I didn’t like what a drippy layer of Rotring ArtistColor in Raw Sienna was doing, so I wiped it down with a paper towel, and now I like it quite a lot.
January 10, 2015 at 11:39AM
White drippies of FW Acrylic Artists Ink now dry.
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January 10, 2015 at 10:53AM
Another 5×5 canvas with many previous lives (read: layers). Added some Pentalic Woodless Pencil 2B, collage, and Golden Regular Gel (Gloss). Feels like it’s starting to come together.
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January 10, 2015 at 10:39AM
Watching paint drip while listening to Car Talk on NPR.
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January 10, 2015 at 10:19AM

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Retreat Report: Winged Ukuleles, Gremlin Photobombs, and Other Amazingness
I’m dying to tell you all about this weekend’s Create & Incubate Retreat (the Second Annual!), but where to start?
When an experience is so rich, it’s like poetry or music or art: there’s more going on than can be expressed in regular words.
We had a conversation about just that at the retreat, in fact, when someone was expressing self-consciousness about her painting. She has never thought of herself as an artist, was exploring with paint for the first time (at the “Creative Sandbox” table I set up, with bottles of acrylics, brushes, and paper from my studio), and she had a hard time seeing what she painted as “art.”
The rest of us could see it, though. [Read more…]