Friday, September 20, 2013
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Slaying the dragon
"Beowulf the king
had indeed met with a marvelous death.
But what they saw first was far stranger:
the serpent on the ground, gruesome and vile,
lying facing him. The fire-dragon
was scaresomely burnt, scorched all colours.
From head to tail, his entire length
was fifty feet. He had shimmered forth
on the night air once, then winged back
down to his den; but death owned him now,
he would never enter his earth gallery again."
-Beowulf, Translated by Seamus Heaney
.
Ink on canvas. 8x10" (Thanks, Rebecca, for the photo!)
had indeed met with a marvelous death.
But what they saw first was far stranger:
the serpent on the ground, gruesome and vile,
lying facing him. The fire-dragon
was scaresomely burnt, scorched all colours.
From head to tail, his entire length
was fifty feet. He had shimmered forth
on the night air once, then winged back
down to his den; but death owned him now,
he would never enter his earth gallery again."
-Beowulf, Translated by Seamus Heaney
Ink on canvas. 8x10" (Thanks, Rebecca, for the photo!)
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Monday, December 31, 2012
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Friday, September 21, 2012
Rubber Cement
Today I taught a group of kids ranging in age from 7 to 17 some fun watercolor tricks and techniques.
The most popular by far was the straw blowing (taking a staw and blowing the wet paint in all directions).
A close second and third were salt, and rubber cement.
Sadie got to sit in on the class. She played around a bit with crayon and rubber cement.
She put a LOT of rubber cement down, so we had to wait until we got home for it to all dry. I wasn't too optimistic that her painting would turn out well.
When the rubber cement was all dry, we did a wash of solid plain blue watercolor over the top of her rubbercement, she also had some light painting underneath the rubber cement, so when it was all said and done, her light painting sits under the blue one and comes out through the resisted areas.
They actually turned out really well!
The most popular by far was the straw blowing (taking a staw and blowing the wet paint in all directions).
A close second and third were salt, and rubber cement.
Sadie got to sit in on the class. She played around a bit with crayon and rubber cement.
She put a LOT of rubber cement down, so we had to wait until we got home for it to all dry. I wasn't too optimistic that her painting would turn out well.
When the rubber cement was all dry, we did a wash of solid plain blue watercolor over the top of her rubbercement, she also had some light painting underneath the rubber cement, so when it was all said and done, her light painting sits under the blue one and comes out through the resisted areas.
They actually turned out really well!
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Collaboration with Sarah Banowetz Photography
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)