Confessions of a Pebble Picker-Upper
I blame my mom. We’d wander along the nearby Qualicum Beach and pick up so many beach pebbles that we were staggering under the load. Then we’d bring them home. […]
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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 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 […]
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 […]
Beach Pebbles – a Photographic Study
May 10th, 2011. I found these stones with interesting patterns on the beaches and rivers around BC. On my first attempt at photographing them I took the photos against a […]
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 […]
Mixed Media Painting Class – Selecting Images Suitable for Transfer, 2 years later
I took this mixed-media painting course two years ago but didn’t have time to follow it though. Now I’m taking it again, and finding that some things are easier the […]
Mixed Media Painting Class – Doing Image Transfers, Method No. 1
Although I have yet to do a successful image transfer I am now going to attempt to describe the process. Paint or stain your background with acrylic paint and let […]
Mixed Media Painting Class: Selecting Images Suitable for Transfer
Selecting images suitable for transfer. I took the Mixed Media & Built Surface class two years ago in order to get back into painting. Now I am taking it again in summer […]
Albatz Travel Adventures 