The Artistic Biker

Art traveling and journaling

Tag: tips and tricks

  • Snails and The Blank Canvas (BCS)

    This week’s two themes in the studio were snails (because that’s what came up on the randomartigraph) and dealing with blank canvas syndrome. You may or may not know this about me, but I love arting about the tiny things, especially the things that are usually connsidered slimy. But it’s not slime. It’s mucus. Except…

  • 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,…

  • Atmospheric perception

    On Friday, Jeff Knecht and I had a critique session in which he mentioned that the trees on the left of this sketch were difficult to distinguish.  He thought they were one tree and thought that the details were a bit jumbled.  My lovely young bride and I had been talking about that very thing…