Mixed-Media Painting Class 2: Using Spackle to Create Textures (Plus a Few Struggles)

These posts were all put up on my ‘travel’ blog before I decided to split my blog into two. They incorporate the lessons learned about using a spackle*/acrylic mix to create textures from my second mixed-media painting class. (*also called spackling)

• Pressing objects into spackle (or spackle into stencils) to create textures.
  

• Additions to spackle to create even more texture on your painting.

• Glazing over the spackle texture

• Mixed media painting first assignment: ‘And all I could do was remember’.

• Mixed Media Struggle 1: Using Photoshop to second guess myself on a problem painting

• Mixed Media Struggle 2: How Do I Stop Centering Everything?

• Mixed Media Struggle 3: Gesso is My New Undo Button

• Dry-Brushing to Bring Out Texture in a Mixed-Media Paintings

Mixed-Media Class No 1: All About Image Transfers