Assignment #8 Susanne

Above are images from Laure Ferlita's Autumn Class. With the Tea cup image I had to change the original composition to fit the bottom orange into the picture. The rose on top was painted fairly fast. I believe I did it within the hour.

Assignment #5

The theme for this lesson with Laure Ferlita's course was painting leaves with full pigment load, scratching out the veins with a sharp object such as credit card, or in my case an edge of a steel ruler. We also used the spritzer to keep the paper moist and allow it to bleed outwards. This was slightly difficult as my cat was laying on my table thus confining me to a small space to work. Some of my pigments did dry out relatively fast. I also used the grating technique of watercolour pencil to capture the speckled look and snuck a tooth brush splattering as well. The one area that I had difficult is capturing the veins on the lower leaf. I should have practiced it first. It was a good lesson and I am always learning much from Laure's classes.

Welcome to my first posting on this blog. Since July of this year, I have been taking several online journaling courses with Laure Ferlita. I have enjoyed them tremendously and learning much from every experience. The above image is my second project in assignment #4 in the Imaginary Trip Through Autumn course. At this point I am slightly behind as I just finished her other course, Imaginary Trip To Paris. I had to laugh as I was painting this one as the pie looks like an alligator/crocodile face. One thing I am craving is making the above apple crisp. I think I shall go to the store and buy some apples. It is snowing outside right now but the warm apple crisp will be just perfect.