Barbara Pagani's Tresor Cache 101

This is the print that Elaine liked and was laminated on canvas with the matt gel I made some of my own templates for the printing with puffy paint  this is one of my linoleum carvings that I did years ago  yup I got suckered in with Gelli printing. I went for at least 2 weeks of printing when we had some family issues and I was forced to stop. There are topics all over you tube and so far Carolyn Dube and Jane Davies are my favorite. Jane Davies relaxes me and I could listen to her tutorials without the music forever. She makes everything seem so effortless. I like Carolyn because she has no fear and paints anything. So I bought 2 gelli plates, which are not cheap. The first one I had money left on my December birthday gift card from our local art supply shop, Omer DeSerres. I had to try it, and luckily it was on special and I only had to pay the taxes. It was a 6x6" which is small but I cured my fix for a couple of days when I went on our local Varage Sa...

Here are some of the existing pouring medium experiments This one got a little more poured medium added to certain areas for a nice little relief  This one just got more colour....but I am still not sure if I am liking it. Some of the Golden Flow aid experiments. Note it took over a day to dry These babies will be getting a nice pouring medium resin like finish over the weekend.

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 ...