Jennie Kessinger

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Practicing Painting Skies and Local Color Palettes with Views from my Balcony

I've been inspired by Mimi Robinson's excellent book, Local Color - Seeing Place Through Watercolor - and have been challenged with paining cloudy skies. Also, I wanted to partciipate in Liz Steel's #fivedaysketchchallenge to draw/paint the same subject for five days. Here are my attempts.

08.29.16 - 8:26 am

08.29.16 8:26 am

08.30.16 7am

08.30.16 7:31 am

08.31.16 8:38am

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09.01.16 7:33 am

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09.02.16 9:45 am

09.02.16 9:45 am

Have you tried drawing the same subject for five days in a row? At different times? Or made any local color palettes? Here, I made the palettes first for Monday and Tuesday, and then on Wednesday, I did the landscape first then, the palette; and finally, on Thursday and Friday, I painted the landscapes and the palettes simultaneously. Which do you prefer?