The Ruins of Chateau Gaillard in Normandy, France
Chateau Gaillard, in the province of Normandy, is a ruin with a spectacular view. Despite being the next stop from Monet’s Garden in Giverny, I can’t find any reference of it being painted […]
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Travel Theme: Decorative Brussels Sprouts
Most cities have some sort of animal or flower to represent them. Brussels has the brussels sprout. It’s pretty hard to make a brussels sprout look good but here they have […]
Dad’s Paintings
Dad Loved his Horses. Life in Denmark in the 30s and 40s. Moving to Canada via Sweden. Living in British Columbia. A Few Oddballs
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 […]
Creating Art without an Undo Button
I see that I’ve gotten spoiled by computers. Now I am working on a ‘real’ painting, and I find myself frantically wondering, ‘Where’s the undo button?’ In my Mixed Media […]
