Illustrator Kristin Vestgård. Posted by: cathy on Sep 25, 2013 Tagged in: Untagged I love the etheral quality of Kristin's illustrations.
The soft, muted colors she uses make her illustrations look almost as though you're looking at them through a fine mist. This is an exerpt taken from our Biography: "Of Norwegian origin, Kristin Vestgård studied for her degree at Falmouth College of Art. Stunned with her work, she also got invited to exhibit in galleries in London and Cornwall. Some Inspiration. Posted by: cathy on Sep 19, 2013.
Take a walk on the wild side. A Cockerel, for a Hemlock - cure all. We recently opened up the main site blog to our members and to our delight, a brand new member, Iliteratepoet, very kindly contributed with this poetry.
It's interesting because the train of thought behind the poem is explained, something we don't often get to see. In point of view, Hemlock spur does allure, When death be the only cure. In fractal Worlds I prefer to stay, Least until the actual day. Death to my visionary World. There Are Flower Fairies in Your Garden. What Colour is your Personality? Using makeup brushes for painting? Posted by: WatercoloredHands on Sep 11, 2010 Before writing this post, I did a google search about using makeup brushes for painting and almost all the results were actually about using painting brushes for makeup (some even claim it is cheaper).
So let me tell you my story. After attempting a couple of half and full sheet paintings recently, I discovered that my 1 1/2 inch taklon (good-ish synthetic) brush was no longer coping when I wanted to cover a large area in paint and achieve a smooth wash. Nor was my #36 round brush (also synthetic). It logically followed that I need a big brush with good paint-holding capacity (i.e. natural hair). And so I head an idea. And a very quick wash on a half sheet (22×15″). It took me maybe 5 loads total to cover the whole sheet – and not because the brush ran out of paint, but because I wanted to change colors or get more saturation. Cleaning Hard Paintbrushes. In the past, I've always thrown away paintbrushes that had gone hard.
Even solvents didn't seem to work that well and I didn't like the cost to the environment using these. I've just recently found this article which says that using ivory soap gets your brushes back to their former glory. It’s very simple - take a glass jar (I think she said it needs to be non-reactive - which would be vessels like ceramic, glass, stoneware, food-grade plastic, wood, or porcelain, as opposed to reactive vessels like copper, zinc, cast iron, brass, aluminum, carbon steel, or galvanized anything) and place a bar of ivory soap inside.
Fill with enough water to cover, and drop your brushes in. The soap makes a nasty grey slurry mix. Let sit for a couple days, then wash with soap & water. How to make needlefelted acorns. Today I felt like sharing the needle felt technique as I love to do so during autumn. So here we start. Needle felting is different from wet felting. With wetfelting you use water and soap, with needle felting not.
It is sometimes also called dry felting. How to make a nunofelted scarf. Today I want to show You how I make a nunofelted shawl.
I warn you it is a lot of work, but at the end you'll have a wonderfull shawl. 2 pieces of bubble wrap where the scarf fits in. Great Movies about Art and Artists. I have been on a bit of an art movie and documentary binge recently.
I am on my third viewing of Georgia O'Keeffe (2009) since they posted it on Super Channel recently. A fantastic portrayal of one of the finest female artists of the 20th century. I always appreciate people who march to their own drummer, and Georgia O'Keeffe definitely falls into this category. Joan Allen was fantastic as Georgia, allowing me to forget that this was an actress's portrayal of a complex and talented woman. Jeremy Irons is Alfred Stieglitz, her lover, and narcissistic champion. The cinematography is beautiful and having never had the good fortune to see an O'Keeffe in person, I appreciated the chance to see the magnitude of some of these works by proxy. Bubble Art - Using Gary Reef's Technique.
Posted on my website on June 6, 2010: I used a technique learned from Gary Reef to create the following Bubble Art pieces..
The shapes are wood, two inches thick, the base is about 8 inches wide and about 10 to 11 inches tall. My neighbor got a new front porch and I came home when the guy was cutting these pieces off.. Coloured pencil tutorial of a strawberry. Whilst out with a couple having a meal the other evening, we were talking about art tutorials. SusanAlisonArt.
Beyond my self-imposed boundaries & the discovery of encaustics. Well, it never felt like I was really pushing myself to go beyond what I felt was my "discomfort" zone in my art... but at the same time, I really have been.
For the past year, my husband's and my life have been in extreme turmoil... it's still dragging on. Our personal relationship is strong (and has been for almost 23 years) but we are facing a really scary future. I cannot give details right now. Since I created my first blog, I've finally allowed myself to turn inwards and explore the anxiety and stress that our situation has created and to allow that exploration to present itself onto canvas. I Am My Own Indiana Jones. Posted by: JenDonald on Nov 23, 2010 Tagged in: Untagged I love the Indiana Jones trilogy. Out of all of them, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is probably my favorite because of one memorable scene: the leap of faith.
Jones is standing before what appears to be an impossible chasm but needs to reach the other side. He wrestles with what he sees- this vast crevasse with no passage, and what he knows- that a Leap of Faith will get him across. That scene gave me goosebumps the moment Indy took that first step off the edge of the cliff.