Feather - Water-Media Workshop. Day 16

Feather and Nest
17"x13" water- media on paper
NFS

Artist Note

Another creative day.

I had a blast.

So many amazing artists are in the group 

 I can't help but be inspired 

by what they do, but the ooh and ahh moments
happened when
Nancy Frost Begin
worked on a painting to demo the
way we would be working.
I could have sat and watched her paint
all day long.
No such luck...She was very aware of
wanting her students to have time to paint.

This was another method where we painted 

on top of an old painting. No coating of acrylic
matt medium this time.
(I goofed and called it varnish yesterday.)
With this one

 white tempera paint was applied 

over the painting in different ways

and left to dry. Next, black (permanent) ink

was put on rather intuitively. 

Special instructions were given

 on the next step

of hosing the tempera off.

We did that yesterday.
See below

The resulting imagery

"spoke to me" and I saw 

the direction I wanted to go.
The underlying marks
provide some wonderful natural effects
one cannot create any other way.
I really like this painting.

What a creative and stimulating

two days they have been.
Thank you, Brilliant Nancy!

The next two days are with

Susan Hanssen.

She is fabulous painter.
I am looking forward to another
completely different approach.

See her work HERE