ee Last week I talked about “getting lit” with Eric Rhodes on Art School LIVE. If you know how I work at all, you know my paintings go through 5 layers, so I decided to show part of my process of building a painting and showed the second stage- which is...
So every once in a while I play with creating a more radical surface. A few years ago I was really experimenting with creating my own surfaces and had some luck with it. With how expensive everything is nowadays I have been thinking about it again. The easiest thing...
Forgive me for the missing blog last week… I was busy bringing my daughter home from college! Pastelmat is a relatively new surface and I have not used it very much, but when I have it feels almost creamy. The layers take pretty well, but at some point the surface...
“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...
