March is the month of the Vancouver International Dance Festival. My favourite part is the life drawing sessions. This year was supposed to be the 20thanniversary season of the Festival, and run from March 6 to 28, 2020, offering 31 performances … Continue reading Life Drawing Session with ‘Spring’ Tumbling in Slow Motion
Our third class in Mixed-Media Painting was about more ways to add texture in your mixed-media paintings via papers, foil, fabrics, organic materials, non-organic materials and tar gel. This covered a huge amount of ground – many years later and … Continue reading Mixed Media Class 3: More Additions for your Paintings
I took a mixed-media painting course a few years ago but didn’t have time to follow it though. Now I’m taking it again, and finding that some things are easier the second time round, especially selecting images suitable for transfer. In my … Continue reading Mixed Media Painting Class – Selecting Images Suitable for Transfer, 2 years later
Where I have continued problems with image transfers in my Mixed Media Painting Class… • If you are using cheap canvas panels, paint the back with medium to stop the panel from warping, and the front with second layer of gesso. … Continue reading Mixed Media Painting Class: Mistakes and More Mistakes
Selecting images suitable for transfer. I took the Mixed Media & Built Surface class 2011 and again in the summer of 2013 in order to get back into painting. This was originally posted to my ‘Travel Blog’ but now that I … Continue reading Mixed Media Painting Class: Selecting Images Suitable for Transfer
