Saga of the ruined painting
I have an old painting that I started in my senior year of high school, which my then-teacher effectively ruined by painting upon it with her firm idea of what she thought I should be doing with it. Here is a picture: I used a photograph from some book for the fuschia flowers [...]
Polyform is changing their colors
I am not happy about this. Polyform – makers of Premo and Sculpey are changing their clay colors. They are adding several that, to be honest, look interesting. However, they are also doing something I think is incredibly stupid and idiotic – they are eliminating some of their primary colors!! The following colors are discontinued: [...]
Smoosher’s Scavenger Hunt for the Holidays
I posted about this the other day, but I didn’t provide a snapshot of some of the prizes that you can win. And you can get more details, as well as other ways to enter to win one of the prizes, at our guild’s blog. There’s some really neat items to win, so you won’t [...]
Exploring Watercolor
Ok, not so much “exploring” as jumping right in. In July I talked about receiving a new book by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law, which sparked my interest in picking up the watercolor brushes again. I noted that this time, I wanted to use artist quality paper and paints. And so I went out and bought some. [...]
Crafting ADD
It seems I have crafting ADD – there are so many things I want to work on or try, that I work for so long on something, lose focus, and move on to something else. I’ve moved from polymer clay, to making hairbows, to picking up some new watercolor paper blocks and even some nice [...]
Final sketch – I think I got it!
I worked on my initial sketch of my daughter tonight, and after two tries and then some clean up to lighten the pencil marks for painting, here it is: I can hardly wait to start painting it, though I may not get to that until tomorrow night after a family outing, due to the late [...]
My current project – art not jewelry
Based on one of my previous posts where I said I was going to start back into drawing and watercolors.. well, here is my first project: On an artists’ forum I recently joined, it was suggested in a class that was done back in 2006, to try overlaying a the reference photograph and the sketch [...]
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