The storms continue!

But I am tucked away in my studio going through photographs for the Wen Redmond workshop. Part of this workshop includes painting on different surfaces, so, I am beginning to paint on different papers as well. I’ve never used acrylic paints before, and it turns out they really do not come out of your clothes. At all. Stubbornly set in, as my darling mother would have said.

Because this process of making art is so utterly new to me, I do not have any expectations of success. It’s pretty freeing! This is all experiment, play, trying anything and everything, with some successes and some failures. It is very exciting and am pondering how to use these techniques down the road.

Pondering shall continue.

Another of my favorite artists is Bobbi Baugh. While she seems to use some of the same techniques as Wen Redmond, her work has a totally different flavor. That’s one of the great things about art and artists: Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Van Gogh all used oil paints, but you could never confuse their unique styles. That’s what I would like to continue to develop… using quilting and print techniques that have been around for a long, long time, but made new with my unique voice.

Here are 2 different papers so far, both layered tissue paper: Let the experiments continue!

Beth