Watercolor: Glazing

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

While many folks do not care for watercolor because it shows everything...that can be used to some nice effects.

These are just some initial practice, playing around with the technique. Learning, always learning.

Painting: More Acrylic Ink!

Sunday, July 19, 2026

Highly productive!

Sort of have to be, as the dried out leaves/ferns are waaaay more difficult to work with. They become too delicate to pull cleanly off dried pieces.

At least I have my paint assistant to lend a paw.

Painting: Botanical Acrylic Ink Diptychs

Friday, July 17, 2026

Scale is a finicky thing with these acrylic ink pieces. Too large, and they look like wallpaper!

So I started splitting my 11x15s in half with tape. Really like the effect of these split diptychs.

Painting: Acrylic Ink without the Botanicals

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

With all this botanical printmaking, I did experiment a bit with not using leaves and ferns, to some interesting effects.

And then there's when you use botanicals...but the final pieces don't really look like you did!

Still pretty though!

Painting: Large Acrylic Ink Botanical Prints

Sunday, July 12, 2026

Lots and lots of experiments with different foliage...dripping ink on top, pressing into ink, water levels, etc. etc.

Some come out great, others come out murky and looking like wallpaper!

Painting: Acrylic Ink Botanical Prints

Friday, July 10, 2026

We interrupt your regularly scheduled watercolor post bonanza with this very important update on...acrylic ink botanical prints.

'Been having a lot of fun playing with acrylic inks and figuring out how best to get the botanical prints to show up in some interesting way. Having some success, just need MORE experimenting...