Whatever you call it, it happens when you touch a flame to paper, just enough to let a ghost of ashy, charcoal-y gray/black touch the paper. It’s hard to stop once you get started. You can fix it with acrylic spray, workable fixative, and then paint over. You can take an eraser and remove it […]
smoke painting, ink dripping and collage on w/c paper, 10 X 11″ We see the surface textures of things and miss the heart of them. Meanwhile our lives are full of holes where creatures live out of sight and unknown to us. But if we listen closely we can hear the skittering and feel the […]
smoke “paint”, acrylic inks, collage, phone book “hair” on w/c paper, 10 X 11″ The gods came to to proclaim it as the most beautiful creation, there where it lay beneath a smoky sky raining golden drops. We smoked up my studio a bit last Monday, more with the smokin’ hot excitement of playing with […]
Ink and smoke on w/c paper by Muse Carol L. One of the greatest pleasures for me in teaching these mixed media lessons in the Muse Groups is that each student has her own take on them. No paint by numbers happening here! So I’d like to share the student pieces from the smoke painting […]
smoke painting on w/c paper Who are these wispy apparitions? Ghosts, or are they feathers on a bird’s wing? There was unanimous feeling in Monday Muses that this one was angelic. It’s all smoke and mirrors, or at least smoke from a candle flame. Here’s how we did it. Pretty easy. and no, we didn’t set […]
Sharpee pen and watercolor in accordian fold w/c sketchbook, 3″X8″ I have to admit I’m getting a bit behind on this bud/bloom sketch-a-day challenge. After all, when you sit and look at your garden in the spring, the whispers soon turn into shouts of “fertilize me!” (the roses) “weed me!” “trim me!” and you jump […]
Recently, on one of those days when it seemed that the world order is coming apart at the seams, I was going through a stack of unfinished Muse paintings, and found this. It was a demo I’d done on smoke painting. And the words “CALLING ALL ANGELS” came to mind. I felt like doodling, and […]
This is the incubation time between Muse Group sessions when new mixed media lesson ideas are swirling around in my mind. I always bring back some of the ones we’ve been enjoying over the years, like crinkled Masa paper and smoke painting, but the seasons change and suggest new possibilities. El Dia de los Muertos […]
You wouldn’t believe me if I told you how this painting started. Somewhere at the beginning was a smoke painting that later got covered up, when the irresistible mushroom shapes I’d rescued from another painting took over. smoke, inks, acrylic, collage, acrylic texture on w/c paper, 10 X 11″ the uprising of the ‘shrooms from […]
My bird feeders are busy stations these days. There’s the mixed birdseed one, the Nyer seeds for the smallest birds and the blocks of suet laced with seeds and fruit. They swing with activity throughout the day. Oh and then there’s the hummingbird nectar as well. So small wonder that when we did the crazy […]
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