I was reading Drawing from Within by Nick Meglin this week and one of the chapters was really thought provoking. Mr. Meglin talked about how so many of his students purchased tools used by great painters as if it would make them better artists. He pointed out that the great tennis stars could outplay us […]
As I create background pages and experiment with different colors and techniques, I end up with a stack of backgrounds that are just plain ugly. However, I don’t throw them away. This is because you can almost always save an ugly background with one of two things - gesso or walnut ink. This mixed media […]
I think this one is now officially done. I decided to add a few elements after I thought it was done the first time. I was going to put it on Etsy, but I’m too attached. I think I will keep it. Perhaps it is the start of a new series - I’m up to […]
I have been playing around with some of my photos lately. This little sparrow is so cute and personable that I must have gotten 50 shots of him the other day! When I looked at them, though, they were lacking oomph. (Is that a word?) I decided to use some of them in mixed media […]
So, I finally decided (after 4 years) to get back to actually painting my mixed media pieces. I’ve lost all my skills, so it isn’t perfect. However, the worst thing was that I couldn’t get the poor girl’s eye to look decent. I looked at some other artists’ sites and noticed a lot of girls […]
I lay down newspaper on my art table before I do any painting to protect the surface. Since I am not the neatest person with a brush, I tend to get a lot of paint on the newspaper. Rather than throw it away, I recycle it into an art background. Newspaper is just a bit […]
This was my first try at using beeswax for collage. It was fun, but much harder than it looks. I began by painting a background and stamping the fleur de lis stamp all over it. I cut it in thirds because I was working on backgrounds for the skinny book swap at Altered Abbey. (As […]
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