Showing posts with label acrylic paint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acrylic paint. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

'WOYWW - 3/7/12 - Shhhhh! Glazing Chemist Resists The Urge!'

by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes

Howdy and Welcome and Happy WOYWW!

Unusual for me this week is a tidy work space!

I was forced to clean up because I had to prepare for a scrapbooking event - and needed the worktable to organize and stage my supplies. It was painful - but the results were worth the trouble.

Before the event, I went shopping at Michaels and JoAnns and used a slew of coupons. LOVE those coupons! Most of the loot is already put away in their 'homes'.. So now I just have this last little task to do: fill the empty bottle with glazing medium.


Glazing Medium (Liquitex) and empty bottle (Michaels) -
on workstation protected with
Tim Holtz's tissue paper (Ranger)

I put a Ranger dabber top on the Michaels bottle. I prefer to spread my wet materials with a dabber instead of a brush. Quicker and neater for me.

My usual MO is adding acrylic paint to glazing medium - then I'll have a smidgeon of color available to quickly apply on the base of my art journal pages. There are drawers and drawers of different colored tinted glazes, tinted clear gessos and tinted white gessos in my studio!

But for this bottle, I'm going to resist the urge to color, and just keep the medium plain and clear.

What do you think of my idea for this glazing medium? Do you like to play chemist? Do you mix up glazes, and medium, and paint?


Thanks for stopping by! Would love for you to comment on this post - or any of my other posts, and become a Follower while you're visiting.

And 'Shhh!' stay tuned this month - for another Giveaway! Wanna see more artists digs? Go to this week's WOYWW here!

Peace,
LuLu

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Art show, Dreamworks and Dragonfly painting!

Howdy and Welcome,

Good News!
The dates for my rescheduled art show have been confirmed with the gallery. What a roller coaster ride this has been for me... Hope you can come see my art show in 2011. See the right sidebar on my blog for details.

Meanwhile, I'm prepping for an all week 'retreat' at a scrapbooking store next week and also organizing my entries for an annual art/literary contest due soon.

Here are some digital images I worked on this week. They're based on my original painting I worked on when I went to Los Angeles a couple years ago to house sit for some artist friends.

I also was able to arrange some meetings at Dreamworks Animation Studios while I was in California at that time. (Dreamworks makes THE BEST movies!) Didn't get the job at Dreamworks, but they showed me around on a tour of thir lovely campus - and also gave me a souvenir of my visit!





'Dragonfly in Frame'
c 2010 M. L. Haynes










'Dragonfly with Shadows'
c 2010 M. L. Haynes 







Can't decide which one I like the most - they were both so much fun to play with in PSE and MS DIC. Which is your favorite?

Thanks for visiting and please stop by again soon!

Peace,
LuLu

Thursday, March 18, 2010

How to organize acrylic paints stash

I don't have a LOT of acrylic paints. But one way that I organize my most often used acrylic paints is in the top 2 drawers of a rolling cart. The long skinny bins I found in sets at JoAnns. These bins keep the drawers categorized and also keep things from rolling around too much.
Tube acrylics and Claudine Hellmuth paints - stored bottoms up for quick access. Ranger Dabbers, Golden FLuid acrylics and Making Memories.
My other, least used bottle and tube acrylic paints are kept in bins in the large middle drawer of a 3-drawer rolling cart.
How do you store your acrylic paints?

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Lost to Eternity: Turning Point of Orpheus upon Eurydices ascent from Tartarus


'Lost to Eternity: Turning Point of Orpheus upon Eurydices ascent from Tartarus'
(Digital Hybrid: mixed-media on canvas board, scanned and manipulated)

My favorite piece of artwork - so far. I really enjoy the ancient myths - in addition to philosophy and Shakespeare, of course.

This piece was done as an experiment with tissue paper and diluted white glue (Elmer's). Many weeks after it was dry, I scanned it and played around with it in Photoshop PSE. Submitted it to a contest, too.

Click on the image for a larger version. Can you see Orpheus' lyre in his right hand? It looks like a ram's head!

Coeur d'Or - Heart of Gold

A contest submission.
'Coeur d'Or'
 Before

Ingredients: scrapbook paper, mixed media on watercolor paper
'Coeur d'Or'
Apres...
 Same submission - after being tweaked with Photoshop PSE.

Fyi, the music notation was re-written by me on watercolor paper. The music is from one of my original songs that I recorded with my rock band (a million years ago!)

Which version do you llike best? The BEFORE version? Or the AFTER version?

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Peace,
LuLu

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