What is Gold Leaf

Today's #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques is about gold leaf. First off, the gold leaf I use isn't actual gold, though those who use gold leaf in cuisine, use real gold leaf. Gold leaf is a very, very thin leaflet of substance. It is so thinly layered that each sheet falls a part easily....

First of all, May the Forth Be With You!!! (haha)

Today's #ThirdDegreeThursday question is a spiritual one. Hopefully you won't be too shy to not answer. It's a funny thing as most people don't like talking about it. "What happens after we die?" As for me, I believe I am a spirit... a spiritual bei...

Last Wednesday I went to the Dentist Specialist and I had surgery on a tooth. Like I've said before, they have mastered the pain management in dentistry, but have yet to master the sound (of the drills). It was interesting to hear when the drill met bone in my surgery! Needless to say, all went well...

#TuesdayToolsAndTechniques is all about me sharing art supplies and techniques with you. Today I am sharing gesso. Gesso comes in a variety of colours; gesso is clear, white and black. You can add colour to the white or clear, and create a base with the colour you want. Gesso is used as a base for y...

On this #FridayFinds we come upon something artsy; it is a magazine called Feel Free, I didn't know what the magazine was about. I saw the hand-lettered font in its title and loved it. As I picked the magazine up from the array of magazines, I truly did not know what a unique magazine I had in my ha...

For #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques we will be looking at Fluid Acrylics. The earliest recorded artist to use paint pouring techniques was David Alfaro Siqueiros in the 1930's. Famous abstract artist, but not famous at the time, Jackson Pollack was a student of David Siqueiros. Knowing this connection, y...

This #FridayFinds is already found. Being that it is Good Friday today, and many are gathering together with family and friends. Perhaps our greatest blessing is our family and friends. They are with us during our highs and comfort us during our lows...in fact, they encourage us (kick our butts) whe...

Not all things are the same. It's like that way with acrylics. A lot of people think of acrylics as paint in tubes. Acrylics comes in different consistency. There is the craft hobbyist acrylic paint that is thinner, while the artist tubed acrylic paint is thicker. There is also a type called Fluid A...

Happy New Year!! I hope you had a restful and enjoyable holiday season! Mine was very quiet, as we stayed home. Despite the quietness, a little spice was added by taking in a stray from outside. He had been coming around our house since the summer and we even had a little heated (floor) house for hi...

Today for #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques I will be sharing with you an additive of the acrylics called Acrylic Flow Release. One of the special things about acrylics is all the different types of additives you can add to the acrylics. They can change the consistency, what it does and more. Today's addit...

Acrylics are loved as a media for creation. Today, I looked at some acrylics that don't look like normal acrylic paint in its thickness and it coming from a tube of paint. Due to its liquid substance, it will react differently with your brushes as it will have a 'flow'. It will operate more like wat...

Did you know that acrylics come in different forms? There is regular tube, heavy body and fluid acrylics. Fluid Acrylics is more liquidy in consistency. They can come in opaque and transparency just like the regular acrylic paint. Due to its consistency, it can be worked in a different way compared ...