Everyday Sketching 2025 Week 15

This week’s sketching. Not much sketching this week, actually, but plenty of color swatching.

I swatched the rest of the supergranulating paints. I have had the big set for a couple years, and never swatched it, so now it is very nice to have that done.

I’m not sure what I think about these supergranulating paints. For the most part, they do granulate beautifully. A lot of them seem a little pale to me, unless I am really painting it pasty thick. There are a handful, however, that I thought were really interesting and lovely. But as ever, to really know a paint, it takes more than a color swatch. I haven’t color mixed, nor have I painted subjects with them.

Color swatching, however, is a great calming activity. Like Jean Haines’ book title, Painting Yourself Calm. Though her technique is all about lots of water and flow, I find color swatching quite soothing, too.

I’ll be on a family vacation this next week or so. I intend to sketch, and I hope to post a bit about it while on vacation, but I don’t know if I’ll have the time, or the means. If not, I’ll certainly post afterwards. I haven’t actually travel sketched much, though I really want to. Travel sketching, and sketching on location, is a big mental block, so let’s see how I do next week!

If nothing else, I know I’ll take a lot of photos, and I can always sketch them later!