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Art 100: Wine Country Landscape

Sketching with ink and watercolor

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Amy Stewart
Sep 12, 2025
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Maybe it’s fitting that the 100th art newsletter was filmed on my birthday! I got to spend a lovely afternoon out in the Oregon wine country sketching all day, which is about the best birthday present I could imagine.

Something must’ve happened to the very last segment of video, because this ends before I do the final bit of color. But it’s enough for you to see the process generally.

For this one, I used:

Pilot parallel pen with DeAtrementis Document Orange ink, to which I added a tiny bit of Document Dark Red and also Sepia Brown. I used an Ink Miser to make my mixture. (Is this something you all are interested in? We can get into it in more detail sometime.)

This landscape watercolor palette

An Etchr A4 (8x10) hot press sketchbook

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