NEW ART PROJECTS GOIN ON?

re the barn? hard to see, odd shape or off perspective.

yah, he recognized it by the old trick of holding it up in front of a mirror. That accentuated the error. His color palette has always been dynamite. Hes been trained by a series of "itinerant" teachers throughout his life. He also took a few mueum courses at Philly and has been a fulltime employed artist with a lot of his work as illustration.

Anybody hav any experience with Maroger oil medium? (Its aka as MEGILP). Ive been told that its a great way to insert atmospheric prspective nd helping glazings to dry more quickly? I swear Ive never even herd of it till today. Ive been doing some pleinaire of the By and I ran into three other pleinair folks, who were former art students from a foreign country (Canada)

just found a new art supply dealer that has a very large selection of various art conservation supplies. Its a website called talas (dot) com.

Thanks, will look.

I bought some stuff to remove "foxing' from old drawings etc. I have a whole set of drawings by Earle poole, he a guy I used to work for for two years when I was in high school .
I got thee drawings in a garage sale of one of his relatives and many were a bit spotted with this foxing fungus. I had them in plastic document bags with a document anti-fungal but I was reding about how to actually remove any of the staining using specific conservation chemicals

I need to get some polishing pumice to mix with gesso so I can spry a surface onto masonite boards to use as a gritty surface for pastels. ANYBODY done any fine furniture polishing or pastels on a rough (sand) paper

Not me, but I'll be interested in the responses.

I dont think we hve any artsy folks on here any more. People call in with those "paintings" and posters by refrigerator artists.. Maybe I should find an art line on the web

If you do, let me know.

I did some pastels when still in studio art night school; the pastels nothing to write home about, as they say. 30 courses, I was nutso, loved it all, but pastels didn't get much of that time, and later I got into oil painting. In my later work life, I did a lot of hand drafting, and presentation drawings. At home, I stuck to painting as my thing.
Still I can like knowing the how to's of stuff.

I do have some older how-to art books, which, the truth, I have barely opened, and in any case I doubt they go into the matter of playing with different materials, particularly those that aren't the usual art store products. Still, a good art shop might have some know-how in this. I've found those kind of stores a few times over the years. (I don't mean chain stores.)

Hey, you might ask Realjohnboy - he's owned an art store in Charlottesville VA nearly forever, and it's one of those one of a kind stores. If he doesn't know, maybe one of his long time staff folks does.

I found a furniture polish source for FFF grade pumice and "rottenstone" (Which is a mix of marble dust and pumice).
Now I have to see how UPS can get it from Minnesota without some kind of "HAZMAT" determination (Its a dust ya know)

FOUND IT!!

Golden Artist's Colors makes a fine to coarse pumice gel.

All right, then!!

Glad you found the golden stuff. It makes an interesting texture, but I never thought of using it as a pastel ground. Pastels are one of the mediums that never stuck with me all that well.

Nice to see you, Aldistar.

A friend told me about it and she uses it to be able to make pencil marks and lies on top of her oil paintings.

Nice to be seen. I've been around, just not posting all that much. Hope everyone is well?

Since you posted , Ill bring us up to date on my pastel ground.
I tried GOLDEN's product and found it to be somehat expensive. I then found some nice ground pumice and marbl dust at a paint warehouse. I made several mixes of various color latex paint and loaded it into a paint sprayer (with a few tsp of water with which to "thin it" a bit). I spray as if Im doing a car fender. KEEP THE trigger down and extend your spray over the boundaries of your paper . Just swing the airgun in parallel ascending sweeps (DO NOT STOP AND RETRACE YOUR PATH S THAT WILL CAUSE A PILEUP OF PIGMENT THAT YOU WILL NOTICE AFTER ITS DRY)

Nice even sweeps and this becomes a really great ground. You can use ny color of latex so your ground will be whatever color base you want.

Works great!!

Oh my, it's been so long! How is everyone? Still arting away I hope? I'd love to see what people are working on. Here are a couple of my latest pieces done with ink and watercolor. I went with an art deco style for these. "Fall Fae' and 'Winter Fae'.

your pins didnt come through. Maybe Im blocked I dont know.
Ive been doing a lot of plein aire. Right now Im unable to do much woods walking and carrying stuff till my leg heals some more