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Category Archives: Painting

Dad's painting of Plato the horse calling him a smart ass

Author’s Note from my Dad’s Journal of Memories

May 21, 2018by Albatz Travel Adventures 3 Comments

My Dad’s note about his journal: Because I am not a very good typist or too good at English grammar I have chosen to heavily illustrate this book. As the saying […]

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BC, Denmark, Painting
The Yellow Mantel in Monet's House with Japanese Prints and Rustic Pottery

Monet’s House in Giverny

July 1, 2015by Albatz Travel Adventures 7 Comments

Claude Monet didn’t just paint his famous garden, he also spent time doing ‘portraits’ of his home in Giverny. Entering his house I was initially disappointed. There wasn’t a single Monet painting […]

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Art, France, Painting
gessoed wood panel with weed

Mixed Media Struggle 3: Gesso is my New Undo Button

October 11, 2013by Albatz Travel Adventures 1 Comment

THE COVER-UP My original idea for this painting was to somehow produce a piece of art that took on the characteristics of multiple posters stapled onto a wooden surface. But […]

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Art, Painting
Holyman in Photoshop

Mixed Media Struggle 2: How Do I Stop Centering Everything?

October 4, 2013by Albatz Travel Adventures 5 Comments

My Indian Holyman Painting: Dispelling Fear and Offering Benediction. June 13, 2011. I haven’t painted for 11 years and now it’s hard to get it going again! Everything that I […]

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Art, Painting, Photoshop
playing with my scribble painting in Photoshop

Mixed Media Struggle 1: Using Photoshop to Second Guess Myself on a Problem Painting

October 2, 2013by Albatz Travel Adventures 1 Comment

In my second class my ‘scribble’ painting had taken off in the wrong direction. My original plan was to feature a larger scribbled swoop on top of the scribble image […]

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Art, Painting, Photoshop
painting of jaguar and iguana in the Costa Rican jungle

Mixed media painting first assignment: ‘And all I could do was remember’

September 25, 2013by Albatz Travel Adventures 1 Comment

A blur of golden jaguar in the jungles of Costa Rica. The first assignment from my Mixed Media Painting classes was to do a painting inspired by the phrase, “And […]

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Art, Costa Rica, Painting
glazes on a sea-like surface

Glazing over the spackle texture on your mixed-media painting

September 17, 2013by Albatz Travel Adventures 1 Comment

Most of our second mixed media class was about creating textures with spackle, with the remainder being about glazing over the plaster/spackle textures. Here is the glazing process: First apply acrylic […]

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Art, Painting
image transfer of rocks and spackle with grit

Additions to spackle to add even more texture to your painting

September 8, 2013by Albatz Travel Adventures 1 Comment

June 9, 2011: The next demo in my mixed-media class was to create even more texture to the spackle mix with the addition of sand, pebbles, grit or other similar things. […]

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Art, Painting

Pressing Objects into Spackle to Add Texture to Your Paintings

August 26, 2013by Albatz Travel Adventures 3 Comments

Basic Acrylic/Spackle Mix and Pressed Textures. Our second Mixed-Media Class was all about using spackle to add texture to your paintings. Jeanne gave us some hints about using texture: in […]

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Art, Painting
Scribble Painting with Image-Transferred Fish

Another method of transferring images onto a mixed media painting

August 19, 2013by Albatz Travel Adventures 2 Comments

My last mixed-media blog I wrote about how to transfer an image onto your painting: How to do an image transfer, method # 1. Here’s another method of transferring images […]

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Art, Painting

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inspired by the colours of the land, sea and sky of Cornwall

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Sense of place, purpose, rejuvenation and joy

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Life in Copenhagen, Denmark, after moving during Covid-19.

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mind's eye introspection vs. bone-tired reality

My French Chronicles

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my photography and other observations

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This blog is my creative outlet where I can share my photos, my travels, my random thoughts and a bit of myself.

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