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The Eco-Conscious Studio: Tiny 2” x 3.5” Acrylic Seascape

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“Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known..” ~ Carl Sagan 

I have become more conscious of what I throw into the garbage and look for opportunities to repurpose found items when creating art. So, when cleaning out some office papers recently, and finding a bunch of business cards mounted on magnetic backing, plus having recently re-read The Big Book of Tiny Art by Karen Libecap, my art material hoarder brain said “hey, these would be cool for miniature paintings”. Two coats of gesso and a limited palette of acrylic tube paints and this little 2”x 3.5” seascape popped off my brush.


BELOW: When finishing a piece, I generally use up any paint left on my palette to make a number of textured washes that I use as bases to start new paintings, or for collagés. Some I scan and import into digital drawing apps to use as a starting point for digital works. Below are a couple quick texture sheets made from palette left overs of this tiny painting.This is just one small way of limiting the waste that goes into landfill.

Red Apple BG Wash
Blue Cloidscape Texture

Artwork Copyright Patricia White 2023.

Angry Sky: Splashing Around with W&N, February 28, 2023

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“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” ~ Pablo Picasso

This is a quick watercolour sketch of a seascape, painted with a small travel set of Cotman Winsor & Newton watercolour half cakes. Testing a new watercolour paper to see how the paint flows, absorption, etc. I found the 90 lb. cold press stock too thin to stand up to the reasonably light wet-in-wet application in the sky area but handled the flowing liner brush strokes on slightly damp paper on the bottom half of the painting quite well. The paper was quite absorbent, grabbing the paint in some areas before edges could be softened.


These quick watercolour sketches, using a familiar subject I paint regularly, help me concentrate on the materials rather than the subject. I find that doing quick smaller sketches helps embed a sort of painting ‘muscle memory’ that gets easier the more often we ‘exercise’ it. While the travel set is great for tucking in your pocket for small on-the-road sketches, I still prefer using tube paint in studio.

Artwork Copyright Patricia White 2023

Cloudscape: February 13, 2023

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Cloudscape February 13, 2023

“When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.” ~ Antonio Porchia


DAILY PAINTING: Today it’s a quick cloudscape, this time with a bright colour space that brings an aqua-green into the mix.

Really enjoy these quick sketches that encompass movement, stretching the boundaries of possibility, taking my imagination to more expansive places.

Artwork Copyright Patricia White 2023.


Coloured Pencil Landscape Sketch January 25, 2023

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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
~ Marcel Proust, French Novelist

DAILY PAINTING is an effort to keep my art-making skills active, develop new techniques and generally just keep discovering new ways to document the world I see and imagine. This quick sketch drawn with coloured pencils and white charcoal, is an imagined vista. I scored the paper with a small ball-headed stylus before putting pencil to paper so those areas would remain white when the pencil was drawn across the indentations. Think I’ll use a larger stylus the next time to make those lines more prominent.

Artwork Copyright Patricia White 2023.

October 12, 2021 Daily Practice

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“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” ~Pablo Picasso

AUTUMN’S COMING WIP

I’ve been in file-backup-hell all week. Changing web providers and spent hours this week cleaning up a slew of email accounts. Wreaking havoc with my hand and arm pain so scribbled on my iPad today.

Not wild about it as a whole but there are parts that I had fun exploring. was trying for a bright coloured autumn’ish’ landscape with a large bank of clouds dominating the piece.

It feels unfinished but the DAILY DRAWING mantra is to just get something down on paper or tablet :

”DO NOT OBSESS”.

Artwork Copyright Patricia White 2021.