Barbara Pagani's Tresor Cache 101

I purchased this product a while ago to do some stencils and when I got it home I found some cool tutorials on you tube and played around with inks on it with my brayer. I loved the way the inks spread around on this terraskin. The results were pretty cool and I played around with it for a couple of hours and got completely lost in it. I didn't want to use this one as a stencil because I thought I could do something with the piece I had worked on but I just never got around to doing anything. So while on vacation/spring cleaning the cottage I slipped some of this terraskin in with my art supplies and used a new sheet to make a stencil of a tree. This terraskin is beautiful to cut and it was like butter. This is the very first time that I didn't worry about being to aggressive with my edge cutting. The product is very durable. Here are 2 different examples of different paintings. This is the piece of Terraskin that I played around with an up close section of it where I

I have been working on a lot of the mini's lately because they are easy to transport. We spent a week at our cottage with the 2 dogs. Boy are the black flies bad this year. Here is some of the progress on the mini's Hubby braving the bugs while staining the deck a new mini with gloss medium gel 

still working on the big one. One may say I have been a little distracted lately

this time outside which was perfect. They are a little rough to work with the paint markers so I had to seal them with a coat of varnish before working with them. But they have nice coverage and they don't clog as much as the Liquitex spray paints but I think that is because Liquitex one's are water based.

Testing out new paints today Sabotaz 80 on a new painting called sweet memory. These paints are not for painting in doors unless you are in a well ventilated area. For this reason I prefer the Liquitex spray paints. I bought these only because they were half the price and had some really vivid colours but I won't work with them in the house again. Way too smelly. Another thing I didn't like about them is even after shaking the can for at least 3 minutes the first spray comes out globby and sticky without any paint. So I need to make sure that I spray them for at least 2 mins on to a test board. I can see the areas that left streaky globby marks and I tried to scrape them off but they still show. I will add some textured mediums to this later once it dries. So here is the painting so far. I do love the colours but I probably won't buy them again.