Come With Me, Cupcake!

Posted on March 2, 2016 by treshabarger

aa Challenge 1 Cupcake (2)s

The candle came with it.

aa Challenge 1 Cupcake (1)s National Cupcake Day was February 29th and my online sketch/watercolor instructor challenged her students to celebrate it.

Food & Beverage: Black & White

Posted on February 6, 2016 by treshabarger

This was our tomato crop from a few years back. I think it was the whole tomato crop for that year.

Food 2 B&W s

I buy different water containers to trick myself into drinking enough water each day.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Food & Beverage

Continuous Line Drawing

Posted on February 4, 2016 by treshabarger

Lesson 3 of my online sketch and watercolor class is an exercise in continuous line drawing. Once we start, we don’t pick up our pen until we’ve finished the drawing. There’s no preliminary drawing in pencil, either. I did practice once before drawing on the watercolor paper.

I started out with one object, just to see how it went.

aa Lesson 3 Continuous Line Drawing (1b)s

Then I used all three peppers. Fortunately, the peppers were on sale at the grocery store.

aa Lesson 3 Continuous Line Drawing (2b)s

Once I started painting, I saw I missed some definition, especially on the red pepper.

aa Lesson 3 Continuous Line Drawing (2a)s

The bonus lesson was to use our non-dominate hand to draw. Now there’s an adventure! It’s a pin cushion in the shape of an easy chair. I didn’t want to paint it black, so I decided to use purple instead.

aa Lesson 3 Non Dominate Hand Drawing (1b)s

aa Lesson 3 Non Dominate Hand Drawing (1a)s

Lime and Ruby Red

Posted on January 21, 2016 by treshabarger

A few more watercolors from my online class (Lesson 1, Bonus assignment).

I love Ruby Red grapefruit.

Three Fruits Three Times

Posted on January 20, 2016 by treshabarger

Fruit is the first lesson for an online watercolor class, Sketching and Watercolor Journal Style, by Jane LaFazio. This is the first watercolor class I’ve taken as well as my first online class. (At least, no other online classes come to mind right now. I love taking classes, so I might be mis-remembering this detail.)

I like the colors best in the first one, but the pear is out of proportion. The pear size is better in the second one, but the lemon ended up a bit angular. The third one is pretty good, but I still like the colors in the first one best.