I first heard of cold wax medium when another artist said they use it over their watercolor paintings and it give s nice satin luster. Intrigued, I watched some videos, very process oriented, and thus abstract. I wanted to try it, it looked fun. I bought a beautiful book on it (this one, if you are interested), and a can […]
You’ve got to love your medium
Stealing
This week in the course I’m taking, we are to steal a few ideas from a favorite artist. At first I was going to steal from Leonora Carrington, but I didn’t feel that excited about it. Then for some reason out of the blue I thought of the artist Trenton Doyle Hancock. I’m mystified why he came to mind. I […]
Exploring The Crone Archetype, Loneliness, Ageing as Isolation and How That Has Been Affecting My Self Expression
I recently ran into an old friend, one of my first friends when I moved here, pregnant. It was a very hard time in my life, but this woman was part of a group of women who welcomed me into their meetings. All of them, if I remember correctly, were identifying with Crone energy. I am now entering that stage […]
Experiments with limited palette and not-the-usual mark making
I did this series of experiments as part of a class I’m taking. I don’t want to explain the actual assignment in detail since it’s someone’s course. I didn’t really limit palette that much, just tried to use up colors of ink and acrylic that I don’t like it used that much of. I worked from a reference photo of […]
Developing and enlarging sketchbook ideas
This is an exercise from the sketchbook class I’m finishing up. You focus on a page that you like and identify 5 marks and colors. Then you scale those up and repeat them on separate papers. I chose turquoise wash, sepia smudges, turquoise scratches, white lines and light brown transparent tissue paper collage. It didn’t occur to me that serious […]