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| Frosty Morning |
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| Frosty Morning, detail |
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I wish you could see the tiny sparkles on the snow in this painting. When I was teaching a workshop in Texas recently, someone gave me some white, sparkly paper.
I accepted it graciously and thanked them, but thought to myself "I'll never use this." I have a bias against glitter, sequins and even sparkle - they just seem to belong in the craft genre, not fine art, which is what I aspire to.
I know I'm probably the worst person to say that since I love shiny stuff so much (think of the metals, foils, metal leaf, mica flake and even epoxy resin I use). But I draw the line at glitter. Maybe it's because you find it in the kid's craft section at Michaels.
So, as I was doing this winter scene, I spotted the glittery white paper, and thought Hmmmmmm. Well, it's in there, and it turns out I love the tiny sparkles. They look, for all the world, like light reflecting off snow crystals.
I did this painting as a demo for the class I'm teaching in mixed media trees. And YES, it has an epoxy coating over it too (MORE shiny!)
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8 comments:
Hi! Just want to say that I just love this painting! It has everything I like... including sparkles. :) Have you tried the golden glass bead medium? I've been playing around with it and it adds a lot of sparkle without being.. to sparkly.
I do have a question. What type of epoxy do you use?
Cheers!
Hi Madelaine,
I've seen the glass bead medium you mentioned, but haven't tried it yet. The epoxy I use is called EnviroTex Lite - available at Michaels.
beautiful works of art...
so unique so that i can identify without your signature on them...
This is just beautiful Carol!!! I love the sparkles!!!Like the icing on the cake:)
Totally love this! I once added sparkle to some mixed media pieces by painting with sparkly nail polish. It was a cool effect, and dried clear, except for the sparkles.
Gosh - this is FABULOUS and that's without seeing the snow sparkle. I bet it is triple gorgeous.
Your art is so amazing! Tuxture everywhere.
I wonder if you do any online workshop or online demo. I would be very interested and it would be great to try some of your techniques.
Thank you so much for sharing all of this fine art with us. I have not seen anything like some of these pieces before. They are amazing. Thanks again!
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