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 […]
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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 […]