Rebeckah Jones passed away on August 28, 2008 from complications with Sarcoidosis. She is deeply missed by her family. We thank you for all the warm thoughts and comments.
I am her younger brother, Gary, and will be doing what I can to manage her blog. We have all of her artwork. If you would like to purchase a piece to remember her by, please e-mail me at grj1996@yahoo.com. We are asking $25 for 4x4 pieces, $35 for 5x7 pieces, and anything larger we can talk about.
Blog comments are posted to reflect which pieces the family is keeping. However, this is not 100% complete and there are some pieces that may not be available, and are not commented on. I apologize.
We hope everyone enjoys her joyous art and writing. If you have never read her Public Domain Movie Review, you might enjoy them here: http://pdmoviereview.blogspot.com/
Thank you.
Sunday, September 28
Wednesday, August 20
update.
So, I spent 3 days organizing and making a colour chart for my Crayolas. Then I spent 3 days making labels and wrapping all my Holbein pastels. You'd think for $600+ they'd WRAP the pastels themselves, but noooooooo. "Why bother if you just rip them off anyway"? Then I spent a day moving my art space around. Finally, I was done with all the Mickey Mouseing around and could paint again.
I've done a number of pieces so far.... I'm still having trouble with my shoulder hurting because my table is too high to work at. Plus my canvas size is still too small for what I need to be working at. Even 9x12 feels small. And then I get shy about what I want to paint. When the canvas gets too big I loose a sense of freedom, like I feel it's a "serious" size, so I must do a perfect piece. ugh. I should accept the fact that I'm going to paint big losers while I'm paying my dues. Which is what I'm doing now.
(geez. blogger had to change things around. I don't like change when its' only purpose is to screw up my effeciency. As far as I can tell, the only purpose to redoing the look of the dashboard is to screw up my efficiency.) So, I have some pieces coming, but wanted to let them dry more before scanning. My last piece (#25) left globs of colour on the scanner bed. I was mostly sad that it damaged the piece. So, waiting before scanning is necessary. Especially with those super soft Senneliers. I was thinking I should do this, that and... la la lala... But I need to just DO my art now. Nothing else. Just my art, as much as I can. All the time.
Tuesday, August 12
Saturday, August 9
what I'm doing
wow, I am so proud of myself! I got the Holbein 225 colour set for $363 and the Sennelier 120 set for $160! Such awesome deals those are! Thanks a bunch for my economic stimulus money. YAY.
I've been testing out 3 of my new "papers" and, have gone a bit nuts with the walnut oil/blending of backgrounds. 'Tis a great technique, but my canvases got so wet that I can't paint on top of the background. Thus, my WIP is hanging on the wall drying. I am also attempting a tutorial of sorts, with many pictures in process. We'll see how that goes.
I'm very surprised I don't like the very expensive watercolour bloc paper much. (Arches) But we'll see. I have been writing and updating alot on paper and board basics, trying to do reviews of every surface I use. Mainly for me to keep track of, but hopefully it'll help others as well. Also really seeing just how versatile oil pastiles are! They can do all that oil paints and watercolours can! Except harden & dry. Grumble grumble.
Thursday, August 7
Tuesday, August 5
Forest # 22
Forest # 22 - Oil Pastel with sesame oilCanson Montval Water Colour Paper, Cold Press, 90#
5x7 inches - Not For Sale
This one is truly beautiful. I closed my eyes and drew the purple line which made the shadow line on the bottom of the trees. The true colours and subtle highlights do not show up at all. Especially in the reds. It's a pity. I know this piece would sell if it was sellable, which it isn't because I did it with sesame oil. This took me an hour to do and I just love it. I'll do another in archival materials someday. Maybe.
Monday, August 4
Forest # 21
Forest # 21 - Oil PastelCanson Montval WC CP 90# - 5x7 inches
Not for Sale
I don't think I'll be selling these last few that I've done with sesame oil. I don't think it would be archival and I'd hate to sell something that is going to fall apart or yellow horribly. I did order some walnut oil, so soon it'll be archival again. But in the meantime I am having great fun painting these and am getting some nice techniques going. I'm considering running some scientific tests to see how the sesame oil & walnut oil will perform over time in the sunlight. We'll see if I get that motivated.
*From this point forward, all "Canson WC Paper" is tagged "Canson Montval WC CP 90#". (Canson Montval Water Colourpaper, Cold Press, 90 pounds) Which is it's official name. All previous 4x4 H'arts and such were just listed without a tag, or with "Canson WC Paper" in the description. Major back editing project I don't want to do. bleh. I'm basically using this as scrap paper now anyway, so no biggie.
Sunday, August 3
Forest # 20 - WIP
Work in ProgressBlick Canvas Panel - 6x6 inches
In both #20 & #19 below I used alot of sesame oil & scumbling with a small dry brush. I absolutely LOVE this technique and as you can see in #20, was getting better at it. I doubt sesame oil is very archival, and I've already accidently scratched some colour off one piece. I'll switch to walnut oil once I buy some, and add in serious dry time as well. Scumbling will let me use canvas, but it still must be framed, so I can't do cradled boards.
The trunks here are actually the brown bits, the darker parts being "shadows". But once uploaded, I see how my mind makes the dark bits the trunks. So I'll have to go back in and re-work that somehow. I don't know what it is, the scanning, my light source, or what, but the remarkableness of this piece just did not come through. Judging from #19 which is way too dark, I think it's my scanner.
Sketch for Forest # 20 - Oil PencilCanson WC Paper - 4x4 inches
