Pink Sky Blue: Moleskine Watercolor Notebook Pages

The image above is a page from my pocket size Moleskine Reporter Watercolor notebook - a painting I named "Pink Sky Blue" that I made for a friend's birthday.  I made the painting using a great new set of watercolor pencils that I got for my birthday, made by Derwent, called Graphitint.  The cores of these watercolor colored pencils are a combination of graphite and pigment.  The result of this combination is a nice moody color range that I love working with - you can use these pencils dry for a graphite effect with just a hint of color to it, or add water with a brush to bring out more of the color as I did in this painting.  The pencils have a nice rich pigmentation when used with water, and a thick creamy consistency.  They are a real pleasure to work with, and combine well with my usual Prismacolor watercolor pencils, offsetting that brighter color range.  I removed the page from the watercolor notebook when I was finished, and trimmed the corners on the perforated edge to match the others.

The title of the painting is taken from the title of my friend's music CD that was released in 2004.  Hope and I have been friends for over 20 years, and this CD is a culmination of many years she has spent working at songwriting and music.  I don't think you truly know someone until you have heard them sing, and I was really pleased that Pink Sky Blue gave me an opportunity to get to know another side of my friend through her music. Happy Birthday Hope!

You can hear some clips from Hope Alane's Pink Sky Blue CD HERE, and read more about it HERE. 

Pink Sky Blue is available on iTunes HERE (you may need to pre-launch iTunes to access link).

Speaking of birthdays - The NWD blog is a year old and counting.  I missed the actual day - July 25th - completely.  So it is a happy belated birthday to the blog - I trust it won't feel too overlooked!

Comments

[Chris Meisenzahl]

Very nice work.

[Ninth Wave Designs]

Thanks Chris!

[Alia]

Interesting. Hmmm. I'm not sure if I'd like the muted palete or not. I'll certainly look for them when I trudge back to the art supply store -- my bag was lost by the airline on my mini-vacation to Chicago. What I miss the most (now that I'm back in the same state as my clean clothes and toothbrush) is the 30ish Pitt Artist Pens, the brush-tip kind. New rule: I don't care what you say about liquids, TSA, you will pry my art supplies from my cold, dead hands!!!!

At least I'm getting some amusing drawings out of my speculations as to what actually happened to my bag. It may turn into a whole show.