Time. Need more of this.

Sad to say, I haven’t made much time for art lately. I did give my mom a birthday present of a day at the ARTbar in Santa Ana last month, and we made lots of groovy collages and worked with encaustics, which was a new medium for me.

I bought some Holbein oil pastels this past week. Bill Creevy’s pastel book talks about using them with Liquin and Wingel, and I really like the “ancient fresco” effect he gets. Of course when I use them, the effect is more like “gooey mess”. And my digicam appears to be busted, so I can’t even post a picture of the gooey mess. Nor of the not-entirely-horrible soft pastel I also worked on this weekend.

In the meantime, this site sells incredibly cool stuff for art restorers, and wannabe art restorers: Sinopia.