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TODAY'S FEATURED POST

Announcing Cut Flowers Web Comic


Winona Nelson

I finally have a website for my comic!!!! - it is here: www.cutflowerscomic.com The plan is to upload one page per week. So for those of you who might be waiting for a free way to read my comic, the new site will be the place!

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YESTERDAY’S POST


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Using Unconventional Painting Tools


Vanessa Lemen

August 15, 2024 -   The three stages of this painting show the underlying layer of marks made with spatulas, combs, and drips, and then the softening of the atmosphere in the top layers Some folks have shown interest in the tools I use for the mark-making in my paintings, so I thought I'd do a post here about some of them. Besides alternating between bristles and sables for different effects and purposes, there are some lesser known or unconventional painting tools I use for many of the marks that my paintings consist of. In fact, the unconventional tools are what I tend to use more than the more conventional tools, much of the time. I use the word 'unconventional' only because it's a word that we all can relate to as a definition, but I don't necessarily find…

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