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Mrs.Ochiai’s cats / 2013

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C.Katou/The work is dyeing cloth by batik. These works are drawn with wax and dyed .

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“The great king of the forest” by Ashley Smith

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Watercolor Swatch Book

One of the issues I’m going to have at the Antarctic is that if I do any painting outside, it’s likely to be at or below freezing. When you work in watercolors, that’s a problem!

One solution that people have come up with is to use vodka instead of water. Vodka has a freezing point much lower than water (don’t ask me what it is, I looked here, got to the freezing point calculation and almost started crying: http://ask.metafilter.com/14128/At-what-temperature-does-vodka-freeze ). So, if I’m painting outside there, I will be doing vodkacolors.

One thing I’ve already solved is my swatches. I always paint a swatch of a new color and keep it with the other swatches so that I can see at a glance the hue and level of transparency each color has. However, if watercolor or gouache get wet, they re-activate. Where I’ll be, it’ll be wet, or snowing, or wet and snowing, and freezing, and kind of awful at least some of the time. To carry my swatches, I started painting them on to the type of watercolor I use (Arches Hot Press blocks, because I HATE wrinkled watercolor paper and I’m lazy) and then I stick them down on to some pages in a moleskine sketchbook I carry with me. Then I put packing tape right over the top of the swatches. It makes the pages waterproof, it’s cheap, and it doesn’t distort the color.

The top page I have shown here is something that might work out really well at the South Pole - it’s Derwent Graphitint pencils. They’re graphite pencils, but with watercolor pigment mixed in to the binder. They lay down like a slightly chalky colored pencil, but greyed down because of the graphite. When you paint clear water over the top of them, the watercolor activates and you can manipulate it like watercolor. The color change is fairly drastic with some of the colors, though, so I really needed a swatch page. Since I’m using a Moleskine watercolor book in the large size, so landscape orientation, roughly 8.5x11″ pages, I could slip a standard plastic page protector like you’d use in a binder over the top of the page. I stapled that into place, and so far, it works great. I’m a little worried about water running between the plastic sleeve and the page but that hasn’t happened yet.

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Tuxedo kitty with iced coffee. =)

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Amid the storm by AhmedShaabanElelimi http://ift.tt/1AVaaYf

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This is the rare species Snailus Catus, which is a breed of cats so tiny that they must live like snails in order to survive. However, since they are not genetically predisposed to know that they need a shell, they must rely on humans to give them the proper shelter and support they need to survive.

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