Summer Corn

Watercolor on Fabriano Artistico hot press paper in 6×8″ sketchbook
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Yay! It’s the weekend at last. Today was about making a lengthy To-Do list and then checking things off, one at a time. I got halfway through the list but all the important stuff got done and I rewarded myself with a latte from Peets. By the time I finished cleaning up and organizing the studio I was too tired to work on an oil painting (which I do standing at an easel…with all those brushes to clean at the end). But sitting at my drawing table painting with watercolor and listening to a good book was just perfect.

First I drew with pencil, including every kernel, which was fun (thanks to the strong Peet’s coffee?). After I put a tiny dab of masking fluid on the kernels I painted every other kernel with a touch of the brush so that each kernel would dry separately rather than all blending together. I went back and added a darker golden color color to shadow each kernel and added some cobalt violet in the shadowy spaces between the kernels.