Art Techniques

Techniques to Jumpstart Creativity.

COVID left me listless and uninspired. I finally set up an area to do watercolours and just started painting. My first attempt was cringe-worthy but I kept going and am now almost back into it.

• Purple Calla Lilies: My First COVID Effort
• Yellow Calla Lilies: Another Attempt
• Adding Watercolour to a Sketch of a Screw Pine
• Flame Tulip / Fire Dancer
• Working from Photos of Flag Irises

One-a-Day Projects.

After 11 years of health issues, I was finally ready to start painting again so I began with a one-a-day creative project

• Trying to Jumpstart my Creativity – Week 1
• Trying to Jumpstart my Creativity – Week 2
• Trying to Jumpstart my Creativity – Week 3

Techniques in Mixed Media.

• Mixed Media Class 1: All About Transferring Images
  • My first mixed media class – selecting images suitable for transfer
  • I am frantically wondering, “Where’s the undo button?”
  • Mistakes and more mistakes (using my scribbles painting as an example)
  • How to do an image transfer, method # 1
  • How to do an image transfer, method # 2
  • Working with image transfers two years later
    

• Mixed Media Class 2: Using Spackling to Create Textures (Plus a Few Struggles)
  • Basic acrylic/spackling mix and pressed textures
  • Additions to spackling to create even more texture
  • Glazing over the plaster/spackling textures
  • Dry-brushing to bring but texture in mixed-media paintings
  • 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
• Mixed Media Class 3: More Additions for your Paintings
  • Adding texture with tissue paper and other ‘fragile’ papers.
  • Adding texture with Corrugated Cardboard, a ‘heavy’ paper
  • Real weeds applied to an acrylic painting