Craft Yeti is the mascot for the Green With Indie craft show held every March at Webster University here in Saint Louis. When we started talking about Craft Monster
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and the different characters we’d like to include she was of course
part of the family. The hardest part of her was taking someone else’s
design and converting it to a style consistent with the other characters
we are using while remaining true to the original. Oh yeah, and all the
white.
Craft Yeti was a really fun challenge. On these recent paintings I’ve
been mixing colors before painting them, which is a departure from how I
usually work by layering pure colors on the paper and allowing their
transparency to blend them. Also I’ve been experimenting more with using
colored pencil to finish off the paintings. I really like how the
pencils deepen the watercolor, and allow for quite a lot of control
while adding additional texture.