Englishman River Falls Painting, watercolour paper mounted on wood cradle, 18” x 24″. The Process. The original unfinished painting was acrylic on large piece of watercolour paper. The big problem was how to frame it, especially if I’m thinking of … Continue reading Englishman River Falls Paintings, Take 2
One of my flint paintings that I’m working on for my upcoming show. The rock that I’m calling ‘Snowy Mountain’ Flint is black flint in a coarse grain chalk matrix with ochre stains in the chalk. I found this beauty … Continue reading Inspired by my ‘Snowy Mountain’ Flint
20 or 30 years ago I did a large (4′ x 8′) experimental art piece for an art class. It was cut and folded out of Arches watercolour paper with additions of rusted wire and found metal. For our class … Continue reading Reworking an Older Experimental Painting: Part 1
I was travelling in the Sinai Desert in early 1979. At the time the Sinai belonged to Israel and they had just signed a peace accord to hand it back to Egypt over the next two years. Earlier they had … Continue reading Paintings of Nuweiba, Where the Sand Dunes Lead into the Waters of the Red Sea
Examples of ‘fragile’ papers include tissue, rice paper and toilet paper/kleenex. Tissue Paper Relatively delicate papers tear easily when soaked in acrylic medium. To prevent this, a thicker acrylic gel is applied to the surface of the painting, the delicate tissue paper … Continue reading Adding More Texture to Mixed-Media Paintings with Tissue and Other ‘Fragile’ Papers
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
My Indian Holyman Painting: Dispelling Fear and Offering Benediction. June 13, 2011. I haven’t painted for 11 years and now it’s hard to get it going again! Everything that I have been doing in my painting class is centered and … Continue reading Mixed Media Struggle 2: How Do I Stop Centering Everything?
I see that I’ve gotten spoiled by computers. Now I am working on a ‘real’ painting, and I find myself frantically wondering, ‘Where’s the undo button?’ In my Mixed Media class my first image transfer didn’t exactly go as planned. … Continue reading Mixed Media Painting Class: Creating Art Without an Undo Button
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 … Continue reading 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 image transfers from the first couple of mixed-media painting classes that I took in 2011, and then again in … Continue reading My Mixed-Media Class 1: All About Image Transfers
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