The Quiet Man. We watched this Sunday night. Its a classic. We've seen it before. My man really enjoys a good John Wayne movie, and he doesn't even have to be a cowboy. We enjoyed the countryside, the funny characters, the Irish culture. A great St. Patrick's Day movie.
Earlier in the weekend, Tori and I spent some serious time with watercolors.
I saw a new technique on someone's blog that works like this:
1. Get a nice rubber stamp (not too much detail).
2. Color the rubber with watercolor crayons. You can use multiple colors.
3. Spray the rubber stamp with a water mister, and stamp it onto paper.
or, spray the paper and stamp the colored stamp onto that.
We got crazy and stamped onto baby wipes, dampened kleenex, our hands...
It makes for a nice watercolor-y look.
Even our wipe cloths came out beautiful.
meanwhile...I took a mini-class from Julie Fei Fan Balzer:
Getting Started with Gesso
There are many kinds of gesso.
You can color your gesso with things like watercolors, acrylics, spray inks.
The point is to make a pretty surface that you can still draw or write on.
For this one (above), I laid down a layer of gesso, then made an impression with a fancy tool I have (discarded scotch tape reel) while the gesso is wet. When it dries, paint with watercolors, and see the texture? This would be a good background on an art journal page.
On pinterest I saw a picture like this tree above, drawn onto a vintage book page, then painted the background with gesso and gauche. I allowed some fun words to show through. This just took me a minute to do. I can't wait to experiment some more.
I've NEVER cooked a corned beef brisket.
Do you think I should try one for St. Patrick's Day this year?
Do you just plunk it in the crock-pot?
Maybe I better do some research. What makes it corned anyway?
