Art Antics and Inktense Pencils
As many of you know, I like to travel and I have been known to move around a lot. Because of this, I have also tried to come up with ways to take materials with me and to create portable studios in various locations. Recently, I talked about this new product from Derwent called Inktense. [...]
Paper Presentation
It is interesting that one of the reasons I prefer to work on deep, stretched canvas is because I do not want to have to deal with presentation once the work is completed. Now, how is that for laziness? My woven pieces are a case in point. If you read this blog, you know I [...]
Is there a big change?
I am going to share a bit more of what I have done with the PearlEx powder today, then will move on tomorrow to something else. Here is what happened on some archival tissue paper I used under the rice paper I was working on. I often fold a sheet of this tissue to place [...]
Photographs for You….
Today, I want to play catch up with images for you. It really gets to me when I do not have photographs to show you, so hear are a few to get things going on this blog again. Believe me, this is just blabbering…. This is a panel I painted with some of Golden’s Micaceous [...]
Testing…and Opinion
This weekend was one of painting and one of testing. If you remember last week I did a post showing a small painting on the Ampersand Aquabord. This particular product works very well. I also mentioned in the comments that Golden has a product known as Absorbent Ground which I had not tried, but owned [...]
Painting on Raw Canvas
This is something I did on a whim a little while back. I had actually forgotten about it until my daughter asked if she might have it for her little cottage at school. I used acrylics to paint on raw, unstretched cotton canvas. The photo below shows it tacked to the wall of her cottage. [...]
Oil Sticks and Other Toys!
Today I wanted to share with you one of the products I sometimes use in mixed media pieces. I used them a lot in my Horizon Series (check out Horizons 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 for examples) and with some of my earlier works. Recently I have not picked them up, but I thought [...]