Welcome to my blog where I post recent photos of my work and journal about my life as an artist. I live and work in Tulsa Oklahoma. It is from my early life in the mountains that I developed a love of the natural world which now includes vast prairies and endless skies. To contact me about a purchase all in lowercase letters you can write me at margee And then my last name @Gmail. Opening the web version of this blog gives the opportunity to purchase any of my how to books/videos, etc..
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Saturday, February 13, 2016
Monday, February 08, 2016
oops, I ripped your painting :-(.... And How To Repair a Torn Painting.
Well my husband was cleaning up and moving stuff the other day and something heavy fell onto my painting that was leaning against the wall. I had painted it on a less expensive stretched canvas. I have noticed these canvases are very easy to tear, almost like paper. I still have some that I bought on sale once upon a time, and will probably continue to use them but try, in the future to spend a few dollars and get the better canvas, even for class demos. This painting began as a class demo that I really liked and finished it out. Well not wishing to crop out and re stretch this canvas, I sent my husband to Home Depot to buy some of that aprox /1/3 inch masonite type board. Sorry I can't remember the proper name for it but I know many of my artist friends have been using it and gluing a nice linen on top for painting so I figure it would work to glue an already finished painting. So that is what I did. Here is the process:
The tear :-(
Get a big brush, mix up some wood glue with a little water and apply to both surfaces.
This is what it looked like after I put it back together. It took 3 applications of oil paint to kind of fill in the tear to bring it slightly above the surface which was then sanded. After sanding, I then re painted that portion back to its pretty self. It is now a much stronger surface than it was before the tearing. Yippie!
Thursday, February 04, 2016
Octoberfest Ferris Wheel
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font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This painting was inspired by a photo that a friend posted ( Thanks, Dennis! )from an evening at Tulsa's Octoberfest. I loved the sunset behind the ferris wheel. I did this as both a demo and an experiment in my adult oil painting class. I wanted to see if the old watercolor technique of using a liquid masking product would work on oil. IT DID!... I painted the background yellow everywhere and allowed it to dry and then added the masking product to mask out the lighted metal bars and lighting around the tent and then painted right on top of it, the sky. It was fun to peal it off and see the revealed bright yellow lines beneath the deep blue, black sky.
font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This painting was inspired by a photo that a friend posted ( Thanks, Dennis! )from an evening at Tulsa's Octoberfest. I loved the sunset behind the ferris wheel. I did this as both a demo and an experiment in my adult oil painting class. I wanted to see if the old watercolor technique of using a liquid masking product would work on oil. IT DID!... I painted the background yellow everywhere and allowed it to dry and then added the masking product to mask out the lighted metal bars and lighting around the tent and then painted right on top of it, the sky. It was fun to peal it off and see the revealed bright yellow lines beneath the deep blue, black sky.
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