Painting rainbows with watercolour, acrylics, and collage, and other art and artist inspiration.

In this video, I pull a calendar page from my 2024 Artist Almanac calendar, a fodder collage resource. I show you some rainbows in my art journal and we paint our own version on 98 lb watercolour paper. Once the watercolour has dried, I show how I like to add acrylic paint and collage as clouds, and other ways to finish them. I read a page from my book "How to Be More Tree", and chat about how I like to define success. At the end of the video, I flip through Angie Lewin's book, "Plants and Places" and talk about a few pages and how they inspire me.


Book mentions:

"Plants and Places", by Angie Lewin
(inspired to find this book after watching Helen Wells youtube video).

"How to Be More Tree" Illustrated by Annie Davidson

Oracle deck:

Allison Dawrant 71 card art deck:
"Art Poetry" for insights and inspiration (oracle deck)
https://www.allisondawrant.com/shop

The 2024 Artist Almanac collage fodder calendar:
(Search this group on Facebook to learn more).

Watercolour plastic palette from "Homesense", Canada ("Mont Marte" brand)

Watercolour paper:

My art journal is by Speedball, called the Handbook journal .

I use Canson XL Mixed Media 140lb , 9x12" or 11x 14" paper in a coiled book.

Available at Michael's Canada

Watercolour :

Mozart, Komorebi (Japanese palette purchased through Amazon Canada).

Ocean paper "Around the World Palette", theoceanpaper.com

Stoneground Paint Co , watercolour and gouache (thestonegroundpaintco.com)

I use watersoluble pencil crayons including Stabilo "woody's" , Faber Castell Supracolour Soft pencils and also Gelatos.

Paintbrush
Number 12 round by Princeton