Barbara Pagani's Tresor Cache 101

Inspiration:   my version: I'll let it dry and play around a little with some of my Liquitex markers Painting completed and then added pouring medium to give the glass like look

A couple of the other experiments with pouring medium on mini 6x12 canvases This was an 8x8 painting that I didn't like so it got poured on I love this one and want to do a huge 24x36 like this....gotta wait for this size to go on special This is the product that spilt over into my container which I thought I could peel off like a skin but the container was too porous. So from here on I will use plastic wrap. This is the pouring medium and then I painted in with Liquitex markers

Evan with Angry bird tattoos Katie bear with butterfly face painting

This one is still a little dark or maybe because there is no sun I find it dark. I will wait for a nice day to work outside on it. This is one of my mini 6x12 paintings that actually was turning into a disaster when I was experimenting with the pouring medium but I played around a bit with it and I am liking where it is going....it is still not completed. Before: I attempted to add some paint to the pouring medium and it broke down....see the red section During: This was one of the first experiments on 6x12 that I did with the pouring medium and reworked it a little....not sure where I am going to take this or if I might leave it alone. I don't like the fact that it seems to be unbalanced with red on the left hand side . I started working on this one the other day while chilling with my sister on her birthday. She has taken up art with me and I have to say she is doing some amazing work. I will post her progress seperately on another post. This one started off wi

My good friend Elaine who loves Art has asked me to do something with a wonderful pastel drawing that she has had for many years but did not like the background. I consulted with some of the staff at Omer DeSerres and finally it was agreed that because it was so old that if I covered it with Gesso that I would most likely be able to paint with soft body acrylic. She absolutely loves it now. BEFORE AFTER but not finished yet

Weekend project with some friends. I prepared the design which we all agreed on and transferred it to my favourite little 8x8 canvases. Then each of us sat around talking and painting. Not all of them are completed yet so I will wait b/4 I varnish mine.

http://www.rickksroom.ca/ . This is a private venue which some of my friends host House Concerts. This weekend it was Jane Siberry which was apparently quite the show but I could not attend.

This is my very first time shipping a large 24 x 36 painting to BC. There is so much to factor in. The packaging, the cost of the shipping. I got a lot of tips from a good source who works for Liquitex, Francoise Issaly for packaging it just right with Styrofoam and tomorrow I am going to pick the brain of my favourite sales girls at Omer Deserres. So far the lowest shipping cost I have found is with Canada Post.

I came across this wonderful article on Facebook and just had to give it mention. If not for other artist's then for my own purpose to read again: I ponder this a lot, I used to think I wasn’t a very creative artist thanks in part to a background inlaid with naysayers, discouragement, indifference and eventually, my very own intense self-doubt about my creativity. So, I figured the best way for me to demonstrate to those who kept telling me how nice my drawings and paintings were but that this pursuit would not amount to much of anything and that I would be better served finding and keeping a real job, was to learn all I could about drawing and painting and become real good technically. I thought for sure this would help explain my love for what I do, it did, a bit, but not really as they continued to see this more like a hobby / pass time than the very real and professional activity it truly was. This was terribly hurtful and came close to discouraging me on many occasions, b

These are 3 of the new mini 8x8 paintings which I have fun playing with this weekend. This one was donated to Rick's Room House concert with Jane Siberry on June 8th 2013. The winner was a woman from New York. Unfortunately I was unable to attend the concert. SOLD - to the same woman who won the raffle of the painting I donated.