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October 11, 2010  by

Natural Art Projects and Materials

The beautiful art that was created in my latest “Nature Art Class” was pretty amazing. Especially considering they used sale viagra online

n-paint-brushes-with-plants/” target=”_blank”>natural plant stalks as paint brushes and celery and potatoes as printing devices. See their creations below!

Make Earth Art with Potato Prints and Earth Paint

Pototo Print Eco Stationary

Make vegetable prints with Earth Paint

Celery Prints

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Celery Rainbow

Natural Art Materials

Natural Painting Class

Isaac paints a portrait with yucca stalks

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October 11, 2010  by

Balancing Family and a Creative Business

I’ve just been interviewed by the great blog “Creative with Kids” with great questions including How do you balance fam

ily & business? What inspired you to start this business? How do you balance your creative side with all the linear, fine-detail stuff that comes with running a business? and more…..

Child painting with natural non toxic paints

How do you balance your creative side with all the linear, fine-detail stuff that comes with running a business?

It’s definitely a balancing act that I’m tweaking as I go along. Even though I’m an artist, I’ve always been interested in marketing and creative advertising. After teaching “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” for many years, I can now watch myself switching over from the my

Left brain (analytical, verbal, computer work, bookkeeping, etc.) to my

Right brain (being present, experiencing the moment, creating art in the “zone”, being present with my two year old).

But it’s a very conscious choice to shift over and I have to decide, “Okay, I’ve spent two hours on marketing. Now I’m going to release all of this brain activity and spend an hour on this painting while listening to my breath and experiencing my brush pushing across the canvas. And I’m not going to check my email!” READ MORE…..

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March 12, 2010  by

"Painting from the Earth" Exhibit next Friday!

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After locking myself in my studio for the past 4 months, I have just emerged with 25 new paintings (and a large pregnant belly) using all natural earth pigments with no toxins or solvents.
Join me this Friday, March 19th for the Opening Reception at the Rogue Gallery & Art Center in Medford, Oregon. 40 S. Bartlett St. 5-8 pm
I collected all of the reds, browns, yellows, oranges and blacks locally in Southern Oregon and Northern CA, while the blue and green earth pigments were purchased from earthpigments in Arizona. I dried and ground the soils and mixed them with local walnut oils to produce the most permanent, UV resistant, inexpensive and vibrant paints available (see photos below of process).
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March 12, 2010  by

Article this Sunday in the Mail Tribune

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On March 14th, pick up a copy of this Sunday’s Mail Tribune (Medford, Oregon)! Reporter Sarah Lemon and a photographer came out to my studio in the country and interviewed me about making natural earth paints and the upcoming show.
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February 19, 2010  by

Making Earth Paints

 

mixing earth pigments with walnut oil
grinding with glass muller
mortar and pestel
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February 19, 2010  by

Looking for clay pigment in the Applegate Valley

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December 18, 2009  by

Mini-Earth Art at Bohemia Gallery

Come see a sneak preview of some small earth pigment paintings at Bohemia Gallery in Ashland!
It’s the annual mini-art show and will be up throughout

December and January.

Where: Bohemia Gallery: 552 A St. Ashland, OR
All of my pieces were created with all natural, local, sustainable materials and pigments that I either collected from around Oregon or purchased from a natural pigment supplier.
I’ve been painting like a mad woman and will until mid- March for a large one-woman show at the Rogue Gallery & Art Center in Medford. Atleast 20 new large paintings, all with natural pigments and nut oils and other elements from the earth!
Collecting some nice yellow ochre in the Illinois Valley (while 5 months pregnant).
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November 20, 2009  by

Making Egg Tempera Paint is so easy

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Tempera painting actually came before oil painting as the most favored medium and is very unique in its characteristics. It produces a crisp, luminous and almost linear effect that’s different from oil. Using egg yolk as the binder, this ancient technique makes a water-soluble paint that dries quickly allowing for overpainting with more tempera or other mediums. It’s a very permanent technique.
Basic Recipe: Egg Yolk, water, dry pigments
Just like oil paints, the recipe is a simple mixture of the binder with the pigments to produce the proper consistency. The first step is to properly separate the egg from the white. Break open an egg, cleanly separating the yolk from the white. Keeping the yolk whole, dry it by passing it back and forth in the palms of your hands, drying the palm with each pass (or roll it on a papertowel). The yolk must then be removed from the sack. This is easily done by holding the yolk over a dish or jar with your thumb and forefinger, piercing the sack to allow the contents to flow out. Discard the empty sac. The yolk itself can then be mixed directly with your dry pigments using water to lengthen. A drop or two of Clove Oil can be added to slow spoilage.
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October 25, 2009  by

How to collect and prepare non-toxic earth paints

I just drove from Jacksonville, OR to the Redwoods in Northern CA and found many beautiful oranges, reds and deep yellows along the side of the road. Good locations to find pigments are road cuts, quarries (which often reveal strata of several different colored earths), eroded areas, banks of rivers or streams, or construction sites. The mountains or along the coast of Oregon are rich with iron oxide pigments. Bad locations would be open fields or areas with crops or dense growth.
I just stuck a trowel and some baggies in the car and dug up samples along the way. It’s important to label really well with exact location so you can come back to get more in the future. Look for soil as free as possible of humus (organic matter), rocks and sand- you want mostly clay.
Washing the soil: This is not an essential step unless it’s filled with a lot of foreign matter….Mix earth with water to make a “slurry”. Allow to settle for hours or days. Sand and heavy materials go to the bottom- humus floats to top. Remove floating matter on top and siphon out water with syringe.
Drying Pigments: Spread on newspaper, burlap, fabric and put in sun or studio to dry
Grinding: Sift thru a flour sifter or screen to remove particles of humus or gravel; then grind in a mortar and pestle. Sift and grind again if needed.
Making your own oil paint could not be any easier. It takes about 60 seconds really. On a glass or enamel surface, place a pile of dry pigment (a tablespoon or two to start). Add walnut oil or walnut alkyd medium (which makes the paint dry faster) by drops, a little goes a long way. Use a sturdy rounded, flat palette knife to work the oil into the pigment until it is the proper consistency, continually bringing the outside of the paste towards the center. You can also use a glass muller to ensure that every particle is coated with oil (see picture below) but it’s not totally necessary. This paint is then used immediately from your palette. You can use more oil to make the paint thinner.

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