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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 14, 2019

NEW YouTube Video! 2019 Studio Update

Make sure to subscribe and like the video and leave me your questions for the question and answer time in the upcoming videos!

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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 31, 2018

Window Christmas Decorating

Quick little video of me decorating for Christmas. Hope you all had a great one! More videos to come in the new year so make sure to follow and subscribe. Instagram (@sandigrady1) and my youtube channel are where you will likely see videos first so make sure to subscribe in those places to get update first. See you in the new year!

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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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August 7, 2018

New from the Old

I feel like I haven’t had much time in the studio in months and I’m locking myself in the studio this week! I wanted to give myself some exercises instead of just jumping into a painting – I need some warming up. So I’m doing value studies and decided to take some of my old paintings and rework them. I played around with some old paintings on my editing program and put filters on some of them – changing not only the colors but changing the values also and I’m painting from those filtered pictures of old paintings (does that make sense???!!). Here’s the first one I did below: 1st pic is my new painting, 2nd pic is the filtered picture I painted from, and the last pic is of my old original painting. I’m going to do this with some more paintings too and if they turn out I will share them with you.