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A while back I posted an experiment I did with my leftover tissue papers from pressing weeds and wildflowers for printmaking. I started another one at the time and only recently was able to finish it. I finished them by painting black gesso on their sides and that dressed them up a bit. They...

I think Jo and I must have been thinking about pears at the same time because I took this painting of mine out of the frame and reworked it on the day she posted her beautiful still life. The original had a very dark background because I painted it from life while it was in a box with a strong...

This is a set of 47 pastel pencils (supposed to be 48 but one ran off) that are really nice for details or signing pastel paintings. I no longer have the original tin but keep them in a zippered plastic pouch. They need to be sharpened but otherwise they're in great shape. $15 plus whatever...

I have a set of Rembrandt pastels that needs a new home. It's a set of 90 colors in two layers in the original box. Some sticks were used often while others are mostly intact. I would break off pieces as I needed them. I'm thinking of asking $20 for them but the box weighs 3 lbs. so shipping...

I posted my collage experiments with tissue paper leftover from printmaking a while back. I was never happy with the way I left the 12x12 in. piece but wasn't brave enough to mess with it. It became one of those "what have you got to lose" things so I painted in the white spaces. I don't know...

I'm just playing around with acrylic paint and trying to make simple designs. My hands aren't able to do much in the way of mixing or fine details but it feels good to move paint around. I didn't rinse my brush between colors and liked how even a tiny bit of the previous color made the new...

I'm still recovering from surgery on my dominant left hand and trying to do what I can while it's in a brace. My right hand isn't capable of much either so I felt like Edward Scissorhands trying to hold a brush with whichever fingers were available. :LOL: I could only open the tubes of burnt...

Is it a dumb idea to try to paint over those mass-produced canvasses that are everywhere now? Some of them come in decent wood floater frames which I imagine could be covered with tape before gessoing and painting. I picked up a free one from Facebook marketplace and want to experiment with it...

I'm still playing with rubbing alcohol. Acrylics, watercolor and NeoColor II crayons. 6 1/2 x 9 on watercolor paper

There is a very ugly, gaudy floral several layers beneath this little painting. I covered it all over with more layers of paint and experimented to see if I could rescue it at all. I found that adding rubbing alcohol and letting it dissolve the upper layers uncovered spots of "flowers"...

Another little one in my sketchbook, worked on over several days. I was trying to convey a landscape - sky above and land below - but it kind of got away from me. Empty sky spaces still need interest and land shapes want to become recognizable things too easily. 7x7 ink, NeoColor II crayons...

I found a blog post by abstract artist Jane Davies where she talks about scribbling and making marks when she's frustrated with her work. I'm able to scribble so I gave it a shot. Spraying water on the scribbles made with NeoColor II crayons created watercolor effects and covering passages with...

An abstract landscape maybe? 7x10 acrylic, NeoColors and pencil on watercolor paper.

I press weeds and wildflowers to make prints for note cards. Part of the process is using tissue paper to remove the excess paint from around the flowers once they are laid on the printing plate (a Gelli plate). Sometimes I get interesting images on the tissue so of course I save it. I'm...

I love it when they x-ray paintings and find paintings hidden underneath! Here's the link about an upcoming Van Gogh exhibit.

Another acrylic in my sketchbook. There's a little glare - maybe I'll try again on an overcast day to see if it helps with the photography. These things are so hard to title but hopefully it can be interpreted in a number of ways. 7x10

This was an abstract that didn't work and became a floral that got tight and fussy and finally the figure emerged. The red patch was part of the first attempt and I decided to keep it and make a painting around it. It makes no sense but it's about as close to an abstract as I could get with...

Another one in my watercolor sketchbook. I doodled some lines to being with and added some washes another day and then added the sheet music and more paint. I had no intention or sense of direction and just tried to keep it abstract. It's so hard not to let any area become precious and I can...

I wanted to do an abstract landscape and it wanted to go its own way so I let it and then did another one of the same theme. I'm pretty sure the frustration I feel at not being able to paint as often as I'd like due to health problems came out in these. Oh well, at least I can say I have a...

I think this is the third time I have painted on this canvas which I had previously textured with tissue paper and molding paste. I just keep covering the old paintings with gesso and trying again. The texture looks very strong up close but it hardly shows from across the room. I like that...