by Debra Claffey | Jul 22, 2021 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Workshops
Part interactive and live work time, part work-share and group crit, part Q & A and technique demonstration. We make these weekly 3-hour online.sessions what you need. Explore painting and drawing with oils, encaustic, cold wax medium, and/or R&F Blending...
by Debra Claffey | Jan 12, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Workshops
This is untitled. It’s a demonstration piece, using cold wax medium and oil paint. It’s work I do in my workshops to show how versatile the cold wax medium makes your oil paints. Always with a reminder that technique should inform or transform your content...
by Debra Claffey | Jan 6, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress, Workshops
I taught a two-day workshop in painting with cold wax medium this weekend. It’s often easier to demonstrate possibilities than to talk about them. So this one shows layering techniques with drawing to expose the color beneath. I like the color palette, the...
by Debra Claffey | Dec 27, 2018 | Updates, Works-in-progress
A small work, only 8 x 8 inches, but it feels large to me, and wintry. I was greatly enjoying the impression that rabbit’s foot fern leaves make in wet oil paint and cold wax medium.Can’t helping adding a line...
by Debra Claffey | Dec 27, 2018 | Updates, Works-in-progress
This is a birch panel, 8 x 8 inch, with layers of oil paint and cold wax medium in contrasting colors. It carries the imprint of two rabbit’s foot fern leaves from plants in my south-facing studio window, plus a little...
by Debra Claffey | Dec 24, 2018 | Updates, Works-in-progress
This small piece doesn’t quite fit into the series I was working on at the time. I opened a pack of handmade paper that was in the studio waiting for its day. I coated most of the dark neutral toned papers with a creamy mix of oil paint and cold wax...
by Debra Claffey | Dec 23, 2018 | Updates, Works-in-progress
Here’s another is the Handmade paper series, as yet untitled, of oil and cold wax paint and a fern leaf impression. Love the contrast between the dark paper and the creamy...
by Debra Claffey | May 3, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Workshops
I had a wonderful time teaching a two-day advanced mixed media painting workshop with the very talented Donna Hamil Talman painting. We focused on using cold wax techniques to further her abstract compositions. The two days gave us more opportunity to work with dry...
by Debra Claffey | Jan 12, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
I taped down a brand new luscious sheet of Rives BFK. I put down a layer of a mixed not-quite-indigo, from burnt umber, ultramarine blue, Thalo blue, and ivory black. I laid over this a sheet of thin unbranded Asian paper, drew my favorite leaves and plants, to lift a...
