Monthly Archives: July 2009
Another Workshop Inspired Revision
This painting started out as a failed experiment around Halloween last year. Then was gessoed over and just had too much texture and fine detail. So, I had also tried a couple different border edges (which I never documented). Then … Continue reading
My Head is Swimming
Gee, after two, almost back-to-back workshops, it’s great to be home and trying to sort things out. I did manage to take a bunch of pictures of paintings in progress, etc this afternoon. The last workshop with Helga Flower at … Continue reading
New Experiment
At each of my workshops, I like to try out something that I’ve never done before. Serves two purposes, one, I get a chance to try something new that I’ve been wanting to do, and also the workshoppers get a … Continue reading
Another Poured Acrylic
Here’s another poured acrylic (pure undiluted fluid Golden acrylics) that I recently did. I think I’m going to call it “Street Dancers,” but also I think I’m going to crop off the top quarter of the painting. It doesn’t seem … Continue reading
Further Texture Expt
A few days ago I showed a piece of paper with black texture painting from a quilt batting. Got an idea for painting over the texture from a magazine picture I saw. Here’s the result. Here’s showing the detail in … Continue reading