Painting postcards is a convenient creative endeavor that can be easily accomplished in a short amount of time with minimal equipment for fun, relaxation, and to make quick visual notes while traveling. Added bonus, they can be mailed to friends and family if the results are pleasing enough.
Each painting kit fit on a letter size sheet of card stock, and included a blank Strathmore watercolor postcard, painting brush, and custom 6-color watercolor palette (made by scribbling the color swatches with aquarelle sticks: a set of primary hues, couple of secondaries, and yellow ochre). Guests that chose to paint their postcard at the gallery were also provided with a cup of water and a paper towel to rinse their brush clean between color changes.
Room set up for Media Day at the von Liebig Art Center (vLAC) held for representatives of the Media and Hospitality industry.
Poster showing sample watercolor kits and assorted color charts.
Set up at the Watson Gallery used for the Watercolor Postcard Painting icebreaker activity.
Sample watercolor postcards painted with the paper palettes and supplies used for the demonstration: #10 Habico Sable brush, medium Niji waterbrush, blank postcards and set of Faber Castell Albrecht Durer aquarelle sticks.
The vLAC's fearless Education Director: Nicole DuPont Strub.
The team of dedicated professionals that keeps the vLAC running smoothly.
It was quite nice to see several guests enjoying the watercolor postcard painting activity early in the morning. I had fun to making this short presentation to such a receptive audience. Too bad we do not have a large specialty art supplies store in town, for I really love helping people find the art supplies that would suit them best to nurture their creativity.
Hope that many will continue to embrace watercolor painting as they develop their artistic skills and explore their own creative paths. Suggested tools for compact kits for creating watercolor postcards anywhere on-the-go:- Medium or large waterbrushes efficiently combine the water reservoir with a functional easy-to-clean nylon brush (just squeeze and dab clean on any napkin or paper towel) nib eliminating the need to haul a separate heavy water container for rinsing brushes: Pentel and Niji.
- A nice set of watercolor crayons can do double duty as convenient watercolor pans and fun sketching tools: Caran D'Ache Neocolor II Artists' crayons.
- Lightweight portable blank postcard pads are available from several manufacturers: Canson, Strathmore, Cotman, Holbein.
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