Monthly Archives: March 2009
What to do with Failed Paintings
Sometimes you just can’t seem to correct an area on a painting. What to do with it–throw it in the wastbasket? Heavens no! Cover it with Gesso? Well, that’s one avenue to recovery. But another method, especially for paintings that … Continue reading
Undiluted Fluid Acrylic paintings
Here’s the followup of yesterday’s post. I worked on the first one (Fire & Ice) that I posted last night. The second one below, is the second one thata I didn’t have a good image of. It has a lot … Continue reading
New Technique for Acrylic Pourings
After seeing the results of using diluted oils for pouring paintings, I decided to adapt this to using acrylics. This one is made with string gel and fluid acrylics and a little water. I have another that I’ll post tomorrow … Continue reading
Another Play Piece
This piece is a pour ink on Yupo–started probably a couple years ago, and was in my stack And, when I looked at it I decided it didn’t need much revision to make it look pretty neat. There were some … Continue reading
I Won’t give up
My stack of partially completed or started paintings has reached epidemic proportions, but I won’t throw any paper away. I just keep trying to make something out of various paintings. Sometimes I re-start them 3 or 4 times before I … Continue reading
Other Painting Possibilities
We often think painting is done with watercolors, acrylics, oils, pastels or colored pencils or a combination of any or all of the above. Well, there are other paints out there that work a little differently, but can be used … Continue reading
Split Personality
Here’s the one that I’ve been working on a little bit, every day for that last few days. I like it and I think the design is pretty good, so I’m thinking of it being one of my entries in … Continue reading
Followup on Eggshells
I think the last time I showed this piece was on the 22nd of February. Did a few more touches to it, and it looks more balanced. Guess I’ll put it away for a while. Here’s the new version of … Continue reading
Some More Eggshells
This is a piece I started about 7 months ago and I just keep adding things to it. Recently looked at it and decided it needed some cover up of a blah area near the bottom, as well as shortening … Continue reading
Another Quickie Fix
A nationally known quilt artist was visiting yesterday and saw this painting hanging in back of a couple others. (I’ve learned that when I finish pouring an acrylic ink on Yupo to hang it up for a week or more … Continue reading