The Wild Rock Textures of Loophead in Ireland
At the Loophead Lighthouse we saw some photos of the nearby rock formations and just had to go exploring the area. The walk from the Loophead Lighthouse to the nearby […]
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Graffiti Textures from Around the World
A collection of graffiti textures from around the world. Rusty graffiti abstract on a hoarding in Madrid, Spain. Plaster wall incised with graffiti in Chittor, India. Not graffiti per se […]
Textures of the Royal Tombs of Hue in Vietnam
A trip to the Royal Tombs of Hue in Vietnam. Decayed metal. Decayed metal. Metal door. Mischievous puppy. Painted wood panel. Graffiti on rust-coloured walls in TuDuc’s royal tomb.More graffiti on rust-coloured […]
Rusty Textures from Around the World
A collection of rusty textures from around the world. Rusty fittings and weathered wood in the boatyard at the Frigate in Ebeltoft, Denmark. Rusty garage door in Talpa, Mexico. Rusty […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: SouthWest US Texture
These red rocks are along on various highways near Moab in Utah. The black shiny desert varnish adds a contrasting visual quality to the rougher texture of the sandstone; the petroglyphs add another. Black shiny desert […]
The Texture of Spring
This is an experiment in trying to capture the ‘texture’ of spring in a different way than my usual macros of flowers. These images didn’t turn out as well as I had hoped, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Albatz Travel Adventures 