These tiny 2 inch square canvases are perfect for painting miniature Monet waterlilies. First, I painted them with clear gesso and pulled out some Monet books for inspiration… My technique was simple: 1. Stipple background in soft colors with a stencil brush. (made transparent by mixing acrylic with gel medium) […]
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“The Seraph” Mixed-Media on Cardboard
The background texture was made my stenciling over a large piece of lace… Heavy gel medium mixed into the paint for more texture… If you turn it upside down…. Dried orchids… Applied directly to the board with the gel medium… The long strands of her hair repeat the shape […]
Easy Self-Portraits for Kids
Didn’t these turn out awesome!? It’s an easy and rewarding self-portrait project for students! Graphite paper is the key to allowing younger students to obtain a good likeness of themselves. I found some good graphite paper at Hobby Lobby, next to the pencils in the art supply section. My […]
Facebook Drawings
I post a lot of drawings on Facebook. No planning, erasing, correcting, or changing. Just sketch+post. You can, too. Forget what anyone else thinks. Who cares? I used to get discouraged and think you had to go to art school to be an artist. But you don’t. Drawing doesn’t even […]
“Mariana”
“Her tears fell with the dews at even; Her tears fell ere the dews were dried; She could not look on the sweet heaven Either at morn or eventide.” ~from “Mariana” by Tennyson.
Violin Glass Mosaic
Here’s my third attempt at glass mosaic. I still needed cutting assistance (those curves!) from my instructor, mosaic artist Louise Gunn, but for the most part, I was able to complete this one on my own. These tiny pieces of metallic gold glass were perfect. Hard to get the dried […]
Love and Light
These inspirational designs are the handiwork of Austin based artist, Tildon Humphrey. You can see some of his amazing taxidermy pieces here. He created several original designs and was extremely generous to grant me permission to print 8 of them onto cards. Please see Knox’s Etsy shop to purchase a […]
For Thomas
For Elias
This piece was made by finger-painting on Bristol vellum and then cutting the pieces out by hand. The background was made by dragging a piece of cardboard through the leftover paint on the palette, and then swiping it across the paper in an upward motion. I uploaded the photo to […]