Faith Evans-Sills (faithevanssills.com) session was entitled “Watercolor Warm-Ups: Gathering Color and Pattern Inspiration”
Faith creates her own reference sheets or “cheat sheets” by painting color swatches inspired by photos or her surroundings. She picks up patterns in the same way. The interactions on the page sometimes reveal happy accidents or wonderful combinations that she uses later.
I used a framed photo I took at sunrise on Haleakala in Maui in 2018 as my inspiration.
I was being a little more representational than I was supposed to be, but it made me happy.
The materials I used:
Nan Mellem's Portfolio 