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‘In a marshland amongst the crocodiles, there float beautiful water lilies! Even in the Hell, one can find the good and the beauty.’ – Mehmet Murat Ildan Finished piece in watercolor paint. A perfect reminder how beauty grows in the mud and muck. We are in the mud but there’s always beauty and even a silver lining. Water lilies are known as symbols of rebirth and second chances. My silver lining is having this time of rest and recover. As much as I enjoy teaching it have taken a toll on my body and it’s been screaming for rest. This forced lockdown is what I needed so I can give again...
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With all the cray 😜 around the world finding ways to numb myself so it doesn’t get to me… too badly. With my watercolor classes cancelled for the current and upcoming spring session I’m considering offering classes online. Interested? Let me know. Here I’ve taken lesson 8 and just going with the flow and seeing how this unfolds. Yes I let creativity come thru instead of planning every step like I would in a commercial illustration environment. . What are you doing to deal with the current situation? . . 8. #artdiva #divinitychan #lily #waterlily #waterlilyart #watercolorvancouver...
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It’s flower week at the watercolor classes. Felt inspired by the simplicity and beauty of the lily symbolizing purity. Students were happy to attempt at doing this than the lemon.🤷🏻♀️ For the lesson we played with masking fluid for the flower (although technically not necessary), wet on wet for the background and wet on dry for most of the details. Working with shadow and light and learning to know when to use a lot of paint and when to pull back. Next week is the last session and is open studio! Students are to bring a picture they want to paint or can repeat one of the lessons from the...
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You know when your students are comfortable with you when they ‘groan’😣loudly after you show them the next lesson. 🤷🏻♀️ what? I figure lemon slice and segments would be a fun challenge to do. Right? Lol Mixture of wet on dry (lemon segments) and wet on wet (whole lemon🍋) techniques at play. As they say when life give you lemons make lemonade…. although instead of lemonade i’d rather make limoncello. 🥂Yes? . . . . . . #divinitychan #divinityart #vancouverartist #vancouverartclass #artclassesvancouver #lemonart #watercolorlemon #artistsofinstagram #watercolorpainting...
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One of my students work of a fun & challenging watercolor lesson I taught last night playing with various techniques at Douglas community center. She was worried how this will turn out but she rocked it don’t ya think? We played with taping creating this triangle shape a new experience than just using the whole page to paint on. For the background they got to pick a color to do wet on wet creating a gradient with the lightest on top. playing with color values for the trees painting wet on dry then wet brush stroke allowing the trees to bleed below creating the popular fog look....
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