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Paint First Sketchbook Play

Paint First Sketchbook Play - image 1 - student project

Paint First Sketchbook Play - image 2 - student project

Paint First Sketchbook Play - image 3 - student project

Paint First Sketchbook Play - image 4 - student project

Paint First Sketchbook Play - image 5 - student project

I definitely struggled the most with the imagination blobs exercise, probably overworked it a bit. My favorite was the wet on wet critters, I ended up doing a bunch of ladybugs and butterflies. For my happy little landscape, I decided I liked it as is and skipped adding pencil to it. I thought the cutie faces and loose florals were fun as well.  I tried out different mixed media options in each exercise, I used watercolor, gouache, micron pens, acrylic ink marker, prisma colors, and conte crayons.

Paint First Sketchbook Play - image 6 - student project

Updated to show my bird painting, the right side is one that I did a few months ago for the "Bring Spring" Challenge with the prompt Birdsong. The left one is the one I did today, in gouache, trying to keep it somewhat loose and painting first (in mirror image) using the other side as my reference.