This Monday: COLOR PLAY: inks and chalks

 Come join the fun!

Month long Matisse study, mixed media

1/18/2016 class today

Today's work of an absolute beginner student!!!

 Ilene has never painted, owned no paints, brushes anything.  An absolute beginner and look at this beautiful work!!!  Check out the pearl details.   Astonishing!

project MOnday Morning 1/18/16

See video at the below post.

monday mornings for jan. 18, video

Romanitc, Victorian images for Valentine's Day prep..

Here's what happened January 11, 2016:  First we played with potatoes!

some potato stamping on brown paper.

Then we painted vintage postcard beauties:

Today, Jan. 4, 2015

Today I taught and demoed how to paint using shaving cream as a medium.  Shaving cream has the wonderful effect of creating a regular painting into a waxy, dreamy encaustic look.

We added acrylic paints to a fistful of shaving cream, mixed, then painted on photocopies (on regular copy paper).

(See previous post for samples I did which appeared in an article I did for Somerset Studio magazine currently for sale at B & N and elsewhere.)

Next week we will be painting romantic images of victorian children in a loose manner to get into the Valentine's frame of mind.  Here are some examples.

 See you Monday morning, January 11, 2016!

Monday, January 4 demo will be….

Painting with Shaving Cream as seen in this article in Somerset Studio magazine.

This is the actual art submitted.

Bring image (s) that are black and white photocopies, paint brushes, water can, paints, palette knife, varnish

I will bring all that, plus shaving cream, varnish


The technique is simple with profound effect. Mix acrylic paint into shaving cream then spread on the paper image with either a paint brush or palette knife.  Leave it alone for 30 minutes as it develops. Adjust with either more paint, markers, colored pencil or nothing.  After it is comoletely dry we varnish it with gloss vanish.

It makes a dreamy effect like a memory cloud.

On 12/14/15 Monday

Painting with gesso