Articles relating to the use of acrylic paint or mixed watermedia, such as watercolor plus acrylic. Or watercolor pencil, acrylic, watercolor; etc.
New Nova Paper! Greetings! I’d like to thank Stillman & Birn for sending me a sample pack of their new Nova Series Toned Paper for Multi Media. Gift Via Stillman & Birn’s Facebook Page. To explain, I was one of 100 artists who won a sample-pack give away on Stillman & Birn’s Facebook page. […]
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Still Life For Suzanne. Greetings! I’d like to share with you my latest still life painting: “Coffee Cup With Rabbit Netsuke”. The setup is a sort of homage to my sister Suzanne. She likes rabbits and she gave me the coffee cup. Yellow and red are her favorite colors. I don’t know about other
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Artist Vision: How To See. Greetings! I’d like to share with you two of my latests pieces in my “Three Minute Egg Series”. Furthermore, I’d like to talk about how I come up with my artistic vision for a series, using my current paintings as an example. The Good Question. A friend and collector of
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Potato Salad Friday – With Egg Hi and Good Friday To You! I was making a potato salad this morning, with hard-boiled egg, and was thinking about the paintings I’ve been doing lately with eggs and egg cups. What is so special about eggs? I don’t really like eating just plain old eggs, though I
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Lessons Learned From Gabriel Mark Lipper’s Deconstructing Class. For most of February and March of this year, I have participated in art instructor Gabriel Mark Lipper’s “Deconstructing a Painting” Class. Hmmm, I don’t recall if he actually had a title for the course. In any case, seems to me that we called it the deconstructing
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Motivation – That Which Keeps Me Working. Hi! I have been wondering how personal motivation contributes to overcoming artist block. Put another way, I would like to examine what motivates me and keeps me plugging away at my art. By looking at what motivates me, both positive and not so positive, I might learn something about making art
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Introducing Circular Conversations Hi! I’d like to introduce one of my recent paintings titled “Circular Conversations”. It was one of the last pieces I completed in 2015. Fun with Acrylic Paint This is unusual in that it is a paintings of figures done in acrylic. I have done most of my figures in watercolor. I
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About the Painting Its about the greens in a young forest. I painted this piece in 2005; its one of my favorites. It was one of my early experiments with abstraction and mixed watermedia. I used traditional watercolor paint and acrylic.
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Challenge Welcome to Day Four of the 3-paintings-per-day-for-five-day (3-4-5) FB challenge! Today I'm featuring my "Torsten on Bass" series, and for a blog bonus, I'm adding a fourth piece. (Thank you Myrna Wacknov for inviting me to participate in the challenge).
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