Barbara Close - Trees Workshop - Calligrams & Sponges Day 4

Created: May 28, 2021
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This class was spread out as 1 - 2hour class every week for 4 weeks.

4th weeks class was Calligrams and more sponging. 

 

 

ID: Sponging - Ornamental Trees
Size: 8"w x 11"h

On Arches 90# HP watercolor paper. Masked off each tree, one at a time then using various watercolors and both a sea sponge and a basic rectangular sponge created my trees.

Wrote in the words with a 2.4 Parallel pen and Sumi ink, then shadowed with a pointed pen and red paint.

 

ID: Calligram - To Be Free
Size: 8"w x 11"h

On Staples 110# white cardstock penciled in my tree and wrote the quotes using a 2.4Parallel pen and various brown Holbien gouache. Colored pencil sky and watercolor grassy area.

Quote 1: To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world. Robin Williams

Quote 2: A tree lives by its roots. Change the roots and you change the tree. Change the trees and you change the forest. unknown

 

 

ID: Practice - Calligrams & More Sponging
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On Arches Text Wove paper.

I used a Zig Writer and a 2.4 Parallel pen for the calligrams.

A regular sponge and a sea sponge with various watercolors.

 

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