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My magnolia, splotches and all #watercolor #annamasonart
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Goofing around while waiting for my masking fluid to dry. I like the little koi head peeking out at the top. #watercolor
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I have been painting, but I haven't been posting. Here's an exercise I finished up tonight -- water droplets on a petal. I only learned two things: water droplets are tricky, and even the heavy Arches paper can only take so much. #annamasonart #watercolor
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Greater Reston Arts Center
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A better picture of my blueberry #watercolor #annamasonart
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Blueberry painting today. It's much harder to work with just one color! #annamasonart #watercolor
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I stayed up late last night to practice painting with a class by #annamasonart I definitely made some mistakes, but it was a lot of fun to try out her technique. #watercolor
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Barcelona Reston
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Last shop window sketch for awhile...
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Sketch at Reston Town Center -- shop windows
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Today I sketched a shop window with muscley mannequins in action poses. #watercolor #urbansketching #Reston
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Another shop window today. Working out done frustration with jumpy lines and bright colors. #watercolor #urbansketching
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Trying out a new style today: loose and gestural, with just a few dabs of color. Not sure what I think of it yet. #urbansketching #watercolor
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J. Crew line-up #watercolor #urbansketching
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A street in Reston Town Center. I was using mostly mixes of windsor blue and red with yellow ochre, but I think I should have used a lemon yellow. The ochre makes it a little gloomy. #watercolor #urbansketching
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A quick sketch of a shop window today. #watercolor #urbansketching
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Yesterday's sketch -- my first time trying to paint water in a fountain. It's hard! #urbansketching #watercolor
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Practicing sketching what I see -- it's pretty fun, if you don't care what it looks like.
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Trying out ink wash again today. Such a crazy medium -- I'm still not used to it yet!
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First time doing an ink wash drawing. Wow, what a weird medium! #sketch #inkwash
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Nighttime walk with the dogs. Every time I stopped to draw something for more than ten seconds, they refused to budge even though Bill was trying to walk ahead with them. So this is what you get.
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Color wheels -- as close to fingerprinting as you can get, while still feeling like an adult.
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At the folklife festival on the mall today. #sketch
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Today I painted the Reston Hyatt for some reason. Art! #urbansketching #watercolor #sketch
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A quick painting of a bus stop near my house before the rain hit. #watercolor #urbansketching
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A particularly slapdash painting of the local movie theater today #sketch #watercolor #urbansketching
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A quick cafe sketch this morning. #urbansketching #watercolor #sketch
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Doodling in the park today, while waiting for Bill and the dogs to meet me and eavesdropping on a very angry phone conversation. #watercolor #urbansketching
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Barcelona Reston tonight --
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I love J Crew's crazy ideas of fashion, so I painted some shop windows today. #urbansketching #watercolor
