Category Archives: Background paper

Collage in the making

May 12, 2009 – 1:24 pm

There’s a lot on my mind these days. I feel I am at crossroads with many opportunities in front of me, which is both scary and exciting. But it also means that, while I am weighing options, I am not spending as much time as I’d like making things. This is a collage in the [...]

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New background experiment

May 7, 2009 – 12:15 pm

These days, I am busy making backgrounds for a little secret present I am making for my husband’s birthday. This one is an experiment in distressed image transfer. I started out by gessoing watercolour paper on both sides, then painted one side with an Ivory White wash. After that I layered several washes in Sienna, [...]

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Away we go

April 10, 2009 – 3:27 pm

And we are off! We are going to spend Easter in northern Sardinia, where we are going to visit the home of Italian Independence War leader Giuseppe Garibaldi (who happens to be one of Niccolo’s heroes at the moment). We have a family story linked to Garibaldi, as my ancestors on my maternal grandfather’s side [...]

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Background experiments

March 25, 2009 – 2:28 pm

When time is tight but I still feel the need of a creative outlet, I make backgrounds. That’s because I can paint backgrounds even when the children are around, while anything more than that would be asking for trouble. Seems that time was particularly tight lately because I have been making a lot of backgrounds [...]

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Challenge of the week: loosening up

March 17, 2009 – 2:40 pm

It won’t be unkind to myself if I say I am messy. Very messy. My study cum studio has towering, precarious piles of books and magazines, knotty stashes of ribbons, bursting folders crammed full of ephemera, and boxes and pieces of papers everywhere. It is partly because I never throw away anything, partly because I [...]

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