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View fullsize A lot of the time my sketchbook entries are separate within a spread because I like to look at the differences or similarities. Today though I “connected” them, partly because I had wet tempera left and I had a few more minutes to work.
View fullsize A couple recent entries I enjoyed making. Graphite, colored pencil, watercolor, and gouache. Thanks for looking! _____________________________________________ ©Heather Smith Jones #hsmithjonessketchbook #heathersmithjones #watercolor #contempora
View fullsize Around ten or eleven years back I made a series of watercolor paintings called, “Oceans and Wheat”. Maybe one or two of you might remember the series, who visited my (then) Etsy shop? Anyway, that series came to mind after the color medit
View fullsize This morning I sat down to work in my sketchbook for a few minutes and @lisasolomon and her color meditations came to mind. This entry is inspired by her and she has a new book @a_field_guide_to_color releasing soon! I felt such calm after painting t
View fullsize Two things: 1) I look at this entry and see a section that I want focus on further. 2) I am starting to write again, for myself, notations of what I notice in the world, experienced on our morning walks. Elements of what I wrote yesterday influenced
View fullsize WIP. This morning I got out this 10x10” piece of SP paper I had cut down well over a year ago. I also uncovered my butcher tray watercolor palette and a couple gouache colors. I love the texture of soft press paper and am enjoying making this p
View fullsize Sometimes you only get ten minutes and you just have to paint something before you need to do the next ten tasks in your day. Limited time also meant I used only one brush and added color to the wet colors I was using in my palette, so it is more to
View fullsize Today’s entry: I had just finished a bit of office work when my daughter fell asleep. I hadn’t eaten lunch yet so I told myself I’d just work in here about 15 minutes. That turned into 30. I kind of wanted to draw more detail around
View fullsize Yesterday’s sketchbook entry: practicing calm. _____________________________________________ ©Heather Smith Jones #hsmithjonessketchbook #heathersmithjones #watercolor #contemporaryart #abstractpainting #abstraction #createeveryday #sketc
View fullsize This week my daughter has been needing more time than she typically does to fall asleep for her afternoon nap, (teething perhaps) so I’ve been quietly working in my sketchbook as she wiggles, babbles, and cries herself towards sleep. She needs
View fullsize I’ve been getting back into my sketchbook lately, drawing and painting during my daughter’s naps and down time. Perhaps I’ll begin sharing here again from time to time? - Thank you for looking. _____________________________________