Ginger
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Our orange cat adopted us and demands attention often. My daughter named him Cheese Bagel (I do not know why…..everyone in the family just accepted it without question for some reason).
He likes to sit in my paint sometimes when he feels he is not getting enough attention. One day he walked through my blue paint mixture and his footprints travelled across a small piece of my watercolor paper I had as a scrap piece for testing colors out on. The result looked really cute and I ended up using it as my bookmark for almost a year until I lost it when I moved into our current home.
Here is a picture of Mr. Cheese Bagel (aka. Cheezie, Cheese Man, Cheese Bag, The Big Cheese).
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Summary:
My favorite paints are Daniel Smith, Holbein, and Beam Paints.
My favorite brushes are Black Velvet Silver round brushes but I use mop brushes sometimes when I paint larger pieces.
My favorite paper to play on is cheap Bee Inspired paper from Walmart but when I paint a “serious” one I like Arches.
Apparently I am long-winded and wrote a big old essay about my fave watercolor supplies and I wrote things out in detail, so I put a little summary at the top of this post to save everyone a lot of time. LOL!
I have six different types of paints I like to use. My first set was a cheap set from Amazon. I USED IT ALL UP!!!!
So then, I invested a little in myself and bought a more expensive kind from Andrea Nelson (at the time her site was called A Dream or A Day but now it is called Cozy Lark). I like how vibrant they are; however, over the course of two years my artwork has become less vibrant because I didn’t know about something called “light fast colors”. The purples and some blues on my artwork two years ago are fading and it has me a bit sad.
About a year ago, I invested a little more in myself and bought some individual tubes of Daniel Smith colors (Moonglow is my favorite). These seem to be holding more steady as far as light fastness goes. At least I don’t notice fading very much.
Recently, I invested a bit more in myself (actually, at this point I think I just have an addiction to buying watercolor paints…LOL). I bought some BEAUTIFUL individual paint stones from Beam Paints. Each of them are shiny and are made with ethical mica. Beam Paints are made to withstand fading and are STUNNING in person! No matter how I try to take pictures of my paintings the pictures do not do the real paintings justice!
Also, I learned on cheaper paper and for some reason I seem to do better on the cheaper paper than on the expensive stuff. Sometimes looking at a large blank paper is overwhelming so I cut it up into smaller pieces. I turn my paintings into postcards most times and mail them to my kids and family members.
None of these pictures are actually as pretty as they are in person. I love Beam Paints so much I could literally sit and paint abstracts all day long because of how beautiful they flow together!
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So cute! I don’t know which version I like more because they both are whimsical and cute! 🙂
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Lovely!!!!
