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  • Who-hoooo!!! Four and a half yards of plain ol’ white cotton fabric turned into these colorful (and color-fast), hand-dye-painted beauties: Detail pictures follow… and all are click-to-enlarge. Some of you know how much I love to paint decorative papers with layers of acrylic paint (see my …

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  • … time though ! Anyhoo, back to the Crusade… When I saw Michelle’s challenge to us, I immediately got out my journal from the workshop. I realized that I didn’t do many gesso techniques other than to prime my pages with some brush stroke texture. One thing I did discover was that gesso comes …

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  • … & Clothing Technology at Barnfield College of Art & Technology, Luton, Beds. Final year Debut at the London Academy of Art. An inborn love for drawing & painting has inspired works in various media, (abov all pensil/charcoal drawings, watercolours, oils & acrylic) Rosa is currently still studying to better …

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  • … as their medium, and lately I’ve found myself aspiring to one day become a capable painter. So, here’s a painting I’ve been working on as a way to experiment with some different techniques. I’m pretty happy with the final result, but happier still with the amount I learned through this process. 14.5 …

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  • … as an inspiration. Guy Aitchison began tattooing at the age of 21 at Bob Olson’s Custom Tattooing in Chicago. He had been an illustrator for a few years prior, painting album covers for many bands on the California-based Shrapnel Records label. After only two years, Guy went out on his own and opened his own …

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  • … in a frame with a mat. Is it possible to “retouch” a painting after printing to give some texture like a traditional oil/acrylic would? How do you go about doing something like that? Absolutely. One of the folks on this forum, Anne Carter Hargrove, does this quite a bit. You can read more about her methods …

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  • Who doesn’t like an elaborate nail once in a while? I know that I sure do! I can’t wait to try out some of these techniques the next time that I am painting my nails. Although nails like these have been on the runways, it seems that the real nail trends for the winter season are dark purples, greys …

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  • … and glues all the pages together so he can make a recessed, cut out area and create a shrine, no one else is going to be able to work in the book. Once you do get into your book you can alter your pages any way you enjoy working. If you find that acrylic paints work best for you and you don’t have …

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  • … much work with canvas and a brush, bt did most of my things in fabrics and dyes. it’s all art, but different materials and techniques is all. anyway, i’ve been watching jim build figure after figure and finish painting after painting, and i liked to think i had the whole process in mind when i …

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  • … i lived in the epicenter of cracktown. i loved this fucking song. i think i also spent a lot of time alone in the smoking room of pat’s pub, making abstract painting with acrylic using oil techniques (conscious of the fact that they don’t work due to drying time, even with the most intense …