November 06th, 2013

Hello here is an interesting blog.  This is an example of playing with the Peerless water color paints as an under painting and the Kor I Noor colored pencils over top.  This painting is really more of an exercise to see what these two products can do together.  The effects are interesting and very flexible, the colors are vivid and dynamic. This is going to take me a bit of time to deal with learning to paint with these paints as I will have to MAKE my own water color paper.  Yup believe it or not I am having a hard time finding good and heavier than 100 lb paper here in Ecuador.  This is causing me a bit of delay in my learning.  This paper is what is called "Cartolina" and it is just a heavier drawing paper.  Yes good, really good quality drawing paper is very hard to find also.  I will have to make my own and then I can make sure it is also acid free.  I am thinking that the paper that I am using might not be and that is very sad for me but I have scanned and recorded it so I have not lost the designs, they are cyber recorded.  I have found several recipes to make water color paper based with wood fiber but as wood fiber is naturally acidic you MUST but in ant-acid in it to stabilize the paper.  
I was in this restaurant and the owner is trying to create vegitarian foods for lunches, they are quite good, especially the vegitarian chili nachos and of course the Capichino is nice also.  This restaurant is in Banos and is called the Healthy Garden Cookery.  He is really trying to put a good foot forward and create unique and interesting foods, this restaurant is attached to the Mercado in Banos and is really easy to find.  He was really proud of his new restaurant and really wanted to have a shot of his new restaurant.  So the last photo is of him, his restaurant and a great big smile.