V is for…
Ink, colored pencil
V is for violet. V is for Verona red, Vandyke brown, Victoria green, and Vienna lake. V is for verdigris, viridian, verditer blue, and vermilion, a very vivid red. V is for vine black, Venetian red, and for verdaccio, and neutral color used for underpainting.
V is for viewfinder, vanishing points, and squinting your vision. V is for vignette, vanitas, and for variety in a composition. V is for the vibrant visions of Venice painted throughout history, and for vernissage, a private viewing for VIPs before the exhibition begins.
V is for…
Ebony pencil, ink
V is for vellum, and for verso, the backside of the paper. V is for Viva paper towels, Venice turpentine, and the viscosity of painting vehicles. V is for value scales, and verifying the studio has proper ventilation before you varnish those paintings. V is for the visual excitement of a vigorous brush, and vise grips nearby when you need them.
V is for Van Gogh, Van Goyen, and Vermeer. V is for Velasquez, Vuillard, and Valadon, Utrillo’s mother, and the first female painter admitted into the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.
V is for becoming a virtuoso at your craft.
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September 16th, 2008
Yellow Teapot
Pastel, 10×15
The Wet Canvas! monthly pastel challenge included a still life this month. It was the prettiest yellow teapot with some orangy cups, and I couldn’t resist. Anyway, this is what I ended up with. It doesn’t look anything like the reference photo.
Ya, I know, I haven’t signed it. Details, details…anyway, the basement is quite an obstacle course, and I don’t want my “contractor” to think I can work down there as it is. Gees, he’d never finish it! On the positive side, the old floor and moldy drywall are gone.
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September 10th, 2008
U is for…
Faber-Castell Ink Pens
U is for uranium yellow, ultramarine blue, and umber, either raw or burnt up. U is for underpaintings, undertones, and for those unfinished pieces hidden under the bed.
U is for painting under an umbrella to protect your pigments from ultraviolet light. U is for unleashing your Unison pastels on Uart paper. U is for Upson boards, Utrecht Art Supplies, and unveiling your latest masterpiece.
U is for…
Faber-Castell Ink Pens
U is for the Japanese arts of uki-e, which utilizes perspective, ukiyo-e, the genre scenes, and urushi-e, prints utilizing glue to make them glossy.
U is for Urwick, Ulftm, Uccello, and Unterberger. U is for Uden, Ury, Underwood, and Utrillo.
U is for the ultimate; an unending supply of art materials… eureka!
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September 1st, 2008
T is for…
Faber-Castell Ink Pens
T is for taboret. T is for tint, toners, and tube wringers. T is for torchons, tortillons, and the tooth of the paper. T is for transferring a drawing with tracing paper, and for thinners like turpentine, a toxic tool of the trade.
T is for turquoise. T is for titanium white, thioindigold red, and transparent red oxide. T is for Turner’s yellow, terre verte, and tyrian purple, a color made from murex shells. T is for turkey brown, Turnbull’s blue, and Tuscan red.
T is for giving your artwork a title. T is for texture, textile art, tie-dyes, and tapestries. T is for terra cotta, throwing a pot, and turning it when it’s done. T is for art teachers who show us how to create three-dimensional images on a two-dimensional surface.
T is for…
Faber-Castell Ink Pens
T is for tempera paint, tertiary colors, and triads, three colors equally spaced on the color wheel. T is for mosaic tiles and tesserae. T is for thumbnail sketches, three-quarter views, and for triptych, a painting with three sections.
T is for the artist’s technique, and for tromp l’oeil, paintings that fool the eye. T is for tole, often painted on tin, and for tondo, a painting in the shape of a circle. T is for talc found in paints and pastels.
T is for Titian, Tissot, and Tiffany. T is for Teniers, Turner, and Toulouse-Lautrec. T is for Tintoretto, and for Tarbell and Twachtman of The American Ten. T is for Tuscan artists who travel with dogs, and for Tyrrell, with her timely tips on all things art.
T is for tantalizing, tremendous, terrific art.
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August 24th, 2008
S is for…
Ink Pens
S is for sepia. S is for sanguine, sienna, and sinopia, a natural red iron oxide. S is for Spanish black, saffron yellow, and sap green. S is for a spectrum of saturated colors, subdued into shades when in shadow. S is for secondary colors, split complements, and creating your own style.
S is for sketch. S is for stipple, scumble, and silverpoint. S is for school kids in smocks snipping paper silhouettes with scissors. S is for the symmetry of a square or a sphere, and for the satisfaction of turning such simple shapes into scenery.
S is for…
Ink Pens
S is for scratchboard, and supplies scattered about the studio. S is for solvents, stand oil, and soft sable brushes. It’s for stumps, canvas stretchers, salamander restorative, and spatulas for spreading sizing on supports.
S is for seascapes. S is for still lifes, stained glass, sfumato, and stencils. S is for sculptors, and statues from stone. S is for silk screens, self-portraits, and sumi-e ink paintings. S is for signing your name before making the slide.
S is for Shayer, Scott, and Speed. S is for Seurat and Signac, who showed at the Salon des Independents, and for Sargent and Sisley, who showed at the Salon de Paris. S is for Sennelier, who is still making paint.
S is for savoring sumptuous works of art.
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August 14th, 2008
Jar Label Design
Copyright ©2008, L. Bachman
My kitchen is full of peaches, both canned and jammed. Isn’t that just peachy? It would be even more peachy if I had somewhere to put them!
It’s been a very full week, and I’ve learned some new things:
1. Can peaches before making jam. Firmer peaches work better for canning.
2. Peeled peaches are very slippery.
3. Rottweilers like peaches.
4. Bacon spatter is nothing, compared to boiling jam.
5. When jam heats to a roiling boil, it increases in volume. A lot.
Peaches, July ‘08
I now have 15 quarts of peaches, and 22 jars of jam. Not bad for a rookie canner! There were also fresh peaches for my husband’s lunch, and some peach cobbler too.
So, what’dya think of my label design?!?
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August 2nd, 2008
R is for…
Ink
R is for red. R is for raw umber, raw sienna, and the roots used for rose madder. R is for rose lake, red ochre, and red oxides resembling rust. R is for royal smalt, often called blue frit, and for retiring realger due to it’s risk.
R is for retrospective, an exhibit reviewing a lifetime of work, and raisonee, a catalog that records it. R is for resins, rabbit-skin glue, and rabbets behind frames. R is for raku, a method of firing ceramics.
R is for resists that protect paper from pigment, and for restoration, which prevents artwork from ruin. R is for rendering reflected color and rhythmic repetitions.
R is for…
Ink
R is for Realism, Rococo, and for the Rayonism of Russian art. R is for Roman art, and for regionalism, popular in the 1930’s United States. R is for Romanticism, and for the Royal Academy.
R is for reliefs revealed from rock, and repousse, those realized from metal. R is for rifflers and rasps used for shaping and smoothing. R is for rag paper, rice paper, and retailing it in reams. R is for reproductions, and for printer’s remarques.
R is for Reubens, Rembrandt, Renoir, and Rodin. R is for Rackham, Reid, Rockwell, and Rousseau. R is for Remington, Reynolds, and Raphael, a master of Renaissance art.
R is for the richness of life filled with art.
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July 25th, 2008
Troupe de Mlle. Eglantine, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Sketchbook, Faber-Castell Ink Pens
Do you can-can? I can can. What I mean to say is I can can. Or, at least I thought I could. Boy, one batch of strawberry jam and baby girl thinks she’s a pro. Ha!
There’s more to home canning than I ever knew. This is what 2 bunches of celery, 6 green peppers, 2 red peppers, 10 onions, and 30 tomatoes looks like when they’re chopped up for the soup pot. The tomatoes hadn’t been seeded yet.
Chili Sauce: Before
My recipe said to put it all in a large pot. I have a large pot. Isn’t it pretty? It should have said very large pot! You should have seen the expression on my face when I started adding ingredients. First, the tomatoes, followed by the celery, and one container of peppers. At that point, the pot was full, and I still had a container of onions and another of peppers to get in there.
I used two pots, and added the contents of the smaller “large pot” into the soup kettle as the veggies cooked down. Over the 4 hour simmer time, I managed to get it all in one pot. Then I got to the end of the recipe… begin canning. Great, I can do that! Unfortunately, the required head space and processing time were no where to be found.
I went to the Fresh Preserving website, and then to the National Center for Home Food Preparation website, and decided I had a high acid, pickled product. The only recipe I found that came close to mine required 15 minutes of processing time. I decided 20 minutes should be a safe. Hope I don’t kill anybody…
Chili Sauce: After
The recipe stated I’d get about 13 pints of sauce. I got 8 and a partial jar full. That was a lot of work for such a small reward. Two days of peeling, chopping, coring and seeding followed by 4 hours of cooking time. An then, six of the eight jars had to be re-processed because they didn’t seal properly! I have not been a happy camper this week.
I had hoped to have the alphabet finished before the end-of-summer crunch. Obviously, I didn’t make it. We go to the peach farm this week for- peaches! And yes, I’ll be canning those too. Hubby eats ‘em every day for lunch, and anything we don’t have to spend at the grocery store is something we can put in the gas tank. I’m making peach jam, too, which will be a welcome relief from all those blackberries!
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July 19th, 2008
Q is for…
Faber-Castell Ink Pens
Q is for quilt. Q is for quill, an early writing instrument made from a feather, and for Quink, an ink it can write with. Q is for the Quince Street painters of Philadelphia.
Q is for quinophthalone yellow, a lightfast synthetic organic pigment, and for quercitron, a yellow dye from the North American Black Oak. Q is for the quinacridones: rose, gold and magenta.
Q is for…
Ink Pens
Q is for the quarries where painters find quicklime for frescoes, and where sculptors eventually find their marbles.
Q is for Quadrone, Quinsac, and Queirolo. Q is for Quartley, the Quellins, and Quidor, known more for his embellishments on fire trucks than his illustrative paintings of Irving’s essays.
Q is for the artist’s quality of workmanship.
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July 11th, 2008
P is for…
Faber-Castell Ink Pens
P is for purple. P is for peach black, Paris green, and Prussian blue. P is for perinone orange, permanent green, and pyrrole red. P is for pink, puce, and the popular phthalos. P is for the primaries: red, yellow and blue.
P is for portrait. P is for poppy oil, portable pochades, and plein air painting on panels. P is for Prismacolor pencils, Pelikan pens, and Permalba white. P is for pestles that pound pigments into paint for the palette.
P is for portfolio. P is for parchment, paper mache, and papyrus, the precursor of paper. P is for poster board, portfolio, proper perspective, and physical proportions. P is for pumice primers that are perfect for pastels.
P is for…
Pastel Pencils over Ink
P is for pottery, pinch-pots, and pyrometric cones. P is for printmaking, and for pique assiette, a style of mosaic using broken pieces of porcelain.
P is for panorama, pantograph, and Pantone color formulas. P is for parting agents, and passe-partout presentation. P is for pointillism, photo-realism, and primitive art. P is for provenance, the artwork’s record of ownership.
P is for Pissaro, Picasso, and Perrault. P is for Parrish, Prud’hon, and Pollack. P is for Perrier, Pothast, and Perugini, who could paint like the dickens.
P is for patrons who promote the arts.
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July 6th, 2008
