Barbara Pagani's Tresor Cache 101

Up until this year, I was famous for picking up stuff in the garbage and either bringing it home, cleaning, sanding and then painting some little design on it or even just drop it at the local second hand store, but because I am trying to clean up the house, I have been holding back......until I saw this cute little rocking chair. I was screaming, pick me up, clean me up and come and sit on me while reading a book. So I brought it home last Friday and I am proud of how quickly I worked on it. Maybe it has something to do with Mr. man's frown when he saw it. Anyhow here are the pic's of start to finish, it will look great in my grandson's room, until he is able to sit and read a good book.                                   And here is the lucky winner of this wonderful rocking chair.

Okay so I am supposed to be finishing my big painting for Justin which I am just not feeling the love for....I tried to conclude the eyes but either they seemed too big or they seemed to small....gesso works wonders and now I am back to a clean slate on the eyes.....grrr! So instead of throwing a whole gallon of paint at the other one, I started a new one today. My inspiration comes from Claire Desjardins....obviously mine is completely different as usual. I just loved the colours that she used with the black background. I think I may do the pouring medium to top coat it and make it really pop                                                   This is Claire's painting which I just love the colours: And this is mine Now that I got some frustration out, maybe I'll get back to Justin's painting 

Here are the latest mini paintings 6 x 12. A couple were started with some detailed line work and then I applied modelling paste, let it dry for 24 hrs, then applies Golden soft body paints, som iridescent medium on a few of them, layers of different colours were dried with Liquitex medium gloss varnish. Some Liquitex glass beads were applied and top coated with 2 layers of Liquitex. They will be up for sale on my Etsy store. https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/bpagani

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 ...

I saw this product demo and had to try it. I like the staining look but I am not sure how it will go on top of the modelling paste. I know that diluted acrylics with water seems to do the trick but I loved the stained washed look better and I am hoping that I can tilt the colours a bit to let them run. I will be starting test on some old pieces of water colour paper and raw canvas and then with modelling paste. Photos to follow 1st test on water colour paper: 100lb hot pressed paper on an old project which I never completed Added magenta, and yellow and then mixed in some blue to get the green It is a little streaky but holds up well.  look even my palette looks like a flower My next test on water colour paper will be on wet paper. I came across some interesting blogs and demos about the product and I will include them in my blog for future reference. Sourse via;  http://ivebeenframedart.blogspot.ca/2012/11/acrylic-flow-release-medium.html ...

source:  http://howaboutorange.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-transfer-image-to-fabric-with.html Here are some of the projects that I experimented with for image transfer: My daughter Sam with her goddaughter, Karina for her confirmation.  Picture of my husband and his brother while visiting Germany in the 60's with a Siberian tiger. This is on of my favorite photos.  My kids, still in progress. Image of Mtl transferred on birch panel. Used various inks and then highlighted the contours of the windows and buildings with metalic permanent inks. Donated for contribution towards travelling musicians at Ce & Rick's house concert 2011.  Final version for my brother in law Vincent 2011.

The Lachine Artist group had a demo on Monday night which I am hoping will be the turn around in my creativity because I am absolutely amazed at the products and the Artist that gave the demo. The woman giving the demo's name is Melanie Matthews and you can see her video on youtube for Golden Paints: http://www.goldenpaints.com/VIDEO/library.php?ID=59 Here is her website:http://melaniematthews.ca/ She is giving workshops in the Montreal area and if you have even one ounce of creativity in you, I recommend you attend any of her workshops. We were all given samples of some Golden Paint products which I have been playing with and I can't wait to go out and buy more.....photos of creations to follow...here is the first couple that I did. The first 2 are family photos of my dad & his brothers, sister and Aunt taken in black and white which transfered wonderfully. I used Med gel gloss to do the transfer. The second one is of a photo of montreal transfered into ...