Category: Crafty

  • Art Journal Inverted St. Patty’s Day

    Last week on The Artistic Biker Live! I used opposite colors and then used my computer to invert them and paste the resulting image in the corner You can watch the video at The You Tube, or in the embedded player below:    

  • U-stream and Podcast Update 19AUG2010

    This week I’ll be talking with Juriaan, a freelance artist in Seattle, WA. ”Jay” and I will be discussing the importance in a strong drawing foundation

  • Experimentation Final!

    For the past few weeks I have been posting on Monday’s Discovery about my attempts to turn a glue moistener into a large waterbrush.  Then intent was to be able to shape the sponges and fill them with the color paint I wanted to lay down quickly.  In playing with these, however, I have found…

  • Experimentation Part II

    And welcome to week 2 of my playing around with a glue moistener bottle to make a tree sponge.  When I saw these bottles on the rack at Wal*Mart a week or so ago, I immediately began wondering if they could be used in watercolors, specifically if they could be modified to make trees.  What…

  • Experimentation Part 1

    As I was walking through the stationary and art supplies section of our local Wal*Mart, I happened upon these little bottles with a sponge on top.  They are for moistening glue on stamps and envelopes.  I wondered, though, if they might be used as a type of waterbrush.  I immediately began thinking about washing paint,…