Sketch book | Sandi Hester

February 23, 2019

The Blog Is Moving

Hey guys, I have moved the blog! I’m hoping to make it official but I want to hear from you guys before I do that. Everything that’s on this WordPress blog will stay here – I have too much history here to erase it but my website has a much easier platform for making posts and I like having everything all in one place.

SOOOOOO, here’s where I need your help – would you go visit my new blog – you can visit it by clicking here and sign up so you get notified when I post a new blog. Would you also leave me a comment on this blog post to let me know if it was an easy process to sign up on my new blog – that’s really important to me that it’s an easy process for you guys because you have been so faithful to me on this blog!!!!

I have two new posts on my NEW BLOG that you haven’t seen – one is an introduction from me (pics from my studio, etc) and one is a NEW VIDEO! So hopefully that will be incentive for you to go check it out. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give me some feedback and let me know what you think! I value your opinion! Sandi Hester, plein air sketching

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February 3, 2019

Travel Sketchbook Flip

New video up on my Youtube channel – make sure to go and subscribe so you don’t miss any videos!

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February 1, 2019

VIDEO! Gouache Sketching

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January 16, 2019

Gouache Supplies

Here are my gouache sketching supplies:

Dirty Palette. Just a vintage metal pan thing I found at an antique shop – I love it! And yes I leave it dirty for the most part – the old mixes are invaluable to me!
Sketchbook. This is a Derwent black page sketchbook – I love black pages to paint on – the colors really pop!
Gouache paints. Holbein. Colors: White, Lemon Yellow, Primary Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Permanent Magenta, Flame Red, Primary Cyan, Ultramarine Light, Burnt Umber, Primary Black. (brown and blacks mixed with yellow make amazing greens!)
Water bottle – this is one of those light mist ones – I LOVE it!
Viva paper towels – no other will do
Water and water container
Any paint brushes you like to use. These are Winsor & Newton Series 150, Silver Ruby Satin 2500S Round, Daniel Smith Pure Squirrel 1.

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January 12, 2019

Some Sketching (video)

Check out my YouTube video (lots more videos on my channel – go subscribe so you don’t miss anything!)

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December 10, 2018

VIDEO! Sketchbook Ideas

I did a video on a sketchbook I did for a friend as a gift for Christmas – check it out to get some good ideas for a sketchbook, to see a little bit of what is in this sketchbook and to see my totally messy studio (it’s that time of year that the studio stays looking like it exploded). Hope you enjoy it and expect to see more videos coming – I plan to do more videos in the upcoming year and hope it will be a more common feature on my blog, youtube channel, and instagram (@sandigrady1). Come find me on those other avenues and subscribe to get updates of new things.

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April 27, 2018

Portrait

Sandi Hester, oil

Oil painting from previous sketch.

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April 25, 2018

Self Portraits

Sandi Hester, self portrait

Sandi Hester, oil, self portrait

Here are a couple of self portraits. All through history artists have used themselves as subjects to paint or draw – sometimes to portray or “say” something about themselves, but I think often it’s just because it’s a free and available model – I know that’s the case for me. In the past I’ve dressed-up in something I’d like to paint and had Grady take pictures of me around the yard or sitting at a table reading or drinking tea – just so I would have a figure to paint under the lighting I liked. So, it has nothing to do with being interested in self – but having an available subject :)! Hope you enjoy these! The first one is a sketch I did in less than 5 minutes today!

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April 11, 2018

Oil Pastel Sketches

Sandi Hester, oil pastel

REALLY enjoying these oil pastels to sketch with!

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March 29, 2018

Little Artists in My Studio

Hannah and Macy are two of my nieces and we have done many art lessons over the years and they continue to amaze me. Today Hannah (oldest) had her first oil painting lesson and Macy worked in watercolor and gouache. We started the day off by going to a local nursery to pick out flowers for our still life (they found out that that’s a hard decision to make!). We covered a ton today – value, color, composition, color mixing, texture, and lots more. They killed it! We were ALL exhausted! Hannah kept taking breaks and saying she needed to stretch 🙂 – that’s me all day long (stretching and working out sore muscles from standing and painting – you didn’t know it was so taxing did you?!).

Hannah’s oil

Macy’s watercolor

Here’s a quick video of them in action – there was serious concentration going on in this studio today – no playing around – they were serious artists today. We did take Cooper (my dog) breaks though – always nice to have a studio dog to love on when you need to take a break from painting!

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