Comments on: About Watercolor Pencils http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/about-watercolor-pencils Art, Animals, and the Creative Experience Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:06:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: MonaMajorowicz http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/about-watercolor-pencils#comment-311 MonaMajorowicz Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:46:43 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/about-watercolor-pencils#comment-311 Your work sounds imaginative and unique. That is the hardest thing for any creative person, is to do something that is their own. And you write! Cook and garden. excellent! My talents are pretty limited to art and perhaps being a business woman, running my art business. Not a writer, though I do loads of it. Definately not a cook. :) Your work sounds imaginative and unique. That is the hardest thing for any creative person, is to do something that is their own. And you write! Cook and garden. excellent!

My talents are pretty limited to art and perhaps being a business woman, running my art business. Not a writer, though I do loads of it. Definately not a cook. :)

]]> By: Anni http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/about-watercolor-pencils#comment-303 Anni Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:17:48 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/about-watercolor-pencils#comment-303 Hi again Mona, I was given soft pastels and tried using them once last year. It wasn't a very successful attempt at all. I couldn't keep the colours crisp and fresh looking, it all seemed a smudgy mess in the end. Perhaps pastels aren't for me. I often admire artwork in them though. You ask what do I create? If you asked my partner that, he'd most probably say 'a mess' because I work on the kitchen table :) I don't paint any one specific thing. My trademark is colour and imagination, I love using it. I also enjoy making people smile and quite a few of my paintings are whimsical. I have painted my own version of Munch's painting 'The Scream' but mine was called 'Bad Hair Day'...someone from the Netherlands has that now. I also paint nuns. I have had them skateboarding down a steep hill and last month there were eleven of them on a golf course. Over the last two weeks I have been writing a short play for 5 characters (2 scenes) so the brush has had a rest and I have been typing at the keyboard. It will be performed by a local group in September. I like to cook too, which is another form of creating. I guess we all create in one way or another when we do things...gardening, taking a photo, even writing a letter. My big tabby cat has just come in completely soaked as we have heavy rain at the moment. He has sat next to me, with his toes spread out...and is systematically licking in between them... and meowing. Leaves are begining to change colour and fall here...beautiful time of year for nature's palette. ~ Anni PS. Yup, totally agree with your comment on Beatrix making it ...in a very male dominated society in the early 1900's. Doubt if she would of though...if her background hadn't been so affluent. Hi again Mona,
I was given soft pastels and tried using them once last year. It wasn’t a very successful attempt at all. I couldn’t keep the colours crisp and fresh looking, it all seemed a smudgy mess in the end. Perhaps pastels aren’t for me. I often admire artwork in them though.

You ask what do I create? If you asked my partner that, he’d most probably say ‘a mess’ because I work on the kitchen table :) I don’t paint any one specific thing. My trademark is colour and imagination, I love using it. I also enjoy making people smile and quite a few of my paintings are whimsical. I have painted my own version of Munch’s painting ‘The Scream’ but mine was called ‘Bad Hair Day’…someone from the Netherlands has that now. I also paint nuns. I have had them skateboarding down a steep hill and last month there were eleven of them on a golf course.

Over the last two weeks I have been writing a short play for 5 characters (2 scenes) so the brush has had a rest and I have been typing at the keyboard. It will be performed by a local group in September.
I like to cook too, which is another form of creating. I guess we all create in one way or another when we do things…gardening, taking a photo, even writing a letter.

My big tabby cat has just come in completely soaked as we have heavy rain at the moment. He has sat next to me, with his toes spread out…and is systematically licking in between them… and meowing.

Leaves are begining to change colour and fall here…beautiful time of year for nature’s palette.

~ Anni PS. Yup, totally agree with your comment on Beatrix making it …in a very male dominated society in the early 1900’s. Doubt if she would of though…if her background hadn’t been so affluent.

]]> By: MonaMajorowicz http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/about-watercolor-pencils#comment-300 MonaMajorowicz Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:12:14 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/about-watercolor-pencils#comment-300 I loved the Beatrix Potter movie. Completely charming. Also I tend to lean toward the feminist side of things, so I liked that she went out and was successful in the mans world of the era. I know what you mean by a new set being a treasure. When I first got my full set of Holbein oil pastels they were like jewels, so bright and colorful. If was difficult to use them for awhile. So tell about what you create? I loved the Beatrix Potter movie. Completely charming. Also I tend to lean toward the feminist side of things, so I liked that she went out and was successful in the mans world of the era.

I know what you mean by a new set being a treasure. When I first got my full set of Holbein oil pastels they were like jewels, so bright and colorful. If was difficult to use them for awhile.

So tell about what you create?

]]> By: Anni http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/about-watercolor-pencils#comment-297 Anni Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:13:48 +0000 http://mona.myartbliss.com/post/about-watercolor-pencils#comment-297 As a child then living in England I used to be bought some Derwent Cumberland coloured pencils every Christmas. There was always such a magic opening them up on Christmas Day...a huge wallet, crammed with so many colours all unused, pristine...such treasure. I must give these watercolour pencils a try, I mostly use acrylic these days but should be far more adventurous and try watercolour and oils (rather impatient on the drying side of things). I watched the film "Miss Potter" a few weeks ago, about the life of the Britishwriter and artist Beatrix Potter who illustrated her books beautifully in watercolour, ones like The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Mr Jeremy Fisher etc... in the early 1900's. Thanks for this site, quite a delight. As a child then living in England I used to be bought some Derwent Cumberland coloured pencils every Christmas. There was always such a magic opening them up on Christmas Day…a huge wallet, crammed with so many colours all unused, pristine…such treasure.
I must give these watercolour pencils a try, I mostly use acrylic these days but should be far more adventurous and try watercolour and oils (rather impatient on the drying side of things).
I watched the film “Miss Potter” a few weeks ago, about the life of the Britishwriter and artist Beatrix Potter who illustrated her books beautifully in watercolour, ones like The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Mr Jeremy Fisher etc… in the early 1900’s.
Thanks for this site, quite a delight.

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