Last week I spent almost every day watching the Taster sessions for Kaleidoscope 2023. Other than in previous years, this time I actually did some of the lessons right away while watching the videos. I was mainly interested in the watercolor sessions and those were the ones I did with the exception of the owl class that was taught in acrylics and colored pencils, but I did in watercolor anyway.
This was also the first time that I didn't use the traceable images the artitsts provided, but tried drawing everything myself. Sometimes that didn't turn out that well since I don't have drawing skills.
First up is Kim Dellow's lesson - this is the class where the artist used acrylics and I used watercolor instead. The other medium used is colored pencils which don't work that well on cold pressed watercolor paper.
Next up are two sessions by Tamara Laporte, the host and creator of Kaleidoscope. The peacock was quite some work, and I decided to make the background much paler than in Tam's example.
The colorful poppies were the first of the taster sessions, also by Tam. I loved this one, even though some of my poppies look a bit wonky. This one was a lot of fun.
My favorite class was the session by Australian artist Toni Burt who I find very inspiring. This time we did a painting with a little bird which, as far as I can tell, was a wren. In my painting it doesn't look like a wren except perhaps for the tail; otherwise it's on the well-fed side, but who cares? Toni used black ink for the outline of the bird which I didn't have, so I used charcoal which didn't quite react with water the way ink would do. No matter, I love this small painting.
Since this is a T Tuesday post I need a drink, otherwise Bleubeard and Elizabeth will kick me off! Yesterday was a beautiful warm and sunny day, so different from all the June Gloom we had until then. That's the kind of weather when I like to drink a glass of rosé in the evening. The sunflowers were a gift from friends who came for dinner on Saturday.
