I May Have Learned a Thing or Two

Pouring paint – Lessons Learned – and there are quite a few.   Or what no to do when pouring paintings! Fine lines are really tough to accomplish with masking fluid – think about avoiding hair (just kidding) You need patience and a lot of it in order to apply fine lines of masque Removing

Toss the Old Goat – and Apparently the New One Too!

Somethings are just not meant to be a poured painting.  I even have blisters on two fingers from this painting – and well, the old goat has been shredded – and the new goat will not be far behind!   Every now and then it happens.  And I knew it as it was happening.  But

while in Vancouver- two WIPs

While visiting my new grandson in this amazing city, I am still working away.  This year is very busy with art obligations (love them all) as they keep me focus and productive, even when the sun is shining.  This is the mid point of these two poured watercolor paintings.  Stayed tuned for the reveal..  Have

WIP – So Glad, Poured Watercolor Painting Complete

I swear, the most difficult pat this process is removing the  masquing compound from the painting!  You really get a workout.  Then you have to be a tactile detective by rubbing your fingers all over the piece looking for stray bits of the stuff.  When you remove the masque (frisk it) from your painting, the

Turn About is Fair Play

Who would have thought it?   I am making a mess in my daughter’s kitchen.  While she lovingly tends to her newborn baby boy Theo,  in the hospital,  I am in her kitchen pouring a painting!  in this incredibly great for pouring sink!  The permanent sap green gave me a bit of a fright…but with

WIP – Poured Painting – So Glad, I think!

I am at it again!  I love the freedom of pouring paint. I have to admit the masking fluid is not acting the way I like to see it.  It is a new bottle and is, well applying  pilley like an old wool sweater.  And the color of this stuff has me a bit freaked out.

WIP – Maritime Blues III, Finally Finished

So, I have been all over this painting consistently for the past two weeks.  Every opportunity I had I would work on it.  I think I have decided that, unless someone commissions me to do another mussel shell painting in a completly different medium, well,  I am done with watercolor mussels – at least for

WIP Maritime Blues – Update #3

So, my goal of painting two or three shells per day has been completely thrown out the window!  Toss in my daughter’s beautiful destination wedding.  And while the event was small, even with company and family literally coming in from the four corners over the world –  the daily painting goal was tossed out the

Rember this? Maritime Blues III WIP – Update 2

Think back… way back to the spring when I first posted two WIPS of poured paintings of mussel shells.  I completed one and let the other, well rest.  Somehow, once I get to about the first third of a painting  I seem to set it  aside  and then finish an earlier piece.  this time is

Maritime Blues II – Finally Finished!

So, what seems like many many months of planning and painting  – this painting is finally complete.  I started two poured mussel shell works at the same time.  The second, well is my next work in progress. I actually think I may have worked this subject out  of my  system… however, I think there may