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'Snowy Mountain' Flint Painting

My ‘Precious Stones’ Exhibit at Britannia Art Gallery

July 2, 2019July 30, 2019 Albatz Travel Adventures

Precious Stones  A Japanese saying goes, ‘The pebble in the brook secretly believes itself to be a precious stone’.  These paintings are portraits of pebbles, stones and rocks, all of them precious things. Where: Britannia Art Gallery (in the Library), … Continue reading My ‘Precious Stones’ Exhibit at Britannia Art Gallery

Jewelry1 Comment
bracelet of crudely-carved rhodonite beads

Rhodonite, a Pink Semi-Precious Stone

December 19, 2017December 21, 2017 Albatz Travel Adventures

Rhodonite, with its distinctive rose pink colour, is often veined in olive green or black. Pink rhodonite, leopard jasper, rutilated quartz, ebony & brass necklace.Detail of heavily veined rhodonite, brass, ebony with inlaid brass, and rutilated quartz. Detailed of a carved rhodonite rose … Continue reading Rhodonite, a Pink Semi-Precious Stone

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Strands of dark green bloodstone with light green aventurine and gold Chine cloisonné beads

Bloodstone, a Dark Green Semi-Precious Stone with Red Flecks

March 24, 2017March 29, 2017 Albatz Travel Adventures

Bloodstone is an opaque chalcedony that is usually a very dark green, and distinguished by its flecks of red said to be the blood of Jesus when he was nailed to the cross. (Chalcedony is a microcrystalline quartz with a hardness of 6.5 to … Continue reading Bloodstone, a Dark Green Semi-Precious Stone with Red Flecks

A Photo a Week Challenge, Photo Apps2 Comments
Galley Head Stone Ruins in Pixlromatic

It All Depends On What You Want: Ireland

March 17, 2017May 11, 2017 Albatz Travel Adventures

In honour of St Patrick’s Day I’ve been up to some shenanigans with photo apps and the Irish landscape. Stone wall of castle ruins at Galley Head in Ireland painted in the photo app Psykopaint.I then ran it though Stackables, another … Continue reading It All Depends On What You Want: Ireland

Artworks, Mixed Media, Painting2 Comments
image transfer surrounded by spackle filled with pebbles and small stones

Additions to spackle to add even more texture to your painting

July 8, 2016May 14, 2018 Albatz Travel Adventures

June 9, 2011: The next demo in my mixed-media class was to create even more texture to the spackle mix with the addition of sand, pebbles, grit or other similar things. The trick is to mix the plaster, acrylic medium and … Continue reading Additions to spackle to add even more texture to your painting

Abstracts, Weekly Photo Challenge2 Comments
Lichen Texture Abstract

Weekly Photo Challenge: Lichen Abstracts

April 22, 2016 Albatz Travel Adventures

Lichen makes for interesting abstracts, usually in circular patterns of orange, yellow, green, white, black or grey. Orange and white circular patterns on a cemetery wall  in France. Grey, green and yellow lichen texture a wall in Bruge, Belgium. A nearby … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Lichen Abstracts

Photo Apps, Photo Challenges, Photoshop4 Comments
Stone arches at the restored monastery on the Sacred Shore in northern Spain">

One Four Challenge December Review 2

December 14, 2015August 3, 2021 Albatz Travel Adventures

From now on this December Review is about how I plan to carry on even though the One Four Challenge is taking a break. Using a series of photos to illustrate a story about a place or event.  I started out with the idea that … Continue reading One Four Challenge December Review 2

Painting, Photography, Rocks, Stones & Pebbles, Sketches2 Comments
sketch of orangey stones

Expanding on My Studies of Rocks

May 25, 2014July 8, 2017 Albatz Travel Adventures

May 13, 2011: part of my one-a-day creative project Today I expanded on my studies of rocks. I was envisioning these rocks painted in an arrangement of squares, each square about 10”x 10”, and each painting exploring a different texture/media; … Continue reading Expanding on My Studies of Rocks

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