Barbara Pagani's Tresor Cache 101

View from my back porch where I keep all my stained glass and plants in the winter. It won't be long now and that porch will be super hot

I just love this virtual museum via  http://www.dumpr.net/  where you can see you work blown up. I sold this 8 x 10 painting last year and now that I see it blown up, I may do a 48x48 of it.

Here are the final results of the crackle medium that I used by Americana after adding Liquitex varnish. It was not at all what I expected but it still turned out pretty cool. This is a 6 x 12 mini painting and then just for the fun of it, I put it in the virtual museum to see what it would look like blown up. 

Testing this crackle medium because I found the Kroma too expensive and the Golden Crackle was on back order. So far, I am loving the unique crackle that it gave. Here is what I did with it. First I applied a Golden mixed light pale green, let it dry. I applied a thick even coat of the crackle medium and let it dry 24 hours. Then I applied Golden Napthtol red light and let it dry. It didn't really crackle too much and made the light red look more orange. I painted a flower design with Montana paint markers and let dry. Then I applied one of my favourite colours, Golden Prussian Blue Hue to the background and let it dry. Here are the results on a mini 6 x 12                                                                 still wet                         ...

Finished and varnished 8x8 painting with pouring medium

The smaller poppy painting is finished and waiting for hanging

Although I have tons of errands to do, it is nice and sunny and I think that I will jump on the opportunity to finish this piece today. So this morning I painted the edges of the leaves and all around the edges of the painting with Liquitex gold paint marker. Now I am trying to decide if I want to alter the orange and yellow flower....something about it bothers me. But before I do that I will varnish the black and the leaves and all sides of the painting that way it will give it a nice glossy sheet to match the pouring medium which is glass like. So here are the photos taken this morning which might be too bright from the sun in the back ground. I am not sure I like this flower below.