Settling in for the long haul on this, I think!!!! Painting in thin glazes to build up colour and shapes which takes quite a long time. Wish I was a bold and splashy painter .... but its impossible to change ones natural approach. Well I find it so! I also wish that I could hold a camera straight when taking pics ...... LOL!
Really had to pull myself together and begin another project ....Last autumn a friend gave me a bunch of hydrangeas from her garden - beautiful! So, although I rarely paint flowers, I decided that the colours in these lovely blooms might inspire ....STAGE ONE1. Canvas 16" x 20": This was tinted by wetting with water and dropping in the three primary colours. These were then swirled together a litt
Our fires have been burning for 3 weeks now, the sky is strange, the landscape looks pale and feverish. I am finding acrylic to be expressive and spontaneous, and quickly painted this one tonite, looking out the back door. About 8x12" on bristol drawing paper.Incidentally, I used a limited palette of hansa yellow med, quin red, bone black and titanium white. yellow+black=green!Thanks for looking a
About Lesly Finn
I am English and emigrated to New Zealand with my husband in 1999, since when I have been able to pursue a long held dream of expressing myself with paint. Ideas for my work come from a variety of sources, including images from the natural world, dreams, emotions and memories. These are portrayed [...]
About Brian Rice:
Brian was born on May 25,1958 and his roots are in the small outport of Pilleys Island, Newfoundland, Canada. At the age of nineteen he moved to central Canada in the Sarnia, Ontario area, where he now works in the Petrochemical industry.
His interest in art began in high school, when an art teacher [...]
Whenever I use different materials it seems to really help my creative spirit fly. I feel much less invested in the outcome and simply find joy in the process; what a privilege!Atelier interactive acrylics on dick blick canvas panel 12x16", I really like these paints. This painting was inspired by my recycled magazine trivet shown on The Handcraft Zone my new craft blog.Thanks for looking at my work!
Sarah J. Mueller
If you have any experience with acrylic painting, you have probably already noticed that it is a fast drying medium. Many new artists squeeze far too much acrylic paint out on the palette and wind up wasting it. Make certain you do not squeeze out more than you need. To keep the paint moist on your palette, get yourself a spray bottle and fill it with water. Keep it handy and spray a mist over your paints every once in a while to keep them from drying up.
This is my first go at acrylic painting. Before that, I usually painted either with oil, which is very grateful when it comes to modelling the shapes and colours, due to its slow drying ability, or with water colour which has exactly the opposite features. The great thing about water colour is that you can just put away your brushes when finished and turn to someting else, as to oil, you always have to clean up after you worked and the smell of turpentine can make you dizzy.As to acrylic, it is right in the middle between the properties of both oil and water colourl. It dries fast, does not smell, is a bit blunt and shallow compared to oil, which always looks great and colourful. You have to work fast as the paint litterally dries under your brush.
Anyway. I took the original photo to this picture with my mobile phone at the Berlin Starbucks and instantly planned on turning it into an acrylic painting. It is still quite unfinished for now. I'll certainly have to rework both faces, bu
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Painters Tip
Seeing Shapes
If you can't figure out how to draw or paint something, think of it in terms of basic shapes. Can you find any geometric shapes which will help you to put things together in the object? The chances are that you will. Let's say that you want to draw a pitcher or a vase. It you look at how wide it is and compare it to how tall it is, you will either have a square or rectangular shape that you can use to start with.
Then look for the negative spaces between the edges of the actual object and the rectangle or square you are using. The form starts to emerge out of the basic box shape you started with. You will also see these geometric shapes in the figure, animals, houses, trees and other objects. It is a great way to start.
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Painters Tip
Sometimes we can actually grow up.
I have been shunned by a promoter for about four years for their paint outs in north central Florida. It is a situation of political intrigue, back biting, and the usual problems that many artists find themselves embroiled in on the local art scene. I'm sure this happens to most of us now and then. These particular paint outs are wildly popular and almost all of the paintings are guaranteed to sell, bringing in 50,000.00-80,000.00 each time.
To make matters worse, all of my friends are invited from around Florida. The folks that I paint with at many professional events. I get to hear all of the stories and the bragging about huge sales, and worse, the sympathy from them all that I am rejected and banished from all of the fun.
Of course, I have been bitterly angry about it for 3 years, but something happened to me this year. I don'
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Painters Tip
Brush Care
Take care of your brushes whether they are high quality or not so good. Take time to wash them in between painting sessions. www.studioproducts.com sells a wonderful soap called Ugly Dog. It is excellent. If you don't want to buy a special soap, use a mild dish washing soap.
I put the soap on the brush without any water first and work it through the hairs thoroughly. Then I add just a bit of water so it will suds up. I clean and work it throughout the bristles for awhile before rinsing. Then I do the process again. After they are rinsed out, I smooth the bristles, lay them out and let them dry good before storing them again.
I use the same process for my oil brushes and acrylic brushes.
5x7 inchesacrylic on panelunframed115.00 includes shippingPurchase HEREPainter's TipI have been working on the Flower Workshop I am teaching next weekend and one of the assignments is to consider the possibilities of cropping as a design exercise. The painting above came from the four image exercise I did. It has lots of possibilities and the exercise is stronger than the painting, so I will be going back to do more paintings from the exercise. I cannot emphasise strongly enough the value of doing painting exercise for your own growth. You will get so much out of the training that you give yourself. If you study with a workshop teacher who is exercise oriented, as I am, keep the exercises to do over and over again. Your work will improve greatly.
Celon Oak Park8x10 inchesacrylic on panelsilver frame500.00Purchase HEREPainters Tip In Depth StudyMy friend Ed Terpening HERE ,master landscape painter, made a good point about studying specific parts and piece of subjects. He told me about a project he did in studying wave action. I think this is the best approach to studying subjects. Breaking them down into small specific areas of study, really reveals their secrets.I once had a drawing student who wanted to study lace. She felt it was so complex that she did not know what to do. I got out a pair of scissors and cut out a 4x6 inch piece and handed it to her. The light bulb went on and she proceeded to draw it very accurately. By studying a small section, she did not feel overwhelmed by the complexity of the large piece. I am studying trees this year, and so I am gathering up limbs, leaves, and small sections of trunks to study. I will do paintings of trunks, leaves, canopies, limbs, and various tree shapes throughout the ye
5x7 inchesacrylic on panelunframed115.00Purchase HEREArtist JournalTomorrow I am teaching a workshop so I won't be posting again until Sunday. I'm still doing small paintings of flowers and have gotten hooked to them. They are very challenging in that I wish to keep the loose abstract quality to them but give them enough refinement to make them recognisable. I don't want to do traditional floral painting. There are so many traditional floral painters in the world. They don't need me jumping on their wagon too. I am after the essence of the shapes and rich colors that florals give us. I have some new art camps and workshops lined up.Linda Blondheim Art Studio WorkshopsAcrylics For Beginners - April 7, 2007 Meals included 75.00 Designed for beginning painters or experienced painters who have never tried acrylics.Fun with Fruits and Veges- July 28, 2007 Meals Included 75.00 This one will combine my skills as a former garde manger chef with painting. We will paint fruits and
