Some posts start with drawing one leaf, then adding a branch, and before you know it, it’s a full grown oak. This post is like one of those:)
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I love Iron gates! This small gate above, with the overgrowing flowers (I believe in Balboa park, San Diego) was perfect for a little watercolor in my sketchbook, field palette, and foldable water bucket
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I carry them in my purse. If my wallet was not so bulky, there would still place for that too:)
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an extremely handy field palette from Cotman of Winsor Newton, 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch
when you push in the thumb grip. The (blue) brush coming with the palette, is too tiny for me*
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A gate to Tiananmen Square in Beijing is one of the X-number of things to see there.
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Iron pranks:) He did it in a minute while I was looking at iron frames. When I got wind of what he was doing, I asked him to do it again, because he and our son never failed to pass this store without making sure they hadn’t lost their touch:)
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If he’s not pulling an iron prank, he might be photographing another wall flower (found by Strands & Stitches, Laguna Beach – 1 1/2 hrs. N. of San Diego)
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Modified for Mandarin Orange
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Many reflections bouncing off car lights into Los Angeles at sunset. But the colors of the sky are a trade off for traffic:)
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* More details about the palete: one small water well. The colors are concentrated. The white areas on the palette I use for mixing my colors.
IS THERE A SUBJECT WHERE YOU CAN GO OFF IN GAZILLION TANGENTS?
(like I do here?)
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