Follow Up to "Lucky 13 Surprise Materials in Art"

As an artist, I love using acrylic paints the most, along with the close second encaustics (beeswax paints). I have a small collection of oil and watercolor paints as well as pigmented inks…but keep returning to acrylics. First love in this case lasts the longest!

A few weeks ago, I posted "Lucky 13 Surprise Materials in Art." Jason, a blogger friend and awesome photographer, asked me some questions. As always, his questions keep me down to earth. Sometimes, I forget and slip into "art jargon." Here are his questions followed by my answers: 

1. Why is it that you choose to use these materials in your art and not just the standard oils, watercolors etc? 

The materials change the quality and/or use of the paint. The beach sand, sawdust, bandages, white glue, tea, and instant coffee give textures and react to the paint in different ways. For example, beach sand absorbs paint while white glue resists paint. Tea and coffee stain. Bandages give raised grid lines under the paint. White glue also gives lines, as thick, thin, broken, or pooled as wanted.

2. What is it about these items that you feel adds to your art? Is it the texture or does the media play a more active roll (such as sand for beach paintings etc) ? 

Some items just make a more interesting piece of art, for instance, using a broken concrete roof tile instead of a canvas. The cut/recycled wood is for use with the encaustics (beeswax paint) and is another way of being "green" (or as Andy my fiance' would say, being cheap, LOL).  Sometimes the theme for the art influences what I use, like beach sand in a beach painting, but that is infrequent. What is used in my art truly depends on the materials at hand and my mood.

3. Another category that was not included in Jason's questions, only because it did not occur to him yet, is "how do you use some of these items?" Some of the items in my list are used to "help" me paint. For instance, the rubber stamps, cardboard, and white glue help design and composition. The lamination film acts like a printing block for me, creating paint designs transferred to paper that I later manipulate. The recycled office paper has been used as a under-drawing for encaustic paintings as well as wrapping paper to deliver an art piece. 

Special thanks to Jason Eldridge for his questions. If you have questions, please ask! I will either answer your comment directly from my post or create a new post like this one to answer you. 

Palm Tree on Concrete - 2009 - about 10 x 8 inches - $30

Smiles,

Angeline Marie of

Angeline Marie Fine Art

Yesterday was a great art day!

Ok, so I've only done one thing off my Artist Entrepreneur Institute list this week, but it is ONE more thing I've done! I have my "doing business as" name registered. Next, a few more, but it probably won't happen this weekend....Then again, with online services being 24/7/365, maybe one more.

After packing a few boxes, I started calling moving companies. After doing that, I gave up and painted. The bed project is rolling, and was paused due to not having the right sandpaper. Who'd thought sandpaper would pause a project! I ventured on to miniatures.

I completed four miniatures. One is on a piece of concrete roof tile, second on a piece of driftwood found at the beach, third on scrap wood from Ed, and fourth on scrap window blinds. One larger, about 16 by 16 in. was begun. I relaxed and had fun, with all my materials around, stereo blasting some rock....

I'm off to the beach & party today. Have a great July 4th!!! Recall where you are, and where you could've been (me, on a communist island, with little access to art supplies & a big mouth that gets me in trouble).

Angeline-Marie

For Ed's truck go check out his site http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596804251/?CMP=ILC-MMh0me

For me: www.angelinemarie.net updated last night.

Bed Pieces Project

Ok. Thanks to George E. Gadson's "force field analysis" sheets, no more excuses. I have time - and already have an end result in mind. (Yes, George was a presenter at Artist Entrepreneur Institute!)

I was commissioned to work on bed pieces, literally. The bed is an antique, and it is beautiful wood, but the owner would like to pass it on as art pieces. They are going to turn out amazing, with scenes from her home (she lives on the canal in Key Largo - what a tough life, eh? Imagine the view!)

Their are four pieces in total: two side pieces, one footer, one header. The footer and two side pieces fit in my car. Thanks to Andy, the header can go any where (but I don't like to abuse him that way).

I began the two side pieces last week. The center piece of each side is framed, as you can see. Both center pieces were treated with clear gloss acrylic gel. Since the sky and water are going to fade into the wood "sky," it was best to have the wood already treated. Next, I took water and acrylics and mixed in the sky. The wood still shows through, and still looks beautiful. Notice that I taped off the outside edges. The outside edges will later be varnished carefully and act as a frame for each.

Stay tuned!

Angeline Marie

www.angelinemarie.net

DEERING ESTATE PHOTOS, 1 OF 2 parts

These are are some of the small paintings that were completed during the Deering Estate Event. The original blog post from 4-25-09 follows this, because I have yet to learn how to arrange all of

All of the these a are “recycled” supports,

except for one that is on canvas (first on left). All are less than 5x7 inches. If you want more information, let me know!