Watercolor Gift

Last fall I bought two Winsor & Newton Bristol Water Colour Sketching Easels on clearance from the local Hobby Lobby for a really good price - 2 for half the full price of 1. I hadn’t used either much until today. It is light & portable and would be easy to carry around in the case for plein air painting.

My drawing board (large - 22″ by something - bigger than my 18″ x 24″ watercolor paper) does not fit into it stably - perhaps it is me - it does not seem overly stable to me so I will have to hold onto it and hope it does not fly out since it is just sitting in there and not held in there. I probably will use both more for display of finished artwork when I start going to arts & crafts fairs or shows, hopefully next year. It may be a nice idea though for taking my sketching into the living room while watching painting DVD’s though - my drawing table is not portable for doing that at all and I do not want to paint on the wood dining room table - I could ruin it quite easily quite fast. After moving, I no longer have the plastic patio table for artwork close to the TV.

Light Bulb Moment!

I can use the computer here in the office to watch those How To Dvd’s while painting - I hadn’t thought about that until just now - I am not used to having a DVD Player in the computer - the old one only had a CD Player. The laptop has one too so I could watch them at work during lunch too if I wanted to do so.

Studio Easel Usage?

I do not think these will be good studio easels though at all - they do not hold the watercolor blocks or the drawing board in a stable position for actual watercolor painting - I can probably use them for sketching while holding onto it at a guess. I will try painting in watercolor using it later today - after my grandson arrives and is settled in front of the TV with his video games.

While writing the Giclée Prints Explored article this morning, I ran across some helpful Artist Resources. As an artist, it never hurts to find help resources that you might not need this minute but might want or need somewhere in the future. As always, some of these may be helpful and some may not be … I have not done any serious research on them but just noticed them and decided to present them as possibilites for anyone interested to research.

1. Artist Help Network - it has a lot of interesting links to people and places I would not have thought of looking for - take a peek and see if anything is helpful to you in your art career.

2. Artist’s & Graphic Designer’s Market (book) by Writers Digest Books - This book is essential in my opinion for any artist - emerging or well-established. I always enjoy the articles and tehy are well-written with lots of good advice.

3. The Artist’s Market in Austin ( do a search on artist market and see what you find! Your area may have one you didn’t know existed!) - I used the search terms: Artist Market and then Art Market - don’t stop at page 1 or 2 … leaf through all of them to see if anything comes up - you might also want to put your city or state name in front of the words and try that.

4. artnet - I liked the artnet magazine … though mostly this site seems more geared towards Miami so in just a quick look around, it may not be much help to me personally some of the articles were quite interesting and I did like the horoscope

5. Santa Fe International Folk Art Market - this website was fascinating in terms of shopping for all different kinds of art from around the world - I would like to go just to see all the art

6. Giclée Fine Art Printing | allpconline.com, inc - I was very interested in their hologram Certificate of Authenticity for Limited Edition prints and online database of searching it by artist or serial number. They do charge for color correction and minor retouching - it says they do not charge for that if there are no significant “out of gamut” issues. They also provide an estimate before printing. I do advise reading the websites mentioned in my Giclée Prints Explored article BEFORE contacting them or any other printer about digital files and Giclée Prints just to be aware before dealing with a printer.

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