Friday, June 29, 2012

Roses, Red and Markers as Watercolors

If you've been following along the past few weeks you may be aware that I am taking Color Love with Joanne Sharpe. Now, I'm a photographer and a jewelry artisan who loves to doodle and sketch.

A friend asked me, in the kindest way, if I was playing with markers and taking non-photography e-courses as a diversion or avoidance. See, I am also working on creating my own e-course and focusing on taking more pictures. I thought about it, because it's a good question, and the answer is no. What most people don't know is that I've known for the past few months that I was going to be getting injections in my knees (an alternative to surgery) and I also knew that this would probably mean that my taking picture expeditions were going to be limited while I worked through physical therapy. And, I was right, PT has been more intense than expected and just my normal walk everywhere in NYC, assigned exercises and climbing the 3 flights of stairs to my apartment has been enough.

Color Love has given me a diversion in the evenings after my long 'day job' days to stay creative and to release stress. I cannot write after my day job, I am just too spent.  It is why I wake up every morning early to write before I go to my day job. So, this week I played with markers and painted.

So, Tombow Bloom was an assignment in Color Love and this month Louise Gale's Creative Color Challenge color and theme was red and roses. I didn't quite follow Louise's full color palette of inspiration because I added blue but there is red and I did create roses.


I used Tombow markers, blended and painted with water.  I'll be honest here... I had no idea that Tombow markers existed until I saw them on Joanne's supply list. I also didn't know that I could turn them into watercolors and paint when using them. So much fun!

For my first Tombow marker, water painted piece...I'm quite pleased.

So, I'm not only going to link up with Louise Gale and her Creative Color Challenge I am also going to be brave and link up Paint Party Friday for the first time. Which is totally inspired by the lovely Tracey Fletcher King. You have to be brave sometime, right? Ok, I'm pressing Publish now so I don't change my mind.

21 comments:

  1. Great to have you join us at Paint Party Friday, Lori!!

    This is beautiful! I love the shades of blue and your roses are gorgeous!

    I've never heard of Tombow markers either - they sure look worth trying.

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  2. Beautiful Lori! Isn't it fun to explore all types of medium? Have a great weekend.

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  3. It really is fun that you got to explore a new medium! I just heard of Tombow markers myself (literally the other day) - they look like fun.

    Like the roses, especially the bud!

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  4. Loving the wonderful vibrancy of the colours. Happy PPF, Annette x

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  5. Hi and welcome to Paint Party Friday. I'm glad Tracey showed you the way here as we're a friendly bunch and it's always great to discover a new blog! I love your roses - they make me think of stained glass windows, maybe it's the black outlines, either way they turned out great and I learned something too as I'd also never heard of Tombow markers!!
    Sorry to hear about your knee injections. Hope you'll be back to full strength soon. I am jealous you have New York as your playground - we got married there a couple of years ago and it became my favourite city in the world!

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  6. Very pretty Lori and sounds tempting to try! Hope you have luck with your injections and things work out without surgery. Thanks for sharing the lovely roses!

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  7. Very very cool!

    It seems to me that all creativity is connected--for example, I've been doodling/zentangling a lot lately, and pretty soon I'll go back in the studio and pick up the paintbrush again, and this little break will influence my paintings in some subtle way--

    It's kind of like exercising your whole body, rather than just, say, your arms. Of course, it's waaaaay more fun than exercising, at least for me!

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  8. I got introduced to tombow markers when I took a workshop at CREATE with Joanne. I love how you used them. Great job!

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  9. Fantastic roses. Joanne introduced me to Tombows as well in her Letter Love course...and I love them! Good for you for listening to your body and your heart to focus on what you need to do now while remaining confident about what you'll be doing next (can't wait to see your ecourse!!) Keep up the gorgeous work xx

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  10. You are quite right to be pleased - these roses are gorgeous. Never heard of Tombows - off to investigate if I can get them here in England...

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  11. I haven't heard of those markers but looking at the colours I am thinking I had better find out more... soooooooooo happy you are joining us here as everyone is supportive and wonderful which means you are a perfect fit...
    the PT sounds like no fun but hopefully you will be back on the mend sooner rather than later.... not being able to explore like you usually do must be quite hard... and as I type this I am sitting under my gorgeous and treasured Lori Moon photo which is on the wall of my studio... have I told you lately how much I love it!!!!

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  12. Have never heard of Tombow markers before, but they look great! Want to try them now, too!
    I am your newest blog follower also!! :)
    ♥♥♥
    Happy PPF!!
    Mary
    Mixed-Media Map Art

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  13. Way to be brave! The roses are lovely.

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  14. lovely flowers! those markers look AWESOME

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  15. Your roses are full of energy and those colors are really alive, great job!

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  16. Beautiful, love the vibrant colors!

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  17. Welcome to PPF. I'm fairly new to the party too. Lovely, lovely roses. Thanks for the tip on the markers. I may have to try them out.

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  18. Beautiful roses! I love the contrast with the background - stunning colour combination. Great to be exploring new tools - trying to do a little of that myself at the moment... there's so many things to discover :-) Hope your knees improve quickly so you can get your camera back out too. Looking forward to seeing what the next colour challenge brings! Mandy

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  19. Your roses are fabulous!! You should link this up to the Artist Playroom at "just add water, silly"!! It's a garden theme this week!!

    I love the shaded background and the colorful roses, so beautiful!I dearly want to take Joanne Sharps letter e-course!! Hope your knees are better soon!!

    Hugs Giggles

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  20. This is a stunning piece. I love the red flowers with the bright blue background it works so well. I am really keen to try these Tombow markers - sounds like great fun.

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  21. The roses are astounding, but that's the photographer part of you. . . we are a different breed in seeing things just a bit differently. Excellent. Blessings, Janet PPF

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