"Golden Season" 12077, mixed media tree collage by Carol Nelson

Golden Season

This is a warm up for my mixed media tree workshop coming up this Friday and Saturday.  I wish the photo showed the cool paper I used on the background.

It's called red rosin paper and I found it at Home Depot.

"RED ROSIN PAPER is a high quality, single-ply sheathing paper, which is widely used in built-up roofing systems as a “first layer” protective barrier. This environmentally friendly paper is manufactured from 100% recycled fibers. The fibers are set in alum to resist bleeding. It is a multi-purpose building paper used as a physical barrier protection throughout all phases of general construction."

You know me, I'm always on the lookout for possible substitutes for expensive art materials.  This paper has kind of a rosy color and has a nice weight to it.

I actually bought a roll of this paper not to use in my work, but to use as a cover for my work table.  I had a sheet of it protecting my patio table as I was using spray paint on some other things.  I liked the look of the overspray areas.

My latest kick is using Rustoleum Hammered spray paint.  It's meant to go on metal, but it looks fantastic on paper too.  With the red rosin paper, I had to prime the paper with another color first before spraying the metallic hammered paint. 

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My Painting on new Blick Catalog Cover - Carol Nelson Fine Art

Color Quad

I'm excited to share with you this new Blick Catalog cover. If you're a customer of Blick Art Materials, you'll probably get one in the mail soon. If you look carefully at my painting, Color Quad, you will see that the bottom right quarter panel of this quadtych was used as the cover image.  How cool is that?!


I have no idea how Blick came across this image of mine, or why they chose to use it (perhaps they recognized genius).  lol

We had to jump through quite a few hoops to make this happen, however, because Blick needed a high resolution image of the painting. I had already sold the painting and the only image I had on my computer was too small for printing. 

Fortunately, I was able to contact the owner of the painting, and he agreed to send the original painting to Blick so they could get a high res photo of it. 

Ironically, the original painting was only about 300 miles from the Blick offices in Illinois.  I sent the owner of the painting one of my Gemstone Series painting as a thank you for his efforts on my behalf.

A few years ago, the Blick Art Materials folks had me paint a painting on their newly marketed quad packs - 4 gallery wrap canvases sold in a pack of four.  Below is the painting I did for them that was featured in their catalog.

The nice thing about that painting is that Blick supplied the canvases, and then they bought the painting!

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"DAY 4" OF MIXED MEDIA BEE PAINTING © SAUNDRA LANE GALLOWAY

 

This has been a fun journey thus far with this mixed media bee painting that will go above my couch...For more conversation and info on this process you can visit my blog where I talk in detail about process and decisions leading to a finished piece!...ART FOR LIFE.

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