Johannah spoke about the history of watercolor paints. More than just talk, though, she demonstrated some of the things we'd only read about before. Sure, we knew pigments were originally derived from earth, minerals and animals. But it was entirely different to actually see her convert bugs to pigment.
We couldn't have imagined the results when Johannah dipped into the bag of dusty black cochineal beetles above, ground them up and revealed the beautiful strawberry red color below. Even the water was beautiful! We were spellbound. In fact, the beetle color swatch was so lovely we've included it with our paintings. Scroll down and see.
Johannah also demonstrated some W&N media (below) and got everyone pondering ways to use them. And as if that weren't enough, she left samples of W&N primary colors and a blending medium to get us started! Watch us in the next few weeks. We're sure you're going to see some amazing new things.
Thank you, Johannah, for a wonderfully informative and entertaining session. Come back any time!
And we've only been off a week, but there's tons of news! Steve's spring concert was a huge success—and packed to the rafters as usual. Everyone had reports of early flowering...from apple trees to daffodils to morning glories. Cubs' opening day is less than a month away, we're all painting flowers and Ken got his official summer haircut. Yep, it's officially spring!
See you next week!
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