Mixed Media on the Cheap
Learn how to use inexpensive supplies to create beautiful encaustic style art! Choose to make a beetle or a fish. All supplies provided!
Learn how to use inexpensive supplies to create beautiful encaustic style art! Choose to make a beetle or a fish. All supplies provided!
I love Roald Dahl’s notion of watching the world with “glittering eyes” for the hidden secrets. Sometimes I charge through my day without noticing the truly remarkable and even miraculous things happening all around me! Today I am going to … Continued
While most of my art is not of the poured variety, I can’t resist jumping onto the poured paintings bandwagon! There are just so many ways you can go about it for really cool effects. Anything that is conducive to … Continued
“Potful of Blessings” is one of my drippy finger painted flowers on an 11 x 14 cradled wood panel. It has bits of paper just barely peeking through, and textured acrylic flowers in a vase on top. I love doing … Continued
The Workroom is celebrating it’s 5th Anniversary with an Artisan Market, and I will have a booth there with art, prints, and other crafty wares!
This brand new version of the Keeper of the Plains is done in a wonky grid sort of style that is my take on Mid Century Modern. I think of the many beautiful Kansas sunsrises that I have seen and … Continued
Mighty Jungle was created as a demo piece on the final day of workshops for the Topeka Art Guild. We were making use of many of the techniques we had used throughout the week, so I started with alcohol inks … Continued
Featured artist through the month of April at Botanica! Stop by the lobby and take a look! There is no charge if you only want to visit the lobby, but you might not want to miss their month long Fairies … Continued
“Ruby Red” is an example of reverse painting on a mixed media background. I used Golden high flow paints, acrylic inks, alcohol inks, blending solution and alcohol to create an interesting field of red on Yupo paper similar to this … Continued
Use high flow acrylics to create a drippy floral on a 16 x 20 inch stretched canvas. We will also use needle tip masking fluid, and alcohol blending solution for some special effects.