Working on two non-objective paintings in the summer of 2017 and not having a clue what to do next, I put white ans white tinted with yellow on the painted canvases, and then scraped with one of my rubber, serrated “combs” from De Serres. “Eagle...
Murphy’s Oil and Palmolive Dish Soap: great suggestion by Sharon Barfoot for cleaning oil paint off of brushes. Blue towels from automotive section of Canadian Tire and hardware stores: recommended by Brian Atyeo. Terrific for rubbing fiercely on your canvas or...
The peppers for the fajita recipe came on a Styrofoam tray which I turned into a stamp by cutting off the edges and drawing into. It is easy to make impressions just using both ends of a pencil. Pressing the open end of a bottle down makes circles. These two...
When I cut off the end of a green cabbage to make a salad, I noticed the intricate, floral-like design of the piece of cabbage. I set it aside to try it as a stamp with Green Gold acrylic paint over an intuitive watercolour on paper. Here is the stamp and a few...
Here’s a tip I remembered from a Brian Atyeo workshop: use transparent acrylic paints as your undercoat on black Gesso. Then, when you continue to paint with both transparent and opaque colours, they can been seen. Otherwise, the colour just seems to be...
