I like projects. Woodworking, painting, collage art work, making things in general

[Dolly]

My husband enjoys painting water colours and has taught me, but I'm not much good. We both enjoy pottering about in the garden and D-I-Y projects. I am an avid knitter! Socks on 4 needles and Aran knitting on 2. I crochet and also love needlepoint. We don't have a dog at the moment. 44yrs with at least 1 dog at a time means that we really miss them. But our lifestyle has changed and we go away so much it wouldn't be fair to have one. So we love babysitting other people's. Merlin and Pebbles are 2 spaniels we have know since they were pups. Freddy is a terrier we also have know since he was small and Trevor is a new friend a French bulldog, full of personality.

 

[Keesha]

I belong to an endangered animal group on facebook and have been painting 95% animals for about 5 years now. But Ive been exploring cold wax and oil. Ive painted and completed two painting and these were wedding gifts. And Ive got 3 more in the works. My great grandson paints with me when he comes and stays. He has been painting since he was about a year old. It started out as hand and feet printing to abstracts and now he is asking to paint specific subjects. I sketch them out and he paints. However, he is in the first grade now and I dont see h8m as much. And he lives 1 1/2 hrs away. Ive got a blog I try to update and do from time to time. I love the feel of oil on my paint brush I guess. I also think acrylics are great to use like waterrcolor but harder to lift up the mark if im on paper. So I better get it right the first time.  I painted my 7 year old granddaughter (she was adopted by a couple with children in Arizona and they looked me up. And she asked me to paint my granddaughter. )and her parents have asked me to paint all of their children. But there are 5 more children and im not commiting to that task. Life can be messy and confusing. But I do not want to spend months work on 5 portraits when i wont get paid or have much interest in who these children are. Ack I went off on a tangent. Lol

And you, how do you control watercolors? They can be very hard to. And, learning to control it takes a lifetime. I can control oil and acrylic much better. What do you like to paint?

Hi Pauline,
Cold wax and oil sounds very interesting. Most of my pictures are landscaping pictures but some are churches and animals.
Ive got a thread somewhere of my paintings. I’ll add it if you’d like to have a look.

I paint on 150 to 300 pound water colour paper but got acrylics I use stretched canvas. The great thing about canvas and using acrylics is that if you mess up you can let it dry and paint over it which you can’t do with watercolours.

Most of my watercolours I do on wet prestretched paper. The wetter the paper the more and faster the flow of colour. It’s easier to work with the colour than try and get the colour to work for you; especially when first starting. Sometimes adding salt to the edges adds a really cool effect and can be a useful technique.

With watercolours you really do use the water. Quite often the coloured water will sit there and look like it will never sink in but it does and if your paper is heavy enough it won’t warp but if it’s too light you’ll need to stretch and tape it first.

https://www.seniorforums.com/showthread.php/35252-Some-of-my-Artwork!

and here’s some of my woodworking
https://www.seniorforums.com/showth...s-Everyone-Needs-One!-So-What-s-Your-Favorite

 

[Pauline1954]

Keesha, try starch and alcohol. I heard about the salt but hve never used it. Oil has been my primary medium for several years now.

I will post a couple oil and cold was. I enjoy it a lot. But i paint in layer sessions. I will find the two I painted for my girlfriend.

Hi Pauline,
Cold wax and oil sounds very interesting. Most of my pictures are landscaping pictures but some are churches and animals.
Ive got a thread somewhere of my paintings. I’ll add it if you’d like to have a look.

I paint on 150 to 300 pound water colour paper but got acrylics I use stretched canvas. The great thing about canvas and using acrylics is that if you mess up you can let it dry and paint over it which you can’t do with watercolours.

Most of my watercolours I do on wet prestretched paper. The wetter the paper the more and faster the flow of colour. It’s easier to work with the colour than try and get the colour to work for you; especially when first starting. Sometimes adding salt to the edges adds a really cool effect and can be a useful technique.

With watercolours you really do use the water. Quite often the coloured water will sit there and look like it will never sink in but it does and if your paper is heavy enough it won’t warp but if it’s too light you’ll need to stretch and tape it first.

https://www.seniorforums.com/showthread.php/35252-Some-of-my-Artwork!

and here’s some of my woodworking
https://www.seniorforums.com/showth...s-Everyone-Needs-One!-So-What-s-Your-Favorite

 

[Pauline1954]

300 pound is hugely sturdy. Its almost thick as canvas ive got a couple of 300pd wc paintings given to me by my former art instructor.

But ive never painted on it. Its expensive. When i painted in acrylics i used Fabriano Uno. An Italian product they no longer make. I loved the stuff.