After watching Lisa Spangler @sideoats do a short video mixing quinacridone magenta and peacock to get a near-blue, I decided to stick with this Christmas palette being most close to the @lettersparrow Holiday Hues palette. I already owned most of the colors in the collaboration palette but for those who don’t, I highly recommend ordering from Letter Sparrow!
(That’s a Christmas colored lap quilt in the background, sewn by my mother❣️)
Lisa Spangler has a new collaboration with Letter Sparrow for a “Holiday Hues” palette of Christmas colors; I already own most of the Letter Sparrow colors included — all but the ruby red and pearl shimmer.
And Art Toolkit just released a bright red Demi Palette which I added to my collection. Just the color for a Christmas palette! But which combination do I go with? My pyrrol scarlet is close to ruby red and my grey of grey is sort of silvery. Or I can mix a ruby red color with quin. magenta and sunflower yellow, making room for a blue, which I would miss. Or skip the silver-like grey for both reds and a blue?
We are now on our way home, but I thought I’d post a sketch of my art tool bag: a Delfonics bag insert, size M, that I added a carrying strap to (I chose black so it would look more purse-like and hide dirt, forgetting how red-gold corgi hair would adhere to it!). Having much more room than my Art Toolkit, it holds plenty of supplies as well as regular “purse” stuff for longer trips. The cross-body strap holds tools where they can be easily grabbed even if I am standing up.
While we were in Kansas this past September, Bill’s brother David gave me an old wooden cupboard that had belonged to their grandmother. He said he didn’t know what she had kept in it.
I knew. David was only 5 years old when I first met their grandmother, whose home was as full of collectibles as a proper Victorian lady. And years ago she had given me these mismatched bits of dolls china — that she used to keep in the old cupboard. Now they are reunited, after all these years.
I also have a child-sized cast iron skillet and iron with wooden handle, both childhood toys of Grandma’s.
While camping along Lake Conroe this past week, I ended up reading more than sketching. When we weren’t walking with Butters, that is. She is a very social corgi and there were new people and animals to meet!
I only managed to draw this tiny building just off of an intersection in Montgomery (seen on our way) and a couple of berry varieties found in the forest.
