Barbara Pagani's Tresor Cache 101

I am working with a water colour that I started over 2 years ago and had taped to the back of a cardboard to keep it from warping. What a nice surprise. I brought it up to the cottage this last weekend because I knew we had tons of work to do and lugging all my supplies would have been useless. I am still working on it and will probably have another hour or two to add more dots

Here are some of the paintings with flow aid by Golden and some paintings on the line up for rework. Just when you think you are in love with a certain medium along comes another that you just want to paint with forever but being a multi medium artist, I just seem to go from one to another, falling more and more in love. I worked on 2 small paintings last week with the flow aid for the first time in the series of the lake scenes and mixed the water with the flow aid first, then added the paint and then applied to the canvas. These turned out nice but I found there was a lot of wastage after I had mixed the flow aid and paint so this time I added the flow aid with the water and let it bubble a bit and then applied it to the canvas without any colour and took clean brushes for each colour and dipped them onto the wet canvas. Amazing I all I can say.  Now for those of you who know me, it is going to be very hard for me not to add too much detail to these babies because I ...

Yesterday I had my wonderful friend Andrea over to start doing some exercises to get into painting. I started her off with something relaxing while we chatted, doodling with water colours. Later on they were embellished with markers. Here are some of the designs that I worked on.