New Paper

recently Lynne Hoppe shared a watercolor paper

made in Italy

100% cotton

that is new to me

it is Amalfi Amatruda paper

I like it

soft and feels very cottony

took the paint wonderfully

(but roughs up if one needs to erase pencil lines,

so I will attempt to not need to erase ;-))

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(I am not sure what I think of this little landscape)

 a glimpse of how I organized my paint samples

in coin sleeves

so handy

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She paints Her world beautiful ~

she paints her world beautiful

her paintbrush much like a witch's broom

and 

a fairie's wand

breathes magic into the stones 

mushrooms and home of her life

as she births them

with 

color

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A while ago I bought a mini palette from Stephanie Law

I found it hard choosing the 37 colors

finally I took all my colors

made swatches

which I could lay out and ponder which one's I use/like most

(a project I wanted to do for choosing colors for paintings)

 I have since placed these color squares in plastic coin sleeves

blues on one page, browns the next and so on

so nice and orderly ;-)

amazing how even doing these squares satisfied my art craving

the palette is shy of 3" across

tiny 

tiny

tiny

I used it on this painting

and 

I was delighted that it worked quite well

it will be wonderful for hikes and traveling

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