A Healer’s Touch

Yesterday as I was cleaning the studio, I came across a couple of watercolor and acrylic paintings, which were works in progress. They were my first attempt to break out of the cyclic creative block that I seemed unable to shake this past week.
One of them represented the different emotional and psychological imprints that can [...]

Monday

I have been a busy bee over the past week or so. Unfortunately, this means I have had less time for blogging.
I’ve been in the studio everyday from early morning to late afternoon working on two paintings for the Egyptian series. Yes, I have been hard at play and loving every moment of it!

Sekmet -Acrylic [...]

Happy Accidents

Today was another gorgeous, wonderful day here in northern California!
Today, I prepped a couple of sheets of watercolor paper for tomorrow and did this painting in the afternoon. It was one of those happy accidents.
I accidentally spilled some watercolor paint on the paper and as I was trying to clean it off, this winged figure [...]

Cut Paper Portrait

Wow! I love the way the paper-cut portrait turned out.
I want to try this sometime!
How to Make a Cut-Paper Portrait by Haya Ainu

When Angels Dream

I wanted to be productive today and paint something so I created the abstract painting below. I am still working on this one.
I need to work some more on the angels and the background. I am thinking of  adding some touches of ink and metallic paint to spice it up a bit.
This afternoon, I prepped [...]

Work In Progress

I am still working on the Lady of the Forest painting. Below is a photo of my progress so far. It’s been a slow go, but only because there has been so many other things needing my attention. “C’est la vie”
I am looking forward to this weekend because we don’t have anything important planned and [...]

Acrylic Warm Up Exercises

I started out this beautiful sunny morning with some warm up exercises using acrylic alcohol resist techniques and metallic watercolor paint.
The beauty of these is that they can be used as a start for a painting or you can tear them up into interesting shapes and use them as collage material for other paintings. You [...]

Rainy Day in the Studio

Today I woke up to another grey, rainy day and I really didn’t feel much like doing anything so I grabbed a cup of good strong Irish tea and began my day.
Later  in the afternoon, I was able to work in the studio and started laying in the background colors on this painting. I also [...]

Work in Progress

I have been working on this painting again and have added a few new elements to it.
I am making progress on the piece despite the occasional interruptions. Oh, such is life. But I am having fun!
It felt really good to have two full days in the studio so I could get some work done. My [...]

Playing With Watercolor

Today I played around with monoprinting using watercolor and acrylic. I added a dash of Golden’s  Fluid Acrylic “Nickel Azo Gold”, to deepen the yellow areas, and then used Cretacolor pencils for the rest.
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Actually I was [...]

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