Opening Reception is Friday, May 29, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
This exhibit is a collection of oil, acrylic, pastel and mixed media paintings.
The Art Bar is located at 722 E Burleigh St. Milwaukee WI. http://www.artbarsc.com/
At this Art Bar exhibit by the Martini Girls, there will be a bin to collect art supplies for the Penfield Children's Center. http://www.penfieldchildren.org/ (833 N 26 St., Milwaukee WI 53233 phone: 414-344-7676) Please donate to this worthy cause.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
Acylic Butterfly - texture exploration - 24" x 24"
Just finished this. Experimented with Golden Acrylic regular Gel, Glass bead gel, fiber paste, Light molding paste and micaceous iron oxide. I like the sculptural effects and variation in gloss you get with these mediums.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Finished 3 acrylic paintings
Took advantage of Golden's open acrylic slower dry time to do more blending on the canvas. Also used palette knife on mountain one.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Demo by Beki Borman at Milwaukee Sketch Club 5/12/09
Beki Borman gave an excellent demo. http://www.bekiborman.com/
She generally starts with a gestural drawing. Then she starts her painting by looking at both her drawing and photograph. As the painting progresses she reacts to what it's doing and less to her reference material.
She demonstrated her mixed media technique starting with watercolor. She pours on her color and moves it around with a big 3"? flat brush, then lets it dry. Sometimes she puts salt or alcohol on to create texture. She works the negative spaces in the background along with her form.
Her 140# arches is taped (masking tape, 2 rows) to a board but not wet and stretched before hand. (Joyce, a watercolorist in our club buys homasote board from home depot or menards, has them cut it in 1/2, then one piece into 1/4. The 1/2 piece fits a full sheet of watercolor paper. She then soaks/ wets her paper and staples it to his board. To flatten her watercolors she mists the back lightly, then layers as follows: plexiglass, papertowel, artwork facedown, papertowels, plexiglass, weights(books). She changes her papertowels twice and her artwork dries in a day.)
Next media she uses is watercolor pencil. She uses Reeves and dark turquoise pencils from Michaels. She likes the turquoise pencils because they're soft. I have tried 2 kinds of watercolor pencils, prismacolor and carandache. I like carandache because the colors are really intense and they're pretty soft. Someone likes Lyra.
Then she'll come in with regular color pencil. (She started with green scheme, came in with brown, then started using red complement. She keeps an idea of her color scheme in her head and doesn't necessarily follow real life color.) She uses prismacolor and progresso from Michaels. She likes progresso because they are very soft.
Then she'll go in with gouche which is very flat and opaque. She usually mixing it with a little watercolor and water. Generally uses white, sometimes black. Although black has a bluish cast to it so she prefers to use ink.
Sometimes she'll add pastels. Occasionally will add gum arabic (watercolor medium) to make a wash and go over a piece to add a sheen but it picks up gouche and watercolor pencil. Sometimes she uses masking fluid which she applies with an old brush or bamboo pen. (Joyce uses a good brush, wets it first, uses it 3 times, then rinses it. Masking Fluid dries fast and you have to keep rinsing it out or it will ruin your brush.) When she was doing her forest series she used masking regular masking tape to mask out areas in her paintings.
She likes SB framing gallery in Milwaukee's 3rd ward. http://www.sbframinggallery.com/ and also likes Niki Russos in Deerfield WI.
She generally starts with a gestural drawing. Then she starts her painting by looking at both her drawing and photograph. As the painting progresses she reacts to what it's doing and less to her reference material.
She demonstrated her mixed media technique starting with watercolor. She pours on her color and moves it around with a big 3"? flat brush, then lets it dry. Sometimes she puts salt or alcohol on to create texture. She works the negative spaces in the background along with her form.
Her 140# arches is taped (masking tape, 2 rows) to a board but not wet and stretched before hand. (Joyce, a watercolorist in our club buys homasote board from home depot or menards, has them cut it in 1/2, then one piece into 1/4. The 1/2 piece fits a full sheet of watercolor paper. She then soaks/ wets her paper and staples it to his board. To flatten her watercolors she mists the back lightly, then layers as follows: plexiglass, papertowel, artwork facedown, papertowels, plexiglass, weights(books). She changes her papertowels twice and her artwork dries in a day.)
Next media she uses is watercolor pencil. She uses Reeves and dark turquoise pencils from Michaels. She likes the turquoise pencils because they're soft. I have tried 2 kinds of watercolor pencils, prismacolor and carandache. I like carandache because the colors are really intense and they're pretty soft. Someone likes Lyra.
Then she'll come in with regular color pencil. (She started with green scheme, came in with brown, then started using red complement. She keeps an idea of her color scheme in her head and doesn't necessarily follow real life color.) She uses prismacolor and progresso from Michaels. She likes progresso because they are very soft.
Then she'll go in with gouche which is very flat and opaque. She usually mixing it with a little watercolor and water. Generally uses white, sometimes black. Although black has a bluish cast to it so she prefers to use ink.
Sometimes she'll add pastels. Occasionally will add gum arabic (watercolor medium) to make a wash and go over a piece to add a sheen but it picks up gouche and watercolor pencil. Sometimes she uses masking fluid which she applies with an old brush or bamboo pen. (Joyce uses a good brush, wets it first, uses it 3 times, then rinses it. Masking Fluid dries fast and you have to keep rinsing it out or it will ruin your brush.) When she was doing her forest series she used masking regular masking tape to mask out areas in her paintings.
She likes SB framing gallery in Milwaukee's 3rd ward. http://www.sbframinggallery.com/ and also likes Niki Russos in Deerfield WI.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
In process experiments, a watercolor & an acrylic
This water color is my third try of dripping and splashing paint on a wet sheet of paper. It was fun to do. May go back in & tighten it up or crop it. Just flattening it right now.
Just finished the background of this acrylic. Thinking about applying a glaze before stamping. Inspired by a presentation on Andy Warhol given in my drawing class. Here's some You-tube videos on him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn6sE0kcPaI
Saturday, May 9, 2009
In process Pastel Butterfly on mustard yellow sanded substrate
styrofoam works well as a blender
However I think I should have used a darker substrate. I cannot get the darkness/ intensity of color I want. So I washed off the pastel and going to redo this on a darker background or maybe in acrylic.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Conte Sketch from draped side of Milwaukee Sketch Club
Charcoal & conte crayon on thick brown fashion designer paper.
Next week is a demo by Beckie Borman. She graduated from MIAD and is a member of the Milwaukee League of Artists.
http://www.miad.edu/component/option,com_alumni/alum,284/Itemid,396/
A friend went to Waukesha's Art Crawl last weekend and saw paintings by Chuck Weber.
http://www.weberportraits.com/
http://www.artinmilwaukee.com/profile.jsp?id=40
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Marker & colored pencil butterfly for class
Used green & purple, magical & mysterious palette on manga paper.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
2 pt perspective pencil & marker drawing for class & about.com 30 Painting Ideas from Idioms & sayings
Also a link to about.com 30 Painting Ideas from Idioms & Sayings for May: http://painting.about.com/od/inspiration/tp/painting-a-day-ideas-3.htm?nl=1
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