tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28710121100401922482024-03-06T01:34:13.023-06:00Carol KeeneCarol Keenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01243411212067920418noreply@blogger.comBlogger1078125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871012110040192248.post-82553578764006654782015-06-28T00:12:00.000-05:002015-06-28T00:12:00.766-05:00I'm moving my blog<div style="-webkit-line-break: after-white-space; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; word-wrap: break-word;">
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<span class="">Thank you so much for being a follower of my blog. I have enjoyed sharing my paintings, musings, and techniques with you. I want to advise you that I am moving it from Google Blogger to my own web site, </span><a class="" href="http://carolkeene.com/">CarolKeene.com</a><span class="">. Aside from the continuity and cleaner look that it offers, it also features: </span><div class="">
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">Please note, too, that I have changed my e-mail address: </span><a class="" href="mailto:art@carolkeene.com" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;">art@CarolKeene.com</a><br class="" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><br class="" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" /><blockquote class="" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px;" type="cite">
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Carol Keenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01243411212067920418noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871012110040192248.post-84776572313018073612015-06-22T00:12:00.000-05:002015-06-22T00:12:00.407-05:00First Rose of Summer <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<i>The white roses are blooming, but they've been beaten and bruised by the heavy rains at the Botanic Gardens. When I was there on Thursday, I found this one under shelter. She was sensual and beautifully fragrant next to a building. There were plenty of buds, so there will be more to photograph as the summer progresses. And it finally seems to be here! </i><br />
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I hadn't painted a rose in a long time. I was hankering to tackle one when I realized how beautiful my photo was, so I started her last night and finished her today. Painting her was as comfortable as being with an old friend. I just knew intuitively where to begin. <br />
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This rose, if she doesn't sell first, will be in a solo exhibit I have scheduled for the month of September. It will feature roses and chocolates, so you'll be seeing more of these and several new chocolate paintings. <br />
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Carol Carol Keenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01243411212067920418noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871012110040192248.post-44960654364913756452015-06-17T00:12:00.000-05:002015-06-17T00:12:00.048-05:00Phlox and Tulips<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<i>The wind blew through the garden, whipping the tulip heads about like they were watching a tennis match. The phlox, pretty much, remained stoic. Perhaps it was because they were against a wall, or maybe they just didn't like... tennis. </i><br />
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This one wears a lot more paint than I normally put on a canvas. I couldn't decide, then when I did, it got thicker and thicker. It is definitely not my thinnest work. <br />
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Carol Carol Keenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01243411212067920418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871012110040192248.post-49620154450716304882015-06-16T00:12:00.000-05:002015-06-16T22:26:08.098-05:00Tulips and Foxgloves<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Tulips and Foxgloves"<br />8" x 8"<br />Acrylic on panel </b></td></tr>
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<i>There was no time to paint from the photos I shared, while at my workshop. So once I mopped up the water that flowed in through the window well into my studio this morning, gathering dozens of paintings off the floor, I painted some of the gardens my students painted. </i><br />
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As the women discovered, I like to paint "spiky things." There will probably be more as I work through this series of knife paintings.<br />
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And here, my friends, is a <a href="http://carolkeene.com/workshop-video">video</a> (click on the word "video") of the workshop. Now that I know what is possible, I'll take better photos.<br />
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The music, "Angelina," was written and performed by our friend, John McHugh.<br />
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<br />Carol Keenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01243411212067920418noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871012110040192248.post-92063568287575025862015-06-15T01:00:00.000-05:002015-06-15T01:00:07.560-05:00<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>"Peony Demo"<br />6" x 6"<br />Acrylic on panel </b></td></tr>
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<i>I taught a two-day knife workshop in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin last week. The ten attendees were, for the most part, watercolorists with a willingness to learn to: #1 paint vertically #2 paint with thick acrylics #3 use a painting knife and #4 paint on a black background. None of these things were at all like what they were accustomed to. </i><br />
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Below are two photos. One is from day two of my workshop. The women are holding their second paintings. Many of them began a third or fourth — wishing for another few hours of painting time, or perhaps another day. </div>
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The last photo is of me with Texas artist, Qiang Huang. Qiang was teaching a workshop in the neighboring town of Lake Zurich at the Mainstreet Art Center. Since he had traveled so far, and I have followed his blog and his career for years, I stopped by during his lunch break to meet him. His oils are inspiring and Qiang is getting the recognition he so readily deserves. Director Frankie Johnson brings in the BEST artists from around the country. I've taken several workshops there. Find out more about Qiang <a href="http://qiang-huang.blogspot.com/">here</a>. Learn more about Mainstreet Art Center <a href="http://www.mainstreetartcenter.com/">here</a>.<br />
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Watch for a musical slideshow of my own workshop on tomorrow's post. My husband and I finished it tonight, but we would like to save it for tomorrow. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Day two of my knife workshop </b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Meeting Qiang Huang</b></td></tr>
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Carol Keenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01243411212067920418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871012110040192248.post-87963846953373647042015-05-30T00:12:00.000-05:002015-05-30T00:12:00.476-05:00Foxgloves <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>"Foxgloves"<br />8" x 6"<br />Acrylic on canvas panel</b></td></tr>
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<i>This must be one of those perfect springs for foxgloves. I've been to the Chicago Botanic Gardens twice in the past month and have been treated to a display of beauty I've not witnessed there before. I have more reference photos of these spiked plants from this year alone, than all the years I've been documenting flower gardens. </i><br />
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How fortunate for me! Plants like this are my favorites to paint. AND this style of garden painting is one I will be teaching in my knife workshop in Chippewa Falls in about ten days. If you're in the area and interested, let me know. I may still have room in my class. <br />
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Carol<br />
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<a href="http://dailypainters.com/">Dailypainters.com</a> Carol Keenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01243411212067920418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871012110040192248.post-78239843577356722332015-05-27T00:12:00.000-05:002015-05-27T00:12:00.467-05:00Flame Froth <div style="text-align: left;">
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<i>I picked up a couple of six inch ceramic tiles at my local thrift store. The ink had colored my four inch tile from my workshop so beautifully, I wanted more.</i><br />
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I wiped this piece five times before liking what was happening. Turns out working on tiles is even more quirky than painting on Yupo. And titling this one was difficult, too!<br />
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Carol<br />
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<br />Carol Keenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01243411212067920418noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871012110040192248.post-89707244070809056282015-05-26T00:12:00.000-05:002015-05-26T00:12:00.211-05:00Fire In the Sky <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<i>This is another painting that began as a simple, single-layered piece... meaning that all the color was dropped on the wet alcohol on the first pass. It was "nice" but it wasn't fab. </i><br />
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I disrupted the niceness of the first layer by adding multiple layers on top. If you recall from an earlier blog I mentioned that when wet ink pushes away dry ink it forms "fences." Well, the dark parts of any of these images are made by stacked up transparent colors. There is no black or so-called dark inks. They are all highly transparent, beautiful colors — just bunched up on top of one another to form dark.<br />
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Carol<br />
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<i>This was a peaceful, wash of less than dramatic pastel colors when I brought it home from my workshop in Eau Claire. I nearly posted it, but wondered what would happen if... </i><br />
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<br />Carol Keenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01243411212067920418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871012110040192248.post-42720828579995701482015-05-24T00:12:00.000-05:002015-05-24T00:12:00.818-05:00Froot Baskit <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>"Froot Baskit"<br />11" x 14"<br />Alcohol Ink on Yupo </b></td></tr>
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<i>I turned this piece every which way as I dropped ink and alcohol onto the Yupo. I also blew the ink around with a very large-bore straw. It moved the ink, but didn't send it splattering. Not until I photographed it and rotated it did I realize there was "subject matter" in the mass/mess of color. But it, like the spelling of the title, is a little awry. </i><br />
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<i>It started out as a simple painting, but I had time, time to wait around to see what would happen... IF. There were a lot of "ifs" in this piece. I couldn't even tell you what happened between daiquiris and dinner, or baklava and bedtime. But I don't think I turned it into mud. </i><br />
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"It is what it is,"says my friend, Mary. <br />
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<i>I was building a blue painting when I picked up a bottle of "citrus" green instead, and placed a droplet into the blue. Yikes! It pushed the drying blue into a hard dark edge, but looked kind of interesting. Then I intentionally dropped several drips of "cranberry" onto the blue and formed a little blue island surrounded by red. </i><div>
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<i>As this one progressed, I kept adding more and more color to the already-drying puddles. It's what made so many hard edges. A spritz here and there made the small dots. It seemed to have a landscape quality to it, but land that had been ravished, sort of earthquake-like. </i><br />
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I really had to relinquish control of my normal style of painting during these three days. I submitted to a seldom-used part of my brain to make most of these alcohol paintings.<br />
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<i>I became bolder as I dripped ink onto the alcohol-moistened surface. I combined a couple of different reds and perhaps a droplet of orange with three drips of yellow, in this instance. I allowed the puddles to dry without guiding or disturbing them. I did mist the top of the painting with alcohol, causing the pinkish splatters. </i><br />
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I have a few more ink paintings to show you before moving on. Flowers are blooming in my zip code and they are beckoning me to uncap my oils.<br />
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<a href="http://dailypainters.com/">Dailypainters.com</a>Carol Keenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01243411212067920418noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871012110040192248.post-2326994819883260262015-05-19T00:12:00.000-05:002015-05-19T00:12:00.591-05:00Bosco<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<i>Now for something completely different. I was commissioned to paint this dog for a friend as a surprise for his wife's Bat Mitzvah. Because I have a dog similar to this, I accepted the challenge. I knew that my squiggly marks would make Bosco come to life nicely. I made a couple of tiny changes, like white dots in the eyes, after this photo was taken, but the client and his children loved what they got. </i><br />
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I shy away from painting specifics — like pet and people portraits. A sixteenth of an inch mistake can turn Bosco into Bella. Roses and peonies don't get offended if their petals are a wee bit askance.<br />
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Royal blue has fallen from favor in fashion, home dec and the auto industry, but I found it fun to work with as I painted. <br />
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Stamp, spray, watch and wait. That's how this one went. I dropped ink into the areas where there are hard edges and wiped away some of the lighter edges with an alcohol-dampened Q-Tip.<br />
I had fun the entire three days. <br />
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<i>When I put the yellow ink down on top of a glaze of blue, the lines were as fine as pencil lead. But as it dried, the yellow pushed away the blue, mingled with some of it and made the image you see here. </i><br />
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One more image remains in my bag of tricks. Oh, I painted a LOT more than these, but I will save them to post when I have a large project on my easel. <br />
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<br />Carol Keenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01243411212067920418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871012110040192248.post-16215185494700532212015-05-16T00:12:00.001-05:002015-05-16T00:12:00.083-05:00You're So Vein<div style="text-align: left;">
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<i>This painting turned out to look like a cross section of some fantasy place. It just happened as I played at the workshop a week ago. </i><br />
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I had spritzed, which made tiny dots, then I pressed the crumpled clear wrap in which my pad of Yupo had been sealed, and stopped messing with it as the ink dried (really fast). The pathway to draw veining with a fine-point Sharpie presented itself. So I drew little coils along the trail and knew a little of that would go a long way.<br />
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Carol<br />
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<a href="http://dailypainters.com/">Dailypainters.com</a>Carol Keenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01243411212067920418noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871012110040192248.post-75990931679555873672015-05-15T00:12:00.000-05:002015-05-15T00:12:00.091-05:00Embrace<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<i>Oh, boy, you must think I've abandoned my oils for alcohol ink. Well, I haven't. In fact, while these are posting, I'm working on commission pieces, including a dog portrait! Yes. I'm doing a pastel painting of a pooch. </i><br />
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Here is a combination of many of the techniques I learned from Pat Hamm. My work is nothing like hers. It would be almost impossible for me to duplicate her efforts in this medium. Nope, hers are hers, mine are quite definitely mine.<br />
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Carol <br />
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<a href="http://dailypainters.com/">Dailypainters.com</a>Carol Keenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01243411212067920418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871012110040192248.post-63589076222946278752015-05-14T00:12:00.000-05:002015-05-14T00:12:00.643-05:00Greenly <div style="text-align: left;">
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<i>I fully intended to do more to this... after lunch on Tuesday of last week, but when I got back and saw the edges where the green and yellow had met and became fast friends, I left it alone. </i><br />
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It's hard to leave a small painting alone that has the potential to become a learning experience, but it happened several times during the workshop and THAT alone was a part of my growth. "Don't dink with it," a phrase my friend and I threw back and forth when we painted murals together, kept playing in my head.<br />
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Carol<br />
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<a href="http://dailypainters.com/">Dailypainters.com</a>Carol Keenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01243411212067920418noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871012110040192248.post-85039793381476316492015-05-13T00:12:00.000-05:002015-05-13T00:12:00.208-05:00Tiny Cabbages <div style="text-align: left;">
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<i>I didn't intend to mess with this piece, but as three sections began to dry, I took a brush with just a few eyelash hairs in it and dragged the ink around to make three little cabbage-like images. </i><br />
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It's a small piece, but interesting to look at if you get up close. Would be cute, framed and on a table easel.<br />
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Carol<br />
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<a href="http://dailypainters.com/">Dailypainters.com</a>Carol Keenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01243411212067920418noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871012110040192248.post-6953170341695082232015-05-12T00:12:00.000-05:002015-05-12T00:12:00.182-05:00Flower-ish <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<i>Anyone who knows my subject matter preferences, knows that I love to paint realistic, close-up, single bloom flowers. Roses in particular. So you can imagine how difficult it was for me NOT to touch the inks as they formed what, to me looked like a flower. Okay, squint, and maybe it'll look like one to you, too. </i><br />
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If the flower image doesn't do it for you, just accept this piece as it is; what happens when ink droplets are placed on top of another color at varying degrees of dryness. See the soft yellow edge? It was placed on the red while the red was still wet. The hard edged yellow pushed the dry red ink out of the way as it spread, making a ridge (like plowed snow) of the underlying color. Learning by doing!<br />
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Carol<br />
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<br />Carol Keenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01243411212067920418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871012110040192248.post-18969509325200203722015-05-11T00:12:00.001-05:002015-05-11T00:12:00.552-05:00Hold the Blue<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<i>The red and yellow ink was moving around the Yupo when I began stamping. I was about to add blue, but thought better of it. </i><br />
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Restraint prevailed in two ways. I didn't add blue and I didn't spritz this one with pure alcohol from a mister (as I found I loved to do!).<br />
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Carol<br />
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<br />Carol Keenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01243411212067920418noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871012110040192248.post-26894299547140525922015-05-10T10:54:00.000-05:002015-05-10T10:54:12.457-05:00Tile<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<i>Happy Mother's Day. This looks like a something my own mother would have liked. She adored aqua. </i><br />
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This is another ground I used for the alcohol ink — a four inch ceramic tile. No, it doesn't smear, but if I were to use it for, say, a coaster, I would want to spray it with a couple of coats of clear acrylic. <br />
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Love,<br />
Carol<br />
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Dailypainters.comCarol Keenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01243411212067920418noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871012110040192248.post-39702939690612642282015-05-09T00:12:00.000-05:002015-05-09T00:12:00.241-05:00Marks<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<i>I was free to explore on my own, after the demo, so I deferred to my primary colors. I feel safe with good ole red, yellow and blue.</i><br />
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The surface was wet with ink, so I applied clear alcohol to the foam stamp and impressed it into the blue. It picked up color. I put it back on the surface and impressed and picked up again, moving across the page. Then I added droplets of yellow in the whitened areas and finally red in the stamping closest to us. Entirely a learning experience.<br />
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Carol<br />
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