great sale - paint supplies

October 21, 2013 - good sale

By now you know how expensive paint supplies are. 

This weekend I discovered a clearance sale at Hobby Lobby for paint brushes.  These happen to be two of my favorite brands because they keep their edges and have a nice bounce.  The Liquitex is soft and doesn't leave brush marks and the Robert Simmons leave just the amount of brush marks that I like. 

I think Hobby Lobby must be discontinuing these brands and I'm not sure if the clearance is nationwide or just here in Fredericksburg, Va.  They are located in the store with the clearance items, not with the brushes.  They range from $2-3 dollars, unbelievable.  This is a good chance to buy BIG brushes.

Also, with a coupon, buying a roll of primed canvas can be a good deal, even cheaper than buying canvas pads.  I found this one  at Michael's, but later discovered that Hobby Lobby has it, too. 

Next blog will be back to color mixing and the topic will be "How to brighten colors?".  I have to paint same examples  so it might be a day or two. 

The canvas in the background is from the roll I bought.  I use it for studies. 

 

I like flat brushes the best.

Getting Ready for Sale on Saturday and Info about visit to Quang Ho's Studio in Denver

August 13, 2013

When we visited Denver the beginning of August, we went to visit the studio of Quang Ho.  Unfortunately, he was not there, but I got to see some of his breathtaking paintings.  I pinned one of them on my Board called "Favorite Artists",  I also pinned a youtube video that introduces one of his DVD's.

I've been thinking about ordering his instructional DVD's.  If I sell a few paintings at my sale this Saturday, I think that is what I will use the money for to help me improve. 

link to Quang Ho's website

Getting Ready for our sale on Saturday:

1ST

I've been gathering together some of my small paintings to have on sale at LibertyTown Arts Workshop.   To my surprise I have  more than 50 paintings. 

(not a great photo, you can see my feet)

 

Next:

I made a collage and put it on Facebook.  (I learned how to use ipiccy for collages when I did the marketing challenge):

Last and very big step:

I took the big step of getting a "square" so now I can accept credit cards.  It makes me a little nervous to try this, but I tried it out yesterday and it worked.  I had my husband charge something.  He received a receipt and I received an e-mail about it from "square", so far so good. 

and I am still painting.  I am up to #207 on Daily Paintworks.  One was an old one I forgot to post, but here a the ones from the last couple of days.