magenta is too pink and alizarin crimson is just dull as dishwater. Guess who is going shopping. This gal! Yay!

day 1-22, latest: Car and another car - image 22 - student project

Day 1: Ornament
Fun and quick! This was a great warm up. I haven't picked up my paintbrush in months so this was nice to accomplish in a free moment this morning.

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