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March 24, 2013
by Bonnie Porter
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Intermezzo Classes Spring Tulips


Spring is in the air!  We are drawing and painting Tulips this month, practicing different watercolor techniques. Loose, wet-into-wet, dry brush and color mixing with fresh new paints on our palettes..  The best “formula” for a dark background?  Still “undecided”!  We wanted to try mixing Burnt Umber with Winsor Green, a velvety black mix we found in Making Color Sing, by Jeanne Dobie, but none of us have that green in our palettes.  So we went with Burnt Umber and Viridian.

September 30, 2012
by Bonnie Porter
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KinderArt Fall Classes

Warm colors of Autumn, captured in an over-sized Leaf in the style of Georgia O’Keefe. We started by examining the Flowering Dogwood leaves found in our own backyards. Then we did a blow-up line drawing on large paper and outlined it with yellow oil pastel. Watercolors are the perfect medium for blending a Fall palette.