If you are working from home, why not purchase art in your home office design?
According to the researchers at Stanford University (so you know they must be right) the work from home economy is here to stay. Given these statistics, why not include the purchase of art in your home office design (ok, dining room table, spare bedroom, former man cave)?
I’ve included several samples of available art to imagine just how jazzed your space can look. I have more on my original works gallery, and print gallery.
There is a two week free trial period to test out a piece in your space-sort of like what those fancy rug companies do-so there is no up front cost to consider. Payment plans are available for larger pieces. Send me an email if you’d like to try out one of the works featured, and as always, take care and be well.
Thank you for your support.
Meg
Join me, Thursday, August 20, IG Live, 4:00 PM, EST. How to add “water” to a pulp painting.
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I will demonstrate my pulp painting technique for adding water imagery to the painting. I’ll discuss the materials and process I use to make the water shimmer and flow. These are some of my most coveted trade secrets so you won’t want to miss it! Post your questions in the question box and I’ll happily answer them. See you at 4:00 EST. Videos are available on IG TV after each session.
Join me for IG Live, Thursday, July 30: mounting the background armature.
Join me for IG Live, 4:00 EST
If you can’t make it to the sea this summer, follow me as I paint it.
Like many of us, I am drawn to the primodial pull of the sea. For me, it is not just any seashore, but the north Atlantic, with its harsh terrain, ice cold water, and thunderous crashing waves. Here, rocks are thrown to the shore by an unrelenting tide. The rocks are stronger than the water, but the water can be fiercer and can move the rocks at will. This is for me the metaphor for our own lives: we long for smoothness of the water, but we are shaped by the steeliness of the rocks.
Using an array of textures and colors to illustrate this metaphor, I will depict in my painting this emotional pull of the sea and tell my story much like a poet would use words.
As you move with me through this creative process, feel free to chime in and ask questions. I have been sharing my process on Instagram live. For updates on live sessions, follow me at https://www.instagram.com/megblackstudios/
And as always, thank you for your support.
Meg
The Genesis of the painting: preparing the background drawing.
Next week, the painting will be adhered to the frame. The final size will be 40 x 40 x 4 inches.
Meg Black Handmade Paper Paintings: Process and technique
Pulp in small jars, ready to be applied to the surface of the painting with a plastic spoon. I love how I can use recycled materials such as plastic spoons in my work. I keep finding good use for cheap plastic spoons.
I am constantly asked by viewers and other artists: why do you “paint” with handmade paper? Why not use “paint?”, referring to oil paint or watercolor. The direct answer is this: the texture created by the pulp is so unique that it almost creates a three dimensional affect right on the surface of the painting.
Nowhere is this more evidenced than in the seascape series I am currently working on inspired by my visits to the North Atlantic coast. I have taken photos of my latest painting in progress and have attempted to show the different textures of pulp as they are being applied to the painting.
As the painting progresses towards completion, I will include more photos in the composition. Enclosed are several photographs of overbeaten abaca (abaca is the inner bark of the banana tree. Overbeaten abaca is beaten in a hollander beater for 10 hours until the consistency of a thawed can of frozen orange juice) being applied to the surface of the painting using plastic spoons. To create the thicker dabs of abaca, I take a cup of overbeaten abaca and strain it in a strainer until it is the consistency of wet clay. I then freeze it. Once frozen and then thawed, the abaca will retain a chunky quality. I place a tablespoon of the abaca into a cup, add pigment, acid free glue, and three tablespoons of retention aid to the abaca and stir. This mixture creates the affect of crashing waves, barnacles on rocks, and under water pools of rocks and pebbles. I’ll post more photos as this painting progresses!
The painting in progress.
