Author’s Note from my Dad’s Journal of Memories
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 […]
Category Archives: Painting
Monet’s House in Giverny
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 […]
Mixed Media Struggle 3: Gesso is my New Undo Button
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 […]
Mixed Media Struggle 2: How Do I Stop Centering Everything?
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 […]
Mixed Media Struggle 1: Using Photoshop to Second Guess Myself on a Problem Painting
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 […]
Mixed media painting first assignment: ‘And all I could do was remember’
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 […]
Glazing over the spackle texture on your mixed-media painting
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 […]
Additions to spackle to add even more texture to your painting
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. […]
Pressing Objects into Spackle to Add Texture to Your Paintings
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 […]
Another method of transferring images onto a mixed media painting
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 […]
