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Frog portrait. This frog is pretty tame and lives in a dear friend’s pond. He was however very well hidden and inconveniently located for portrait painting—I had to twist backwards to see him and then move forwards to paint. He appeared to be enjoying his portrait session, so hopefully next time with fair warning he will choose a slightly more convenient spot for the artist to sit without craning her neck and twisting her back ;) I’ve always loved frogs, but today saw how truly beautiful they are, especially in their colors. Their eyes are incredible and I love the circles that sit to the side of them.

If you really know me then you really know how much I love fire towers. Too sunny and windy to smile for the camera! Becker Hollow Trail in the Catskills. Trail is a continuous, steep ascent with no break and 2,240 foot elevation gain. Worth it for the views but I will save my knees for awhile before I do that one again. On the way back I saw a young black bear cross the trail. I think I was going so quietly and slowly due to knee pain, he didn’t even notice me. I didn’t want him to start walking up the trail so eventually I let him know I was there by clacking my hiking poles together. He looked up for a moment and then wandered off... ❤️

The timing was right and I was able to invest in this incredibly beautiful set of handmade watercolors (made from mineral, earth, and lake pigments) right before I begin my third, most important book illustration. The book is set for an 18-month timeline so you won’t see any public posts on that for a looong time! . I usually paint with a more limited, basic palette of cool and warm primary colors, relying on my own mixing to create what I need. For example, I don’t have any green paint in my standard palette because green is a particularly difficult color to paint “out of the tube” with character and variation, the way it appears in nature. Green out of the tube is just ONE green out of many, whereas one shade of blue lends itself a bit more to feeling varied between the intensities of dark and light. When you mix your own greens, you can get a wider range of interesting colors between the yellows and the blues, light and darkness. . . But with this new palette, where I am relying more on the nature of the individual colors to speak for themselves, I have expanded my palette up to 30 pigments (compared to 12, including black and white). So now I am beginning to get to know the character and individual qualities of these colors, many of which hold incredible historical and artistic significance. I can already see how some like to be layered more than others. Some are more subtle or ephemeral in nature, asking time and patience to understand their way of expression. Others are more earthy and incarnated, stating boldly with a single stroke, “here I am.” A palette such as this asks for your reverence for each color, that each one has a different voice and each one comes out of a different time and place. Post CONTINUED in comments...

I came back home and was a second-time published illustrator. (The next 📖 will 🚫 have 🌈🌈, as much as I ❤️🌈🌈). Available for pre-order on Amazon. #waldorfillustration #waldorfeducation #waldorfchild #waldorfbooks #childrensbooks #childrenspicturebooks #storiesforchildren #isabelwyatt

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