Also, I got to visit the Blick Art store in Kansas City and wanted to try out some of my new playthings. I got a little jar of Gamblin Cold Wax Medium. It says it's "...made from 100% beeswax... holds the thickest and sharpest marks... for artists interested in creating bold texture...." Now, how could I have left that on the store shelf?!
When I put the tip of my palette knife in to take a bit out, it reminds me of a tiny jar of Crisco shortening. For this painting, I added a little dollop of it to each of my paint colors. Yes! There's so much texture on this one! I can hardly wait until it's dry enough to run my fingers across it. (Am I the only person who has to remind myself in museums that I mustn't touch because it's highly frowned upon there? I think not.) I'm going to enjoy this one for as long as it gets to hang on one of my walls. I'm going to enjoy seeing it, and in a week or so I'll enjoy touching it.
Original Oil Painting on 11"x 14" wrapped canvas.
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Ok, I want to come and play in your studio! That sounds like a fun medium to mess around with. I love the poppies!
ReplyDeleteYou know my address, girl! Also... It's 78 degrees here in NWArkansas... I'm thinking that we could sit on the porch swing. How's that sound to a Minnesota girl in December?!
DeleteHave I told you the story about how my friends and I used to play with the spent heads of a next door neighbor's poppies? We would walk through her yard and pick the heads, and they became pepper shakers to shake those little seeds onto our mud pies. I was 8 and apparently had no fear of being yelled at by the "widow woman" (that's what Mom and Daddy called her) who lived there. ;)
ReplyDeleteWhat a happy childhood memory! But my parents pronounced that "widder woman." (lol)
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