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 | Feb 28, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
I’m enamored of the color in this piece and in the repetition of the blue star fern shape. I don’t know if it is unique enough, or has that “je ne sais quoi” that makes it mine, so stay tuned to see if it pops up again, either tweaked or...
by Debra Claffey | Feb 14, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
Otty Merrill, a new colleague from New England Wax, spent the day here for a workshop in painting with cold wax medium. She’s a quick study! We worked on paper since it was just a short workshop and paper allows us to works with layers on semi-dry work. I...
