Karen Knutson paints in mixed media, trying to make her paintings fun and easy. A wide range of subjects, including landscapes, figures, collage, abstracts, florals, and birds. Many lessons are included on this blog to encourage her art students. Teaching across the country makes her life a great journey.
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Creating texture with Charcoal Powder, Birch Trees
This painting, Roots and Rocks, #1, is image size 11" x 15". I'm preparing for my next home studio workshop, "Graphite Pours to Create Texture". This painting started using charcoal powder and then pouring a big bucket of water on the paper! This process is explained in Virginia Cobb's book, Discovering the Inner Eye, Experiments in Watermedia . I love textures and I find that starting with texture on the paper, leads to inspiration for completing the painting. It was fun to go back to traditional painting for a change. But tomorrow, it's back to abstracts!
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