That’s my Grandma’s green glass bowl in the corner and her milk glass vase holding the hydrangeas. I’m working on simplifying and abstracting shapes and playing with color.
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Hydrangeas on the Breakfast Table
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Overflowing Fruit Bowls
While I was away from my blog, WordPress made some nice changes that are making it easier to post so I’m trying to get caught up with a few months of sketches and paintings. Today a couple of fruit bowls sketched in Procreate on the iPad.
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Found Animal Bone and Daffodils in Gouache
“Animal Bone and Daffodils,” gouache on watercolor paper, 11 x 8.5 inches
My dog found this animal bone on the trail in Wildcat Canyon. I don’t know what critter it was from but I assume possibly a deer that a bobcat, mountain lion or coyotes left behind. It was well-gnawed and growing moss.
I’m enjoying learning how to paint with gouache. It’s a lot of fun but definitely has its challenges!
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Baby Carnations in Milk Glass
I was really tired when I sketched this so it came out as tired and boring as I felt. That’s the great thing about Procreate and the iPad: Even when I’m too tired to paint I can still have fun and draw and paint.
More random goodies on the table and off (Fiona kitty!).
Continuing the series of morning sketches, mostly done of random stuff on the breakfast table.
Now that I’ve come out the other side of the kitchen remodel I’m so grateful to be done and be able to enjoy it, to have the house to myself again, to not continually have noise and dust despite the careful screening, and to have completed making seeming hundreds of decisions and purchases big and small. Now I get to return to a “normal” routine of painting, drawing, hiking and spending time with my dog, friends and family.
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Sketching Before Breakfast #4
I took a long break from posting to my blog and I have lots of good excuses. I created a bunch of draft posts of a series of iPad sketches I’d done at the breakfast table and then my kitchen remodel began. Four months later it’s finally finished! So here I am finally posting the drafts that I started months ago.
And we have more morning sketches. I was really trying to force myself to stick to 3 values for each object. My glass-topped table is so great with its frosted glass square design elements and reflections.
Another couple of days worth of stuff on my dining room table drawn before breakfast, with cantaloupe making a guest appearance.
Jana Bouc, Artist 