Last week in the studio, I had created a background for a piece of work.  Needless to say it didn’t all turn out as I had hoped. So I started adding layers of tissue paper and gesso to the ground fabric of felt and painted bondaweb, then things went even more pear-shaped and in my [...]

Well - I feel that I have spent enough time on this piece - not one of my better ones, now to decide:-
1) Plop in ready made frame
2) Have it framed.
Decisions, decisions!

Your comments are invited and welcome.
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Sometimes it is difficult to know when a piece is finished.  Often when I think a piece is done - I put it out of sight for a while, then I can come back to it with fresh eyes and I will see any glaring omissions or imbalances.
As a working artist - I have to [...]

I finished this little piece a week or so ago, but I have let it “sit” for a while to make sure I didn’t want to add anything and to-day I decided it was OK - although as yet it has no name.

(detail, click on image for link to larger picture)
The finished work is approximately [...]

Wolf Moon is now finished - in this picture it probably does not look a lot different than in the last post - but there is more stitching on it. I don’t know why but all the close ups I took of the piece today showed a real haze on the layer of organza [...]