July 3, 2014
Don’t you agree? I did a newspaper image transfer with Gloss Medium & Varnish and then played with black and white acrylic paint – stippling the white onto the black surface which makes it almost look bluish. I wrote the title with a Bamboo Nip Pen- I have mine forever and love using it with … Continued
June 27, 2014
One of the things I struggled with most after I quit my job as a paralegal was to find structure in my daily life as an artist and …the worst..to actually find time to make art. I know a lot of people that studied art and then in order to survive and make money … Continued
June 23, 2014
DISCLAIMER: This Blog Post contains a picture with a peeing panda – some might think of it as totally inappropriate . If you have a problem with this, you might be better off looking at something else . Don’t email me to complain, don’t visit my blog anymore because I might post things like this again … Continued
June 19, 2014
My new canvas “On The Flip Side” – Jersey City in the background and “our” Lady Liberty . Why “our”? Well…it is in our yard and faces New York…go figure ;) What a symbol this statue carries, how much hope and how many dreams are connected with it – amazing. I can see her from … Continued
May 24, 2014
A couple weeks ago we had a little art show with artwork of the artists living at Dixon Mills and for the residents of Dixon Mills. It was a fun social event in our Social Club and I think there were about 60-70 people. It was not only awesome to be able to show some … Continued
May 19, 2014
If you have good thoughts, thy will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. *Robert Dahl* This background started out with a mono printed background demoing in a workshop and from there I added layers of layers, hiding, revealing and adding There is a lot of texture on this … Continued
May 10, 2014
We get the New York Times on the Weekend and I love to read it but every time I put the paper into the recycling I look at the sometimes very colorful pages and think “what a shame” …and so…I came up with this Painting with Newspaper Technique. Basically you use the colors of images … Continued
May 4, 2014
All that we are is the result of what we have thought – Buddha This page started out as a demo page at one of the Artvergnugen Workshop Demo Pages, I had created a simple background with acrylic paints and used my Stamps and the included templates with acrylic paints. I later hand … Continued
April 29, 2014
I am on my way to NAMTA Art Materials World in Pittsburgh today. Stampendous! will have a booth there too and these are some mini canvases I created using my Stampendous! Signature stamps. Basically I created a background for each canvas with different color combinations using Acrylic Inks or Soft Body Acrylic Paint – … Continued
