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Coloured Pencils

Posted in Art Supplies, Drawing on December 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »

For me, coloured pencils will forever mean a 12-pack of Laurentian (as it was spelled back then) pencil crayons, in the cool vinyl package with the cabin on it. I got a new set at the beginning of every school year when I was a child. So did my own kids. Sadly, just about the [...]

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Drawing on Discards

Posted in Art Supplies on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

One of the perks of working at a public library is that we can take books that have been withdrawn from the collection and put in the discard bin for free, instead of paying the 25¢ to $1 that everyone else pays for them. (It’s not actually  all that big a benefit, since [...]

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Sunday Study Notes – 9/7/08

Posted in Art Supplies, Light & Shadow, Studio, Sunday Study Notes on September 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I just got home last night from a week of moving my daughter (and her mountains of stuff!) across four provinces, and found so many wonderful posts waiting for me in my reader! Here are a few that I’m going to have to look at in more depth:

Jamie Grossman discussed How I Varnish Oil and Acrylic [...]

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Sunday Study Notes – 8/17/08

Posted in Art Supplies, Light & Shadow, Oil painting, Studio, Sunday Study Notes on August 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Posts I’ve learned from this week:

Jeff Hayes, in his post More underpaintings…, explained that he likes to have a supply of completed underpaintings to work on. This is a great idea – I sometimes get “stuck” or bored with a painting, or just have to wait for a layer to dry, and if I don’t [...]

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Sunday Study Notes – 8/10/08

Posted in Art Supplies, Museums & Galleries, Oil painting on August 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It’s been a chaotic week both at work and at home!  But here’s something to look forward to:

It’s only 96 days until the Art Gallery of Ontario reopens after closing for more than a year major renovations! (91 until the Members’ Preview.)  This week they posted a very cool picture of the new “barnacle staircase” [...]

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Stretching canvas

Posted in Art Supplies on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve decided to use a golden rectangle as my format for my Composition Project.  Standard pre-stretched canvases aren’t available in golden proportions, though, so I need to stretch my own canvas.  This is a new experience for me. One of my instructors briefly demonstrated how to do it last spring, so I hope I was paying attention!  But [...]

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