'Painting'


Aargh…

Shiver me timbers. A pirate lass it be for my next paintin’…

Victoria Final

Done!

One challenge when painting is figuring out when each area is finished. I find it fascinating that some areas require only a few brush strokes, while others take hours to refine. The best example of “knowing when to stop” is the glass matte paintings that were created in Hollywood before the digital age. When […]

Victoria Step 3

Getting closer…

Here’s the Painter brush I use almost exclusively…

It’s a Circular, Soft Cover Acrylic with super-low Opacity and Resat with no Bleed. Feels very much like real acrylic to me. The main advantage, of course, is that the paint never really dries. The only other brush I use is a standard Smudge Blender. That’s it. […]

Slight detour…

Okay, I still have a day before I leave for San Diego. I live in Boulder City, just outside Las Vegas; hence, it’s about a 5-hour drive…
Meanwhile, I’ve set aside a little leisure time to paint. I recently started painting again after a long hiatus. I was very happy to see that I […]