Barbara Pagani's Tresor Cache 101

Finished and varnished 8x8 painting with pouring medium

The smaller poppy painting is finished and waiting for hanging

Although I have tons of errands to do, it is nice and sunny and I think that I will jump on the opportunity to finish this piece today. So this morning I painted the edges of the leaves and all around the edges of the painting with Liquitex gold paint marker. Now I am trying to decide if I want to alter the orange and yellow flower....something about it bothers me. But before I do that I will varnish the black and the leaves and all sides of the painting that way it will give it a nice glossy sheet to match the pouring medium which is glass like. So here are the photos taken this morning which might be too bright from the sun in the back ground. I am not sure I like this flower below.

Still working on the 30x30 along with the 6x12. I struggled a bit about the positioning of the other 2 poppies and whether there should be 2 or 3. I hear that 3 is always a better number of things when adding something in a painting. Since the first one took up so much room I decided to do a side view only. They I didn't know what colours to do and so I did a mix of colours with orange, white and yellow for the first one and then the second red and white only. I them wanted them to some how look like art noveau style and edited the background green. I am still working that out. I had to walk away from it several times because I thought I might be going to far but it gave me the chance to come back wth a fresh look. I think in the end of it. I will complete the black edging and then outline the green with either a metallic blue or gold. The gold with give some definition. I still have to wait at least 72 hrs for the pouring medium to cure and then details and then final varnish.

It has been a while since I played around with my Liquitex pouring medium. I finally went out and bought some large squeeze bottles to make the job easier. I worked on a smaller on 6x12 and I am not tackling the 30x30. Both of these shots are while the product is still wet so it will be interesting to see what the outcome is when the colours have had a chance to settle. I will wait for the first poppy to cure b/4 I start the second one on the bigger painting. I am not too sure I like the colour that I painted in the background and may change that up when completely cured.

I came across this photo via Pinterest from http://pinkelliephotography.com/jennifer/ and this is just a beautiful shot which is very fairy like. Check out her other work

I will let this 6x12 piece with black and white acrylic paint cure for 72hrs and then do some iridescent  paint on top of the relief. Totally inspired by Sarah Moffat. Out come to follow This will be my new auction piece when done. The bids starts @ $10.00. Phase 2:

This is the picture of the winner of the contest for my contest to name that cow painting.

This painting was up in the livingroom for quite a few years, unfinished. My middle daughter took it down and put up a newer painting I recently finished and told me not to put it back up until it was finished. I like to look at some paintings before I go over the edge and take it in another direction. Having said that there should be a time limit as to how long it can stay up and this one was very close to being gessoed over. Instead because of my resolution to finish up some old paintings, this one got another chance. Some times it is almost impossible to stop myself from just starting over. Now I am dealing with the face that I am trying to get the right patina of aged copper without making her look too green. Of course the solution should be to just run out at buy some copper paint but no I am trying to build up the layering of different hues with using a iridescent green and gold which is really hard to see in the photo. so far it is off the chopping block

Trees and Flowers are two of many of my things to paint, and I am blown away by Sarah Moffat's work. Check it out at http://www.sarahmoffat.com/ And this is an article in a local paper:

I came across this pretty cool web site to make a virtual Museum with your art work, http://www.dumpr.net/ Source via Sandrine Pellissier http://paintingdemos.com/2011/02/15/4-interesting-websites/ Anyhow check out how cool these are

This painting I started last spring and it was the first time that I had played with the Liquitex professional spray paints. Anyhow I lost the feeling to continue it and wasn't sure where it was going. I hung it up in the dinning room because it made it look very colourful. My daughter had a party some months ago and someone managed to knock it off the dining room wall, leaving a huge hole in the plaster wall, so I put it away because it's pretty big. While cleaning up and determined to conclude some of my older paintings, I pulled this one out. I still didn't know where to go with it but after working on the last painting that I used glitter I thought I would add some to this one. Of course I ran out of the puffy paint glitter half way through. I thought well why not just add some gloss medium with some paint into the existing containers....bad idea, it looked like crap. Then I decided to paint the puffy paint which looked like crap, gold. So far so good but I want to hig

This is not a big deal for most people but I rarely ever win anything as a matter of fact years ago I was  asked to get out of the group that I had just joined after a month of them not winning anything. I think this changed my attitude for playing lotteries. Every now and then I would play the random machine picking the #'s game but I never won.....that whole sense of disappointment comes back about that group every time. So this week I was looking up a ticket on line that I had purchased a while ago, having that awful feeling that I wouldn't win and of course I didn't.....boo hoo. Anyway I saw that you can now play on line and I thought oh what the hell and low and behold I am a first time winner. They even sent the results to my email and I didn't have to dread looking up the #'s. Maybe that JINX is gone. I won't loose my shirt on line don't worry. okay 2 weeks later, I won another free lotto ticket but no million or even thousand bucks yet. I am going