Travel, Read, Conserve

After a few months of training on charcoal and pastel drawing at the Seattle Visual Arts Studio , we started on our acrylics and watercolor journey. The prospect of being able to play with paint was exciting and daunting at the same time. I remember being all charged and ready to go paint colorful landscapes the first day, but I was really jumping ahead :) The first few lessons were spent on learning and really getting familiar with the color wheel, which sounds deceptively simple but in practice, is far from so. In our acrylic sessions, we used a limited color palette, and it was amazing to be able to create a very wide range of colors from just the three primary colors, and white, using a palette knife to control the portions of each color. For creating acrylic or watercolor paintings the basic techniques remain the same. We still started with creating several thumbnails to decide which composition we are most comfortable with to translate on to the canvas. The principal