“Don’t it always seem to go, you never know what you’ve got ’til its gone…” – Joni MItchell So I was in love with the Wallis surface. It was pure white and it took layers like a champion. Later they introduced, “Belgium mist.” It came in rolls as...
This is normally where it begins…the addiction. An artist gets a set of pastels or takes a class and starts to play around with this medium. Typically this is the surface one starts on. Not expensive and no grit like the others mentioned here the last few weeks. It...
This surface comes in many colors…. I have to admit I don’t have one of my paintings to share on this surface. I typically don’t use it and don’t recommend to use it in my workshops because even though it feels very rough, it seems to lose its layerability at some...
“Swan” pastel 15 x 15″ UArt on gatorboard. So if Sennelier LaCarte is the pretty, delicate princess at the ball, then UArt is the party crasher that just showed up on a Harley in black leather. Yeah, it is indestructible and a little badass. It has...
This is the only time I believe in love at first sight…. I don’t exactly remember when I first started using Sennelier LaCarte, but it has to be over 20 years ago. And it changed the way I was working at the time. The ability to layer and layer….and layer again is...
