The beetroot is the taproot portion of the beet plant, usually known in North America as the beet, also table beet, garden beet, red beet or golden beet. It is several of the cultivated varieties grown for their edible taproots and their leaves (called beet greens). Other than as a food, beets have use as a food coloring and as a medicinal plant. Pilot Falcon fountain pen with Noodler’s black ink and Holbein watercolors in a Stillman and Birn sketchbook.
The carrot is a root vegetable, usually orange in colour, though purple, black, red, white, and yellow varieties exist.It has a crisp texture when fresh. The most commonly eaten part of a carrot is a taproot, although the greens are sometimes eaten as well. It is a domesticated form of the wild carrot, native to Europe and southwestern Asia. The domestic carrot has been selectively bred for its greatly enlarged and more palatable, less woody-textured edible taproot. Pilot Falcon fountain pen with Noodler’s Black Ink and Holbein watercolors in a Stillman and Birn sketchbook.
Just when it is starting to look and feel like spring, we get a light snow to let us and our flowers know that spring is not here yet. The Daffodils look so sad almost in full blown bent over with the weight of the snow. The advantage is that this time of year, the snow melts quickly with the higher snow angles. Pilot Falcon fountain pen with Noodler’s black ink and Holbein/Daniel Smith watercolors in a Stillman and Birn.
Continuation a series of quick sky studies to explore various colors and techniques for painting skies. Colors used: Ultramarine Blue (Utrecht), Cadmium Orange (Utrecht) and Cobalt Teal (Holbein) painted wet on wet in a Stillman and Birn sketchbook.
Continuation of a series of quick sky studies to explore various colors and techniques for painting skies. Colors used: Indigo (Holbein), Ultramarine Blue (Utrecht), Raw Sienna (Mission) and Cobalt Teal (Holbein) painted wet on wet in a Stillman and Birn sketchbook.
Continuation of a series of quick sky studies to explore various colors and techniques for painting skies. Colors used: Cerulean Blue (Holbein) and, Cadmium Orange (Utretcht) painted wet on wet in a Stillman and Birn sketchbook.
This week are a series of quick sky studies to explore various colors and techniques for painting skies. Colors used: Indigo (Holbein), Iridescent Electric Blue (Daniel Smith) and Yellow Ochre (Holbein) painted wet on dry in a Stillman and Birn sketchbook.
Happy Easter to all. Holbein watercolor on a Strathmore watercolor card.
This is second attempt at quick pencil study of a beach cottage at the access to Ballston Beach in Truro, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. This is a little more focused and an image that I would like to try a more finished painting. Koh-I-Noor 4B solid graphite pencil with Holbein watercolors in a Stillman and Birn sketchbook.
A SKETCHBOOK ODYSSEY 