A medallion for you...

One of my students' favourite techniques from Mixed Media I - Playtime for Adults, is this easily accomplished marbled medallion.

All it takes is some clear tar gel medium, acrylic paint, liquid gloss medium, a palette knife, palette paper and a skewer.

Pour a pool of the clear tar gel medium onto the palette paper.  As it settles, mix two or three colours of heavy bodied paint with an equal amount of liquid medium and a spritz or two of water.

Drop the paints into the pool from the end of your palette knife.

Draw through the drops of colour with the tip of a wooden skewer,

until you have a design you like.  Prick any bubbles with a pin and let it dry overnight.

Once dry (and it does dry clear and see-through, you can lift your medallion from the palette paper and incorporate all or part of it into a painting.

River Study  Mixed Media on Canvas  20 x 16  © Win Dinn

Here you can see a medallion tucked under the cheesecloth in the upper right quadrant of River Study.

Playing in the river....

This may not be the right time of the year for cool river water, but this painting has been fun to finish.

River Study  16 x 20



It had been sitting in my (recently revamped) studio, waiting for the 'right' embellishments, and a recent trip to the Spokane area found me twiddling my thumbs in Cabelas, a hunting and fishing store, while I waited for John to find some bits to complete his fly tie kit.

Looking around, I could see that I'd hit collage fodder Nirvana - a host of feathers, beads, threads and more had me entranced.   Who would have thought that a hunting/fishing environment would have just the perfect shade of holographic green threads for the river? 

Life is a mystery, and sometimes an amazing gift!