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I am going to play with a new medium, White Opaque Flakes by Liquitex

Okay I fooled around a bit with the white opaque flakes and didn't really find anything special about them. I used them on a board that I was hacking around trying to get an antique feel like Mae Chevrette but I never managed to get anywhere close to how cool her paintings are. So here are the results which I am not sure if I liked. I will look to see what other artist out there are doing with them but not something that really pulled my chain. It is hard to see but I added the opaque flakes in the bead like pieces of the chandelier and then added some irredentist medium to make them brighter  I have been doing work at the cottage getting it ready for our vacation and here at home, purging and getting rid of things we are no longer using. It makes me so happy when I put things to the curb the day before and they get picked up. Right now I am just too lazy to drive them over to the place that recycles just about everything. I do plan to do some new paintings and conclud...

Spoiled today by my good friend Kathy aka Molly McGuire

I went for breakfast over at my friend Kathy aka Molly this morning to check out her new apt. She had breakfast waiting for me with a luscious coffee Here are some photos of her cute little place and of course a picture of our wonderful breakfast While I was there I also had a chance to take a picture of a painting I made for her years ago

chandelier painting progress

added some matt gel medium and fairy dust

Lanterns are all done and hung