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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Contingencies



While I wait for my memories of San Diego to return, here's a job I did for my friend Bono Mitchell, the Graphic Goddess. When watercolor works, it's the most satisfying medium there is (when it doesn't it's an invitation to homicide). For the ground I used one of my favorite mixes- Daniel Smith Quinacridone Burnt Orange and Grumbacher Terre Verte. The quinacridone is transparent and staining and the terre verte is opaque and sedimentary so you get lots of happy accidents while they fight it out on the paper.

As a bonus, here's a previous cover. To view the full series see this post.

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7 comments:

  1. Linette MooreAugust 5, 2009 at 9:01 AM

    Reading this, I think that my palette could stand a little more divisiveness. I open that thing up and they're all singing "Kum-ba-yah". And Cobalt Blue can't keep a tune.

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  2. FortranAugust 5, 2009 at 9:45 AM

    When I saw just the first part in my RSS reader, I thought "New 'Cul de Sac' book!"

    My disappointment was then replaced with jealousy at your amazing skills at watercolor.

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  3. HinziAugust 5, 2009 at 10:27 AM

    Hahahahahahahahahaahh...

    Wait a minute, which government program is this making fun of?

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  4. zero hourAugust 5, 2009 at 12:30 PM

    thanks for the coloring tip!

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  5. here today, gone tomorrowAugust 5, 2009 at 1:27 PM

    Mmmmmmmm....watercolors!!

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  6. paul bowmanAugust 7, 2009 at 4:42 PM

    Gee I really wish my industry had a trade rag with editors bright enough to use you for the occasional cover.

    Sock about to be lost from the highchair kid's foot: sublime.

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  7. FOctober 7, 2009 at 6:35 AM

    aha... great!

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