Monthly Archives: February 2009
No Painting (Can You/I believe it)
The last few days, I have been fighting a massive cold, maybe even pneumonia, and I haven’t felt like painting. But you may be wondering what some of the pieces that are in my header on this blog look like … Continue reading
Progress on Flowers on Yupo
On January 26, I posted this painting after a little work on it, and realized it needed some more. Here’s that “some more” Now I’ll put it away for a couple months and re-evaluate it. Did learn a bit about … Continue reading
Another Texture maker
We save all our eggshells and put them in our compost barrel, and a couple days ago Barb had ground up a whole batch for me to take out and put in the barrel. I looked at it and the … Continue reading
Another Test Piece with new medium
When I tested out that new medium, I took a sheet of Yupo and cut it in quarters. This is another one of the quarters, I applied the medium first and then spray applied the top blue section, and floated … Continue reading
Retake of image of last post
Just to show the difference between a hand attempt at white balance and the real thing, here’s an image taken under daylight conditions. Gee, temp up to 40 today, before the plunge tonight. This is true to the actual colors. … Continue reading
New Medium for Inks
In the past couple weeks I’ve been working on using a new medium for inks. This is one of the pieces. The colors are not as good as I’d like, but I have to photograph these things in the house … Continue reading
Of Course
Gee, the piece that I’m working on and was going to show a picture of isn’t finished yet–actually it’s changed completely after I decided I didn’t like it t his morning, and painted over the whole thing except one little … Continue reading
Productive Workshop
This is another painting that I finished at the workshop this past weekend. It’s a portrait of “Cinnabun” A house pet who is a doll. I also obtained a piece of Sintra in 6 mm whidth. It’s a PVC board … Continue reading
Holy Macaw, That’s Not Very Abstract
This weekend was a time to stretch my mind and muscles (fine motor skills) at a workshop with the well known wildlife artist, Rod Lawrence working on fur and feathers. Every once in a while it’s a good idea to … Continue reading
Good painting today
Was looking at a photograph I took yesterday of this painting and found it was distorted and I liked it, but the painting wasn’t that way. So, today I distorted it slightly–making it look like the top panel in the … Continue reading