Drawing day 2008

On june 7 it's Drawing Day.
Drawing Day is a worldwide drawing event encouraging everyone to drop everything and draw for the sake of art. The internet is an open canvas. Help create 1 million drawings online this day and boost online art communities.
I shall join in and post something on Flickr. If you intend to draw something leave me a comment and I'll post links to my favorite Drawing Day art on this blog.

Color wheel masking

James Gurney has a fascinating article about choosing a color schemes on his blog. He uses a color wheel and a mask to select limited color palettes. He then goes on to try out various mask shapes to get different moods. This is a great idea! I don't know if he invented this but I've never come across it before and I can't wait to try this out on my latest batch of work.
You can download a digital color wheel PDF file here from Tobey Sanford's site.

The secret of glowing watercolors

This article on watercolour is fascinating. It goes into a lot of detail about the physics of paint and the way it interacts with paper, some of this is a bit hard to understand but I really learnt alot from it. The whole website is very informative and really worth exploring if you use watercolours.