Sketches sparkle with light probably because the weather has been no fun. The Latvian weather has been very unpredictable. Since I am always drawing and painting mostly from life and using real objects, that was quite upsetting. I did not get all depressed, but moved on as much as I could.
For time saving purposes, I am sometimes outlining and drawing with black pen. I do not have to use glasses that way which is great because glasses can destroy proportions and distort the visual perception.
I love cheerful colors!
We were doing parrots in the Exotic birds drawing workshop. Everybody loved them!
I was very happy also that I finally obtained the St. Petersburg watercolor set. I wanted these paints ever since I was a small kid when I saw one artist painting with them. I got them now at the age of 55, actually my birthday is just some weeks away, so it’s a nice birthday gift for myself. These paints are said to be the best in the world just because they are made of the purest and best really natural ingredients. I love these watercolor paints: they have excellent transparency, brightness and they are very pure.
The sun is beating down today, so we are having some Mexico weather this week. Isn’t that crazy how I was freezing in my leather coat just a week ago, and it is advisable to wear nothing more than a swimming suit at the moment? Too bad, no swimming pool anywhere here, but I suppose, I can survive that, too!
I am a child of the sun, my horoscope sign is leo, and this immediately changes my inner settings. I don’t care how hot it gets, whenever it is sunny, I am happy.
I would love to express the hugest THANK YOU to all those fellow bloggers, friends and students who did not stop encouraging me during the bad weather period and are still following my trip to Europe, Latvia.
Beautiful, beautiful watercolors, Inese!
Thanks Leslie! I appreciate your kind comment since you are such a master with watercolor!
I love how watercolor gives everything such soft edges-so pretty!
Thank you so much! Watercolor is flowing and mixing itself, and it is fast, as well. I especially need this feature when traveling and doing quick sketches!
Lovely work! In spite of constraints artwork must go on. (I hope you will let us know what you think of those st. Petersburg’s, compared to other brands of watercolor….I haven’t bought any yet)
Thanks Cynthia! Exactly, nothing can stop art from being created! I knew these paints were much appreciated by many local artists and always hoped to get some. I bought the moderately priced set, there were more expensive, too. I will ask my daughter to always send me replacement colors when I am out of these! I did not feel extreme difference, however, they are very strong and saturated. They do not create much mud and flow fantastically.
Lovely sketches!
Thank you so much! Some days were so rainy that all I could do was sit under a roof and draw!
Love your chatty lovely post! And your drawings are really good, you manage to capture the essence of what you are observing .
Thanks so much, I really appreciate you stopped by! I was in a good mood just because the weather showed its sunny side. I love drawing, have been doing this since early childhood, so that comes to me effortlessly. I admire simple objects in the garden, whenever I get a chance, I would sketch or draw some. I’m using so called blind drawing when one looks mostly at the object and less at the paper. I suppose, everybody who’s been doing this for long time develops this technique.
Beautiful watercolors.
Thank you Mary! So are your pastels, I will leave some comment when I visit next time. The Internet has been torturing me so much at this location, I mean, the connection, that I was really upset I could do very little since the largest pages or sites would not even load.
One of my favorite subjects to view in a painting is parrots, they are so beautiful and colorful. I love your delicate work on these.
This was my first attempt ever to draw a parrot! I had intended to draw other birds for the workshop, but things went their own way this time. I’m glad you found your favorite bird attractive in these sketches.
I think I was born with it. Ever since I remember myself, I was always drawing or painting.
They are all so beautiful..
Thank you so much! I couldn’t take very good pics, but I’m glad about all these kind comments! I can see how huge is the difference when I use the proper camera, oh well, that will have to wait until I’m at home!
Can you imagine, it’s late night here? The time zone difference is 7 hours, jet lag was bothering me for quite a while.
Being a very amateur and beginner … I appreciate the sketches and painting you did. it is not easy to do… it’s going to take me a very long time to come close to what you do… if ever Diane
Thanks Diane! I’ve been drawing all my life, I simply had this gift already as a small child. However, we are learning as long as we live, I’m no exception. The truth is everything takes some practice and some effort. Who cares how much time you spend on painting? The main thing is that you like working in that direction. The more we do, the better we become.
Lovely paintings. I’m so happy for you that you got the painting set you’ve always wanted. I’ve never heard of that set. I did some plein air painting yesterday, and my daughter spilled my watercolor pencils down a planter, and we could not get them back. Deep sigh. Still, we had fun. 🙂 I hope you have a lovely time in Latvia. I remember you went last year, too, didn’t you? Must be nice to be able to spend a lot of time with your family. Hugs, Brenda
Thanks Brenda! You’re right, my daughter’s wedding was last year in August. I came this time because my mom thought she was getting very old (she’s just 84) and wanted to see me. Apart from the weather, everything else was nice.
I’m sorry to hear you lost your painting supplies, well, that’s replaceable, at least you had fun. Longing for home already, it’s been almost a month. It is nice, but it’s so difficult to try to paint sitting wherever happens. It was windy today, everything flying away.
So nice to exchange some word with you again!
Yes, I appreciate your friendship, I was happy you stopped by. 🙂
So do I! I am at the moment 7 hours ahead, that way I didn’t catch anything written by you in my reader. This morning, I was really early, so I saw your new post.
I am pretty dissatisfied by the reader. It forgets likes and it does keep a list of most visited sites. Wouldn’t that be useful?
I was very dissatisfied with anything. My new followers were not updated, I didn’t receive e-mail notifications, just here and there and likes from the reader also did not show up under other bloggers articles. I contacted support, and I suppose it’s ok now. Who knows? Maybe since I changed location something was off. Nothing is perfect, but WordPress is still way better than any other blogging platform.
I’ve never tried the others, but I have heard such good things about WP.
I tried, I even have somewhere leftovers of my blogger blog and some other beginnings which I should delete, in fact, nothing worked better than WP because of clarity, ease of use and ability to interact with others.
Good to know! 🙂 I apologize if this came through twice, I’m having connectivity trouble.
No problem, it didn’t. Lots of work. Two of these paintings have already found their owners. I have one commission yet, so I’m doing drawings for that. To offer more color and layout choices.
That’s wonderful news! Yeah!
People really like these simple drawings. Evita who got the sweet peas told she loved colors and lines. The Garden berries had attracted with color and shape of berries. So sure, it is nice. Thanks Brenda for the follow-up!
These are beautiful 🙂
Thank you! I appreciate your kind comment!
Awesome! i would buy one !
Thanks David! These were liked a lot. 2 originals are already gone, I’m working on similar stuff, but when I get over the jet lag, I’m going to place links to Fine Art America on the art sales and design page so that prints and cards are available, as well!
Your paintings are so delicate and quite lovely. I’m glad you are lavishing these new water colors on yourself. It is in the small generousities we gain great pleasures and joy. Did you know the Bible says “Every good and perfect gift comes down from above from the Father of lights.”?
These sketches are probably delicate because of the objects I was drawing. It is possible to get the essence of the object on paper or canvas sometimes, but it can also happen the other way. Our tastes are different, so I should be fine with “quite lovely”, as well, even though, I assume they came out really good because I had no proper place to draw or paint, plus images and their colors on your screen will depend on the properties of your monitor, even size of it. I had not heard this particular saying, but I believe that we should return to the society what we have been given. That refers to anything: talents, abilities, financials, etc.
Thanks for sharing your summer moments with us.
Thanks Monica for stopping by! I hope your new projects are working out nicely!
I enjoy anything that helps make it through a rainy day. And your watercolors are beautiful.
Thanks! I am the same way, anything which helps decreasing the dullness is good, especially some painting.
yah for summer weather! these look great!
Thanks! I cannot do anything about the weather, so I could paint at least!
I love the colors in all of these. You paint beautifully.
Thanks Carol! In fact, these were painted with my grandson’s paints, I only later got the good paints, I suppose, kids can do very well with what they have.
Very beautiful colors and very luminous! j’ <3
Thank you! These were done from real garden objects.