Spatter - thats the effect that makes the paint look 'spattered'! or speckled. or textured. I dont know how someone would do it in any other medium but watercolor and all it requires is a round brush (#10 is my favorite size), and the flick of the wrist. Some people prefer hitting the brush with the paint against the wood of another brush to get the paint to 'fling' onto the painting. I was heavily into spatter when I did my full moon series a few years ago and now I find I just dont spatter as much.

Sue, have a wonderful time in Hawaii and enjoy the escape from reality. Ill be doing the same thing next month when I visit my son in Italy.

Robin

Nasus Noaj is anything you wish it to be though many seeing formal names in some of my titles most of the time they are words from other languages or just a jumble of letters.  Most of my current work centers around environmental or ecological issues focused off on some far distant world but can be related to our own time and place.

Thank you for checking my wok out I do appreciate it very much. 

Thanks for the visit!  The speckled look comes from the texture of the paper.  My scanner sucks, so it added a few specks here and there.

Kevin 

Hi,

Thanks for your kind words....cradled birch is just a sheet of cabinet-grade birch plywood (1/4") that has been nailed and glued to 1 x 3's or 1 x 2"s...like a shadow box.  It doesn't need a frame--I just stain or paint the edges.

Best regards,

Steve

For Hire:

Have #20 brush, will paint mural on your garage door.  Will consider barter for sense of the absurd.  Call

If a tree is sacred, I guess giving it a personality, and not just that, it is a dentistree! Putting a no fishing sign on a tree and then a fishing line....these kind of make fun of some ones idea of sacred.

I think I may have inserted my foot in my mouth (again).  I was thinking of a comment about loose brushwork from a different artist, and it wasn't even on Robin's site. So sorry if your were vexed by my comment.  As I said, I do really like your sense of humor....I am inclined to actually put a fish line on a tree with the sign, and perhaps you are too.  But drawing it is different than the practical joke that might hurt the poor property owner for who the pond is sacred.....

That said, I still have to wonder how you would approach a project with a #20 filbert.

Yes, it's a photo!  Isn't it a gorgeous pose. The flamingo made me wait for it, but bam... I got it!

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