Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Webinars - Monoprint without a Press
See the Post on March 26, 2009 for an updated version of the Webinar.
Webinars - Monoprint without a Press
See the Post on March 26, 2009 for an updated version of the Webinar.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Rolling acrylic paintings for shipping
Here's a question from the email bag:
"Hi Tesia- Here's a question for you. If I take a 40X60 acrylic painting off its stretchers and roll it up in order to transport it will the paint crack or is it pretty flexible? This will save me a big shipping charge. The paints, by the way, are Golden acrylics.Thanks,Frank AnsleySt. Helena, CA."
Thanks Frank for your question. There are several things to consider when rolling a painting. Rolling a painting is fine if that's the only way you can ship it. It's not the best, but it's okay. In winter weather, you want to be sure you roll the painting in room temperature with the paint film facing out.
I'm going to refer you to this excellent article http://www.goldenpaints.com/justpaint/jp11article1.php at Golden about shipping paintings. Be sure you roll the painting around a hard cardbore core.
It should be fine if it doesn't stay rolled up too long. Be sure you provide adequate unpacking instructions ON THE OUTSIDE of the container for your customer at the other end. For instance, let them know not to the leave the tube outside and to unpack it immediately.
Hope that helps!
"Hi Tesia- Here's a question for you. If I take a 40X60 acrylic painting off its stretchers and roll it up in order to transport it will the paint crack or is it pretty flexible? This will save me a big shipping charge. The paints, by the way, are Golden acrylics.Thanks,Frank AnsleySt. Helena, CA."
Thanks Frank for your question. There are several things to consider when rolling a painting. Rolling a painting is fine if that's the only way you can ship it. It's not the best, but it's okay. In winter weather, you want to be sure you roll the painting in room temperature with the paint film facing out.
I'm going to refer you to this excellent article http://www.goldenpaints.com/justpaint/jp11article1.php at Golden about shipping paintings. Be sure you roll the painting around a hard cardbore core.
It should be fine if it doesn't stay rolled up too long. Be sure you provide adequate unpacking instructions ON THE OUTSIDE of the container for your customer at the other end. For instance, let them know not to the leave the tube outside and to unpack it immediately.
Hope that helps!
Rolling acrylic paintings for shipping
Here's a question from the email bag:
"Hi Tesia- Here's a question for you. If I take a 40X60 acrylic painting off its stretchers and roll it up in order to transport it will the paint crack or is it pretty flexible? This will save me a big shipping charge. The paints, by the way, are Golden acrylics.Thanks,Frank AnsleySt. Helena, CA."
Thanks Frank for your question. There are several things to consider when rolling a painting. Rolling a painting is fine if that's the only way you can ship it. It's not the best, but it's okay. In winter weather, you want to be sure you roll the painting in room temperature with the paint film facing out.
I'm going to refer you to this excellent article http://www.goldenpaints.com/justpaint/jp11article1.php at Golden about shipping paintings. Be sure you roll the painting around a hard cardbore core.
It should be fine if it doesn't stay rolled up too long. Be sure you provide adequate unpacking instructions ON THE OUTSIDE of the container for your customer at the other end. For instance, let them know not to the leave the tube outside and to unpack it immediately.
Hope that helps!
"Hi Tesia- Here's a question for you. If I take a 40X60 acrylic painting off its stretchers and roll it up in order to transport it will the paint crack or is it pretty flexible? This will save me a big shipping charge. The paints, by the way, are Golden acrylics.Thanks,Frank AnsleySt. Helena, CA."
Thanks Frank for your question. There are several things to consider when rolling a painting. Rolling a painting is fine if that's the only way you can ship it. It's not the best, but it's okay. In winter weather, you want to be sure you roll the painting in room temperature with the paint film facing out.
I'm going to refer you to this excellent article http://www.goldenpaints.com/justpaint/jp11article1.php at Golden about shipping paintings. Be sure you roll the painting around a hard cardbore core.
It should be fine if it doesn't stay rolled up too long. Be sure you provide adequate unpacking instructions ON THE OUTSIDE of the container for your customer at the other end. For instance, let them know not to the leave the tube outside and to unpack it immediately.
Hope that helps!
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Matte Acrylics versus Regular acrylics
A question from the email bag: "I am trying to create a gouache-like surface with acrylic and am wondering what medium/gel to add. I am looking for super easy flow off the brush and a flat application..." Thanks to Rosalie Fanshel for submitting this question.
Rosalie: The best bet I think is to use the Matte Acrylics from Golden. You can get a very velvety surface from these. Compare the Matte Acrylics with regular Heavy Body in the picture above. The gloss of the regular Heavy Body Paint is causing a glare. Keep in mind you can also just put plenty of Matte Medium into your regular paint to knock back the glare. However, you will diminish the color somewhat since Matte Medium tends to add a waxy like effect to the color. As sh
own in this photo. The words "matte medium" are in fact made with matte medium and you can see how waxy they look.
own in this photo. The words "matte medium" are in fact made with matte medium and you can see how waxy they look. So, there you have it. Your choices are 1) to use the Matte Acrylics from Golden or 2) to use lots of Matte Medium in the paint itself.
Hope that answers your question, Rosalie. Any other comments? Let me know.
Matte Acrylics versus Regular acrylics
A question from the email bag: "I am trying to create a gouache-like surface with acrylic and am wondering what medium/gel to add. I am looking for super easy flow off the brush and a flat application..." Thanks to Rosalie Fanshel for submitting this question.
Rosalie: The best bet I think is to use the Matte Acrylics from Golden. You can get a very velvety surface from these. Compare the Matte Acrylics with regular Heavy Body in the picture above. The gloss of the regular Heavy Body Paint is causing a glare. Keep in mind you can also just put plenty of Matte Medium into your regular paint to knock back the glare. However, you will diminish the color somewhat since Matte Medium tends to add a waxy like effect to the color. As shown in this photo. The words "matte medium" are in fact made with matte medium and you can see how waxy they look.
own in this photo. The words "matte medium" are in fact made with matte medium and you can see how waxy they look. So, there you have it. Your choices are 1) to use the Matte Acrylics from Golden or 2) to use lots of Matte Medium in the paint itself.
Hope that answers your question, Rosalie. Any other comments? Let me know.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
How to Tear Printmaking Paper
Isn't it frustrating when you try to tear a piece of beautiful, expensive printmaking paper and you don't get a nice deckled edge? Well here's the easy way to do it.
Lay the paper down on a clean table. Dip a clean watercolor brush into clean water and draw a line across the paper where you want the deckled edge. Then place a sturdy (and clean) straightedge on the water line and hold it down. Now, pull up the paper towards you in one clean, strong motion. Voila! You have a beautiful deckled edge to your paper.
Lay the paper down on a clean table. Dip a clean watercolor brush into clean water and draw a line across the paper where you want the deckled edge. Then place a sturdy (and clean) straightedge on the water line and hold it down. Now, pull up the paper towards you in one clean, strong motion. Voila! You have a beautiful deckled edge to your paper.
How to Tear Printmaking Paper
Isn't it frustrating when you try to tear a piece of beautiful, expensive printmaking paper and you don't get a nice deckled edge? Well here's the easy way to do it.
Lay the paper down on a clean table. Dip a clean watercolor brush into clean water and draw a line across the paper where you want the deckled edge. Then place a sturdy (and clean) straightedge on the water line and hold it down. Now, pull up the paper towards you in one clean, strong motion. Voila! You have a beautiful deckled edge to your paper.
Lay the paper down on a clean table. Dip a clean watercolor brush into clean water and draw a line across the paper where you want the deckled edge. Then place a sturdy (and clean) straightedge on the water line and hold it down. Now, pull up the paper towards you in one clean, strong motion. Voila! You have a beautiful deckled edge to your paper.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Techno Beasts.....
I just read the funniest article about Facebook. http://www.newsweek.com/id/183180 After spending most of the day catching up with all my inbox stuff, updating my blog, updating my Facebook page, re-activating my Twitter account, getting my blog listed on TopBloglist, my eyes are sore, my head aches and I think I've sprained my right pinky finger from typing at a weird angle.
Is all of this necessary? How do I unplug a little? Beats me. All I know is that it seems like all of these things have to be done to keep up. Please send me your thoughts.
Meanwhile, I have to go update my Linkedin Page and my Plaxo account....... :-P
Is all of this necessary? How do I unplug a little? Beats me. All I know is that it seems like all of these things have to be done to keep up. Please send me your thoughts.
Meanwhile, I have to go update my Linkedin Page and my Plaxo account....... :-P
Techno Beasts.....
I just read the funniest article about Facebook. http://www.newsweek.com/id/183180 After spending most of the day catching up with all my inbox stuff, updating my blog, updating my Facebook page, re-activating my Twitter account, getting my blog listed on TopBloglist, my eyes are sore, my head aches and I think I've sprained my right pinky finger from typing at a weird angle.
Is all of this necessary? How do I unplug a little? Beats me. All I know is that it seems like all of these things have to be done to keep up. Please send me your thoughts.
Meanwhile, I have to go update my Linkedin Page and my Plaxo account....... :-P
Is all of this necessary? How do I unplug a little? Beats me. All I know is that it seems like all of these things have to be done to keep up. Please send me your thoughts.
Meanwhile, I have to go update my Linkedin Page and my Plaxo account....... :-P
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Barrack Obama, Gallery Deathwatch and Yo-yo Ma
It's been a crazy couple of months. I've been absent from the blog scene so I have a lot to catch up on. First off, WAHOOOOOOO, we have a new Prez and I am ecstatic. I won't even begin to spin off here into my wild ravings because I could go on at length about how happy Barrack Obama makes me. I have started watching CNN for crying out loud! I have an official crush on Anderson Cooper. Just let me say once and for all, thank goodness! Okay, glad I got that off my chest. (Besides being an amazing, intelligent man, with an honest-to-goodness mission to serve the people, he's a hunk!)
Here's a picture of me with the three Practicum graduates at their show opening February 5 at Canessa Gallery in San Francisco. Left to right, Diane Goldstein, me, Gayle Muehring
and Ruth Brophy. Thanks to Ruth for keeping me up to date on all the information concerning the gallery situation in New York via Buck Naked's Deathwatch blog. A real eye opener for those of us out in the sticks. This is useful information, albeit the layout of Buck Naked's blog leaves a lot to be desired. I think I have a migraine from trying to read it. But do try to wade through and read it, there's a lot of useful information in there. The slow economy is making itself known in all corners and we are not immune to it as artists. Far from it. When folks cannot pay the mortgage or have become one of the 70,000 unemployed in the country - big expensive canvases fall by the wayside. Time for us to all hunker down and put our creative minds to use to find ways to weather the storm. And besides, I've always said that the gallery system wasn't the best way to make a living as a real working artist (read "not an art star").
Now music, something uplifting. Google has a new widget that I've just put on the blog up in the right hand corner "Tesia's Tunes". Just a little ditty to listen to while you read.
Here's a picture of me with the three Practicum graduates at their show opening February 5 at Canessa Gallery in San Francisco. Left to right, Diane Goldstein, me, Gayle Muehring
and Ruth Brophy. Thanks to Ruth for keeping me up to date on all the information concerning the gallery situation in New York via Buck Naked's Deathwatch blog. A real eye opener for those of us out in the sticks. This is useful information, albeit the layout of Buck Naked's blog leaves a lot to be desired. I think I have a migraine from trying to read it. But do try to wade through and read it, there's a lot of useful information in there. The slow economy is making itself known in all corners and we are not immune to it as artists. Far from it. When folks cannot pay the mortgage or have become one of the 70,000 unemployed in the country - big expensive canvases fall by the wayside. Time for us to all hunker down and put our creative minds to use to find ways to weather the storm. And besides, I've always said that the gallery system wasn't the best way to make a living as a real working artist (read "not an art star").Now music, something uplifting. Google has a new widget that I've just put on the blog up in the right hand corner "Tesia's Tunes". Just a little ditty to listen to while you read.
Barrack Obama, Gallery Deathwatch and Yo-yo Ma
It's been a crazy couple of months. I've been absent from the blog scene so I have a lot to catch up on. First off, WAHOOOOOOO, we have a new Prez and I am ecstatic. I won't even begin to spin off here into my wild ravings because I could go on at length about how happy Barrack Obama makes me. I have started watching CNN for crying out loud! I have an official crush on Anderson Cooper. Just let me say once and for all, thank goodness! Okay, glad I got that off my chest. (Besides being an amazing, intelligent man, with an honest-to-goodness mission to serve the people, he's a hunk!)
Here's a picture of me with the three Practicum graduates at their show opening February 5 at Canessa Gallery in San Francisco. Left to right, Diane Goldstein, me, Gayle Muehring and Ruth Brophy. Thanks to Ruth for keeping me up to date on all the information concerning the gallery situation in New York via Buck Naked's Deathwatch blog. A real eye opener for those of us out in the sticks. This is useful information, albeit the layout of Buck Naked's blog leaves a lot to be desired. I think I have a migraine from trying to read it. But do try to wade through and read it, there's a lot of useful information in there. The slow economy is making itself known in all corners and we are not immune to it as artists. Far from it. When folks cannot pay the mortgage or have become one of the 70,000 unemployed in the country - big expensive canvases fall by the wayside. Time for us to all hunker down and put our creative minds to use to find ways to weather the storm. And besides, I've always said that the gallery system wasn't the best way to make a living as a real working artist (read "not an art star").
Now music, something uplifting. Google has a new widget that I've just put on the blog up in the right hand corner "Tesia's Tunes". Just a little ditty to listen to while you read.
Here's a picture of me with the three Practicum graduates at their show opening February 5 at Canessa Gallery in San Francisco. Left to right, Diane Goldstein, me, Gayle Muehring
and Ruth Brophy. Thanks to Ruth for keeping me up to date on all the information concerning the gallery situation in New York via Buck Naked's Deathwatch blog. A real eye opener for those of us out in the sticks. This is useful information, albeit the layout of Buck Naked's blog leaves a lot to be desired. I think I have a migraine from trying to read it. But do try to wade through and read it, there's a lot of useful information in there. The slow economy is making itself known in all corners and we are not immune to it as artists. Far from it. When folks cannot pay the mortgage or have become one of the 70,000 unemployed in the country - big expensive canvases fall by the wayside. Time for us to all hunker down and put our creative minds to use to find ways to weather the storm. And besides, I've always said that the gallery system wasn't the best way to make a living as a real working artist (read "not an art star").Now music, something uplifting. Google has a new widget that I've just put on the blog up in the right hand corner "Tesia's Tunes". Just a little ditty to listen to while you read.
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