Fodder School 3: May Project This month’s lesson, taught by Susanne Randers, is relaxing and uncomplicated with minimal art supplies (so far). I needed that kind of project. I love her introduction: The first part of each month’s lesson is fodder making. Floral doodles was right up my alley. Loved it! Next lesson was painting various substrates with Ecoline liquid watercolors. Glad I already had a large stash of those. (Some papers did not accept this medium well.) I  decided to use her color palette, as pink, yellow, and green is a palette I have never used before. Guess what? I like it! (Colors shown are much less vibrant than they truly are. The pigment and light fight each other in my camera.) Now for lots of mark-making with a variety of funky tools . . . skewers, sticks, feathers, straws, bottle caps, kitchen tools, ink droppers, credit cards, markers, etc.  Final fodder making lesson is making portfolio pages and cover. This calls for spray inks, and I am resistin...

  Windows to the World Challenge May challenge by Louise Browning @artsolute_beginner. 4 weeks in May to do watercolor backgrounds and fun abstract doodles in grid patterns for the #windowstotheworldchallenge.    My first grids. A 4-grid and a mixed grid. Fun to watercolor again! Now to brush up on my tangle repertoire, as I haven’t tangled for quite some time . Funny how the patterns become less mentally accessible without diligent practice. We’ll see what happens.  I love painting with metallic watercolors! First piece is completed!