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Category Archives: acrylic
T is for Texture: A-to-Z Challenge
Where would we be without texture? Click on the details and look at the texture, not the color. I am now agreeing to the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International License, which you can learn more about by visiting the … Continue reading
R is for Repurposing: A-to-A Challenge
I stumbled on this and after starting, thought, why not do it as a mini class? A friend sent me a fridge magnet, and while I was popping it onto our fridge, I realized we had a couple of old … Continue reading
Posted in acrylic, art, class, collage, creativity, handmade paper, painting, process
Tagged craft, fish, Golden Acrylic Paints, horse, magnets, Pitt pens, recycle, repurpose, upcycle
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Q is for Quinacridone: A-to-Z Challenge
“You’ll not see nothing like the mighty ‘Quins’!” I hear Bob Dylan’s tune as I gush about the family of paint colors called quinacridone (kwin awk’ ri doan). I first encountered them in Golden Acrylics. They became a staple in … Continue reading
M is for Mistakes: A-to-Z Challenge
It’s a cautionary tale. I tend to jump right in and not think about chemistry (which I was pretty good at) when it comes to paints and shellac and all kinds of wet colorful things. When I was first painting … Continue reading
Posted in acrylic, color, creativity, painting, process
Tagged Golden Acrylic Paints, mermaids, mistake, mixology, retreat, shimmer
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H is for Hematite: A-to-Z Challenge
I had long used Golden Acrylic’s Micaceous Iron Oxide, part of their Iridescent colors, straight out of the tub or in glazes, shown above. It is this delicious heavy shimmering charcoal in a pot. In Horse with Red Ball, above, … Continue reading
Posted in acrylic, color, painting, watercolor
Tagged Daniel Smith watercolors, Golden Acrylic Paints, hematite, horse, Micaceous Iron Oxide, Primatek, red ball
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G is for Granulating: A-to-Z Challenge
I had no idea what granulating paint was until I began using watercolors. And you have to know or you get wonky things happening that you didn’t want, like the funny paint around Frank’s nose, below. Notice how most of … Continue reading
Posted in acrylic, color, oil paint, painting, watercolor
Tagged granulating, ground paints
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E is for Environmentally Friendly: A-to-Z Challenge
I’m talking toxicity versus environmentally friendly and how to read labels. Above are three labels: Golden’s “AP Nontoxic”, Gamblin’s information label stated clearly, and an older tube of Cotman Cadmiun Red that shows a Health Label requiring no labeling (again, … Continue reading
Four Siblings: Part of “My Family” Series
Many moons ago I was part of a year-long study group with Brugh Joy, an amazing spiritual teacher. We were given an exercise to get to know our ancestors and family, and write about it. I painted it. I painted … Continue reading
Posted in acrylic, art, creativity, painting, series
Tagged Brugh Joy, family, My Family series, siblings
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Emotional Art: Images as a Dream
A moonth stretches out in front of me, 1994. My former husband is in South America, screwing a woman he met there on the pretense of traveling with a male friend, my friend too. (No longer my friend too.) The … Continue reading
Posted in acrylic, art, journal, painting, process, series, writing
Tagged catholicism, childhood hurts, deadbeat dad, dreams, fear, mother, shadow
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PROCESS: Patrick in my Art, or Detox Series 1995
In 1995 I was painting a hundred hearts, and in the middle of that series, my brother Patrick called from Seattle with hiccups that would not end, terrified, and said he was on his way to my house, hundreds of … Continue reading
My Palm Trees On Redbubble!
I love palms and love my own palm trees. It is odd in this day to hear an artist say they love this or that, but I can’t lie — I love my palms. It is hard to part with … Continue reading
Posted in acrylic, art, cards, prints, series
Tagged beach, framed, greeting cards, palm, palm tree greeting cards, prints, redbubble, reproductions, resort, shore, t-shirt
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Little Folded Storybooks
This is a wonderful way to tell a little story… storybook art! I can tell a visual story in 16 to 18 inches. I am reminded of seeing storyboards in the studios when I worked at 20th Century Fox or … Continue reading
Process: Repeat
I tend to repeatedly paint the same image. An image takes hold of me and I paint it in various colors and mediums. Why? It’s not about “getting it right.” I need a strong attraction to a certain form … Continue reading
Honu Book-Card
I am enjoying classes; it has been so long since I’ve taken a class! A fellow participant from Vienna commented that the classes were loosening her up from University, allowing her creativity to flow. It is certainly doing that for … Continue reading
Posted in acrylic, art, drawing, process
Tagged folded cards, Honu, Pitt pens, sea turtles, starfish
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D.Katie Powell Art 