Saturday, June 27, 2009

summers past farms

Our San Diego SketchCrawl group met today at Summers Past Farms out east on highway 8. We had a group of 14 or so, including my husb. I did these flowers on a Moleskine page that I prepared yesterday. (Adhered a page from a book with matte medium, then lightly coated the page with absorbent ground.)

9 comments:

  1. Margaret Ann6/27/2009 6:46 PM

    Great page...lots of visual interest...You have the best ideas!!! :)

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  2. Janet6/27/2009 7:34 PM

    just found you via artunraveled. i'm in yuma, az, and have been to summers past many times. love it! must dig into your site some more, & might consider heading to phx in august for one of your classes.
    so glad i found you!

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  3. jojo6/27/2009 8:08 PM

    Jane you are amazing! You and Melly have inspired me so much.

    I did my first watercolor sketch today! Pete pushed me to sketch something in my house. You see I broke my big toe two days ago and can't wander to sketch my cacti. So I was postponing my sketching but Pete said to just do anything in the house and since I got a new Apple laptop - I sketched plastic apples - LOL. Thanks so much for your posts. They truly have inspired me.

    Muah,
    jojo

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  4. Alika6/28/2009 1:45 AM

    Ooh, I would like to do some sketching outside!
    Thank you for the link for this absorbent ground. I never heard about it, sounds interesting!
    May I ask you about your date on the picture? Why have you dated it as June 30?

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  5. Gill M6/28/2009 3:21 AM

    Lovely page Jane - very lively. Is this a Moleskine Sketchbook, or Watercolour book? Also I'm curious about the absorbant ground, do you find this helps?

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  6. Jane LaFazio6/28/2009 8:07 AM

    thanks for the kind words everyone! Gill, it's a watercolor Moleskine. I used the absorbant ground on the page from the book that I glued down because 1) I wanted to fade out the text and images 2) so the page would take watercolor paints.

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  7. Robbie6/28/2009 12:51 PM

    I love the ghost images and words behind this. Lovely!

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  8. Judy Merrill-Smith6/28/2009 6:12 PM

    Awesome sketch, Jane! The book page adds so much, too.

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  9. jeanette6/29/2009 10:31 AM

    I must get some of that absorbent ground! Sounds amazing and looks great!

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