Kathy Shell, Fine Artist.
  • A Creative life blog
  • Flower Gallery
    • Flower Fridge Magnets
      • Flower Postcards
        • Flower Gift Cards
          • Flower Large Fridge Magnets
            • Flower Large Postcards
              • Flower Art Cards
                • Flower Prints
                  • Original Yellow Roses Painting by Kathy Shell.
                  • Horse Gallery
                    • Horse Art Fridge Magnets
                      • Horse Postcards
                        • Horse Gift Cards
                          • Horse, Large Fridge Magnets
                            • Horse Oversize Postcards
                              • Horse Folded Greeting Cards
                                • Horse Art Prints
                                  • Clydesdale Original Painting for Sale
                                  • Landscape Gallery
                                    • Landscape Art Fridge Magnets
                                      • Landscape Art Postcards
                                        • Landscape Gift Cards
                                          • Landscape Large Fridge Magnets
                                            • Landscape Oversize Postcards
                                              • Landscape Art Cards
                                                • Landscape Art Prints
                                                  • En Plein Air Paintings
                                                  • Portrait Gallery
                                                    • Portrait Art Fridge Magnets
                                                      • Portrait Postcards
                                                        • Portrait Gift Cards
                                                          • Portrait Large Fridge Magnets
                                                            • Portrait Oversize Postcards
                                                              • Portrait Greeting Cards
                                                                • Portrait Prints
                                                                  • Private & Semi Private,Tuition
                                                                  • Contact to Purchase Originals
                                                                  • Kathryn Shell Author
                                                                  Avoiding Fire Risk and Hazards, In The Art Studio. 01/30/2010
                                                                  3 Comments
                                                                   
                                                                  Picture
                                                                  When I have taught art, a high proportion of my art students were cigarette smokers and I never allowed cigarette smoking in my studio both for safety reasons and my personal dislike of the cigarette smoke and the smell.

                                                                  I would like to know these things and I would be interested in comments on this subject.

                                                                  This does not affect me personally, as I do not use highly volatile thinners, though most artists do and many smoke.  I have actually seen an artist smoke a cigarette while cleaning brushes over a large can of open kerosene an obvious risk of fire. Common sense is not always common.

                                                                  Fire Hazards Associated with Chemicals Used in the Arts

                                                                  The fire hazards associated with artist’s materials are often overlooked, yet fire may be the greatest risk artists face. Common art materials that may cause a fire include flammable or combustible solvents, oily rags, chemical oxidizers, and compressed welding gases.

                                                                  Improper use of solvents causes most art-related fires. 

                                                                  Artists must be aware of a solvent’s flashpoint

                                                                  and volatility, the two primary properties that influence a solvent’s ability to initiate a fire.

                                                                  The flashpoint, the single most important factor, is the temperature at which a solvent gives off enough vapour to form an ignitable mixture with air and can ignite in the presence of an ignition source such as a flame or electrical spark. The lower the flashpoint, particularly when it is at or below room temperature the more hazardous the material. 

                                                                  A substance’s volatility determines how much of it will evaporate and mix with air. In order for  solvent to catch fire, it must evaporate and its vapours must mix with air to form the right fuel/air ratio (typically 1-3 percent). The more volatile the solvent, the more readily it will evaporate and the more likely it will create an ignitable fuel/air mixture.  

                                                                  Acetone is extremely volatile and if spilled, it will evaporate almost instantly. Mineral spirits, which has a much lower volatility than acetone, will evaporate much more slowly if spilled. 

                                                                  To control the risk of a fire, always choose a solvent with the highest possible flashpoint and the lowest possible volatility. Ventilate the area to keep the solvent concentration from reaching an ignitable air/fuel mixture.  

                                                                  Remove ignition sources such as open flames and electrical equipment that may generate sparks.  

                                                                  Vapours from flammable solvents are heavier than air. They can travel some distance to an ignition source and then flash back to the solvent source.

                                                                  When dispensing flammable solvents, from large metal containers, ground both containers to dissipate static electrical charges. 

                                                                  To prevent fires, store rags soiled with setting oils (tung oil, linseed oil) in tightly closing metal

                                                                  containers and have them picked up daily for professional laundering or disposal

                                                                    Flammable solvents should be stored in a storage cabinet designed for flammable materials. 

                                                                  When using flammable solvents, out in the studio, store them in safety cans. If you handle chemical oxidizers such as chlorates, chromates, nitrates, or peroxides, store them apart from organic solvents and other readily combustible materials in storage units specifically designed for these materials. Some types of substances such as organic peroxides and nitric acid are so reactive they should be stored separately from all other chemicals. If you use compressed gases, such as acetylene or propane, be familiar with all the complex regulations that apply to them. Secure them in an upright position and test the regulator fittings and connections for leaks before using them.  

                                                                  Store flammable compressed gases, separately from compressed oxygen.
                                                                   
                                                                  Portrait Painting Atelier: Old Masters Techniques and Contemporary ApplicationsHow to Paint Like the Old MastersHow to Paint Like the Old MastersRadiant Oils: Glazing Techniques for Paintings That GlowRadiant Oils: Glazing Techniques for Paintings That GlowOil Painting Secrets from a MasterOil Painting Secrets from a MasterProblem Solving for Oil Painters: Recognizing What's Gone Wrong and How to Make it RightProblem Solving for Oil Painters: Recognizing What's Gone Wrong and How to Make it Right
                                                                  3 Comments
                                                                   
                                                                  Tile Art. 01/29/2010
                                                                  0 Comments
                                                                   
                                                                  Picture
                                                                  Artist’s can do some incredible tile  work. It is worth considering trying working with tiles as a creative medium.

                                                                  I have seen artists use a mixture of modern commercial tiles and broken pieces of patterned English bone china to create beautiful coffee table tops.

                                                                  These photos above are of the tiles in the footpath in front of the gate leading into the garden of the Art Gallery Restaurant, at 50 Emily Street Seymour, Victoria. To see more travel photos and stories, check out my 'gone bush' blog at http://www.gray-nomad.com

                                                                  The photos below are of the flower boxes at SPC Ardmona, KidsTown, Midland Highway, Mooroopna, Victoria.

                                                                   
                                                                  Picture
                                                                  Lifelike Drawing in Colored Pencil with Lee HammondLifelike Drawing in Colored Pencil with Lee HammondPainting Light with Colored PencilPainting Light with Colored PencilColored Pencil Solution Book: Tips and Techniques for Winning ResultsColored Pencil Solution Book: Tips and Techniques for Winning ResultsCreative Coloured Pencil Workshop: 52 Exercises for Combining Coloured Pencils with Your Favourite MediumsCreative Coloured Pencil Workshop: 52 Exercises for Combining Coloured Pencils with Your Favourite MediumsArt History For DummiesArt History For DummiesAnatomy Lessons from the Great Masters: 100 Great Figure Drawings AnalysedAnatomy Lessons from the Great Masters: 100 Great Figure Drawings AnalysedDrawing the Living Figure: A Complete Guide to Surface AnatomyDrawing the Living Figure: A Complete Guide to Surface Anatomy
                                                                  Add Comment
                                                                   
                                                                  FREE tips on how to write an artist resume, by Kathy Shell 01/28/2010
                                                                  0 Comments
                                                                   
                                                                  Picture
                                                                  Steps to writing your artist’s Resume. by Kathy Shell

                                                                  List your most recent activities first (under each heading). Use 10 pt. type or larger.

                                                                  1. Name

                                                                  Name (in bold or larger font)
                                                                  Address:
                                                                  Phone Number(s): Work, Studio, Home, Fax
                                                                  Email:
                                                                  Personal Website: (if appropriate)


                                                                  Comments: Be sure to list addresses and phone numbers that are current. Make it easy to be reached. The inclusion of such information as place and date of birth is optional.

                                                                  2.  Artistic  Education

                                                                  3. Artistic Teaching experience

                                                                  4. Grants/Fellowships (Awards/Honors, etc.)

                                                                   5. Exhibition Record (* solo shows marked by asterisk)

                                                                  6. Bibliography (Reviews/Articles/Catalogues, Reviews/Articles/Interviews)

                                                                  7. Publications (Published Writings, Critical Writings)

                                                                  8. Conferences (Conferences/Symposia)

                                                                  Other CategoriesThere are a wide variety of professional activities that can be deserving of headings.

                                                                  Gallery Representation (Gallery Affiliation)

                                                                  Artist Residencies (Artist-in-Residence)

                                                                  Professional Service (Service)

                                                                  Technical Abilities (Technical Expertise, Technical Skills)

                                                                  Professional Organizations (Professional Affiliations)

                                                                   Exhibitions Juried

                                                                  Exhibitions Curated

                                                                  Collections your work s are included in.

                                                                  Commissions.

                                                                  Website

                                                                  References

                                                                  Using a professional service, to write your resume.

                                                                  I am qualified to and happy to assist creative artists wanting professional help in writing their resumes. With more than fifty years of successful, creating, exhibiting, and international sales in a wide range of creative arts including business writing of resumes.  I have been assisting artists to write resumes for the past thirty years. My fee for this is my standard, art tuition time based fee.
                                                                  The Art Journal Workshop: Break Through, Explore, and Make it Your OwnThe Art Journal Workshop: Break Through, Explore, and Make it Your OwnUnfurling: Creative Exercises and Ideas for Blossoming as an ArtistUnfurling: Creative Exercises and Ideas for Blossoming as an ArtistArt at the Speed of Life: Motivation & Inspiration for Making Mixed-Media Art Every DayArt at the Speed of Life: Motivation & Inspiration for Making Mixed-Media Art Every DayRaw Art Journaling: Making Meaning, Making ArtRaw Art Journaling: Making Meaning, Making ArtJournal Spilling: Mixed-Media Techniques for Free ExpressionJournal Spilling: Mixed-Media Techniques for Free ExpressionRaw Art Journaling: Making Meaning, Making ArtRaw Art Journaling: Making Meaning, Making Art
                                                                  Add Comment
                                                                   
                                                                  Works on Paper, Touring Art Studio, Set Up. 01/26/2010
                                                                  2 Comments
                                                                   
                                                                  Picture
                                                                  We moved into a large onsite van with seven attached rooms, and began renovating it, last summer.  This is not our main home, our main home is our Eco-tourer caravan and out troop carrier, Toyota, land cruiser work mate, car, I refer to as ‘troopy’.

                                                                  I needed this summer home to have room to store my lifetime supply of art materials, left over from the art supply shop we had connected to our Buninyong Gallery.

                                                                  I will never have to shop again for watercolour papers. I have more left over from the art supply shop, we closed, than I could use in three lifetimes at the rate I am going now. I am beginning to use the textured acid free watercolor papers for my pastel sketches and I will pack some acrylic paints this year and try these out on the papers too.

                                                                  I tend to vary what medium I take away with me on tour, each year. Some years it is oils, others watercolors, and this year, based on my enormous stack of artist, quality watercolor paper, I think I will do ‘works on paper'.

                                                                  I have bought some of those office paper, storage systems at Big W; they hold A4 size paper and will be great for storing 9” x 12” paintings while they dry. They were $20. each. I bought 5 of them. I hope to have the opportunity to paint prolifically this trip and I don’t want, the not knowing where to store part wet art works, to slow down my enthusiasm.
                                                                  Now, when I do travel with oil paint that stays wet for weeks, I will have an adequate storage system for my on site paintings, as we travel.


                                                                  Artists are always wondering how to transport wet paintings and the narrow draws, made for scrap booking and office papers in lightweight plastic storage containers are ideal for this job, 'see photos'.

                                                                  This is a sponsored post. All opinions are mine. 
                                                                  Dynamic AcrylicsDynamic AcrylicsAcrylic Painting: Step-by-stepAcrylic Painting: Step-by-stepCapturing the Essence: Techniques for Bird ArtistsCapturing the Essence: Techniques for Bird Artists The New Drawing on the Right Side of the BrainThe New Drawing on the Right Side of the BrainArt Academy Art Academy  Wendy Jelbert's Line and Wash: Watercolour and Pen TechniquesWendy Jelbert's Line and Wash: Watercolour and Pen Techniques
                                                                  2 Comments
                                                                   
                                                                  Funny Open Hour, Signs! 01/24/2010
                                                                  0 Comments
                                                                   
                                                                  Picture
                                                                  In my touring Caravan. Cardboard display rack of hand crafted, bookmarks created from the images of my art works.
                                                                  Sign on my touring caravan door.

                                                                  "Open Hours:

                                                                  Open most days about 9 or 10. Occasionally as early as 7, and sometimes as late as 12 or 1.

                                                                  We close about 5:30 or 6.

                                                                  Occasionally about 4 or 5, and sometimes as late as midnight, or later.

                                                                   On some days we're not here at all, but lately we've been here a lot, unless we're not here."
                                                                    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


                                                                  Sign on my Summer Studio Retreat Door.

                                                                  ‘Closed’,

                                                                  I will meet friends in face book, the park or the shopping mall for a coffee.

                                                                  I am very busy continuing to work toward our 2010 tour of Eastern Australia.  I have organized cardboard displays, which I love, for the small handmade art cards and bookmarks we will have for sale direct from the artist, available only from our caravan, while on tour, on request. We will not be showing any of these items to people from our summer studio retreat as this is my creative time, not our interacting with people time. 

                                                                  I know other creative vocation artists; will understand the need for a creative retreat, a time for an artist and writer to isolate themselves away with their work. My sister who is a writer and artist living in California lives in a log cabin in wilderness adjacent to a National Park, up the North Coast, past San Francisco. She mixes with people only at exhibitions and the theater, this is how artist writers need to live, and even with this isolation, she tells me she is two years behind in her work. 

                                                                  Somehow, I too, need to create this barrier of isolation during my time here in Victoria. I need this time to create, while I have access to larger studio space where I can spread out my work. I do not want to offend or reject offers of friendship, but my summer home and studio, is private.

                                                                  The only address, I give out is that of one of my daughters, I cannot broadcast the address of a place that I advertise as being vacant for six months a year, while we tour.  I have no address on my business card. Our address is listed officially as ‘Highways of Australia, and in summer that’s opposite an oat field, near a lake, in the Goulburn Valley on private property, doesn’t even have a street that is listed on the map of the town and we are not ‘in’, for visitors, we are ‘in creative retreat’. It is not quite the ideal for the artist writer, log cabin, retreat, in the wilderness, my sister has, but it is ours and we love it and the privacy we seek for it.

                                                                  I hope my friends will understand my need for creative retreat time and place. 
                                                                  Lifelike Drawing in Colored Pencil with Lee HammondLifelike Drawing in Colored Pencil with Lee HammondPainting Light with Colored PencilPainting Light with Colored PencilColored Pencil Solution Book: Tips and Techniques for Winning ResultsColored Pencil Solution Book: Tips and Techniques for Winning ResultsCreative Coloured Pencil Workshop: 52 Exercises for Combining Coloured Pencils with Your Favourite MediumsCreative Coloured Pencil Workshop: 52 Exercises for Combining Coloured Pencils with Your Favourite MediumsArt History For DummiesArt History For DummiesAnatomy Lessons from the Great Masters: 100 Great Figure Drawings AnalysedAnatomy Lessons from the Great Masters: 100 Great Figure Drawings AnalysedDrawing the Living Figure: A Complete Guide to Surface AnatomyDrawing the Living Figure: A Complete Guide to Surface Anatomy
                                                                  Picture
                                                                  Art Bookmarks, in cardboard display unit, in our touring caravan.
                                                                  Add Comment
                                                                   
                                                                  Internet friends meetings will be a great part of our east coast Australia tour 01/23/2010
                                                                  0 Comments
                                                                   
                                                                  Picture
                                                                  A wonderful meeting with Western Australian friends, during our West Coast tour.
                                                                  I need to begin making up a map showing where all my friends live so I will know when I am in their area, as I would love to meet more of my internet friends, and my blog readers while I am travelling in their area during 2010.

                                                                  It is a busy time right now, organizing the tour. Once I am nearing late Summer I know I need to get moving on completing all the maintenance jobs, the car is booked for service next Friday, We just had the air conditioner service, and the caravan service comes next.
                                                                   
                                                                  Picture
                                                                  Meeting Internet friends, with the view of South Perth, WA, in the distance.
                                                                  Lifelike Drawing in Colored Pencil with Lee HammondLifelike Drawing in Colored Pencil with Lee HammondPainting Light with Colored PencilPainting Light with Colored PencilColored Pencil Solution Book: Tips and Techniques for Winning ResultsColored Pencil Solution Book: Tips and Techniques for Winning ResultsCreative Coloured Pencil Workshop: 52 Exercises for Combining Coloured Pencils with Your Favourite MediumsCreative Coloured Pencil Workshop: 52 Exercises for Combining Coloured Pencils with Your Favourite MediumsArt History For DummiesArt History For DummiesAnatomy Lessons from the Great Masters: 100 Great Figure Drawings AnalysedAnatomy Lessons from the Great Masters: 100 Great Figure Drawings AnalysedDrawing the Living Figure: A Complete Guide to Surface AnatomyDrawing the Living Figure: A Complete Guide to Surface Anatomy
                                                                  Add Comment
                                                                   
                                                                  On Location Oil Painting Studio Set Up. 01/23/2010
                                                                  0 Comments
                                                                   
                                                                  Picture
                                                                  Reg has installed a 12-volt chargeable battery run, bright LED light in the inside cabin of our ‘troopy’, car and I have a 240-volt florescent light fitting mounted high on the cargo barrier behind the driver’s seat.

                                                                  In the cabin, of the troop carrier, we have removed the eleven passenger seats to make a small room and I have mounted a table across at the back, tied to the cargo barrier. 
                                                                  Underneath this,
                                                                  I will have plastic lightweight draws containing my oil painter’s art studio equipment. 

                                                                  I have removed the comfortable seat and back from a conventional swivel stool we found at the tip shop and I place this on top of a plastic crate, which doubles as storage and the base for a comfortable seat. 

                                                                  Can you tell, how eager I am for our next painting and writing, tour?

                                                                  Safety note:
                                                                  I do not use thinners or flammable liquids when oil painting or cleaning brushes so no dangerous materials are carried in the car. 
                                                                  Experimental Flowers in WatercolourExperimental Flowers in WatercolourRoses in Watercolour (Ready to Paint)Roses in Watercolour (Ready to Paint)Painting Watercolor Flowers That Glow: Tools for Paintings with ImpactPainting Watercolor Flowers That Glow: Tools for Paintings with ImpactMaking Color Sing: Practical Lessons in Color and DesignMaking Color Sing: Practical Lessons in Color and DesignCelebrating Artistic Vision: The Best of WatercolorCelebrating Artistic Vision: The Best of WatercolorWatercolourWatercolourBeing Bold with WatercolourBeing Bold with Watercolour
                                                                  Add Comment
                                                                   
                                                                  Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea. 01/22/2010
                                                                  0 Comments
                                                                   
                                                                  Picture
                                                                  If you are visiting Korea and heading to Seoul, it is worth visiting the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, set up in a complex of three interconnected buildings. Some people visit just to view these three, architect designed buildings. The South Korea-based technology giant Samsung has created one of the finest corporate art collections and it encourages public viewing of the collection through the creation of this wonderful venue for art.

                                                                  In building one, there is 120 objects on display, from the prehistoric era to the Chosun Dynasty (1395-1910). A sleek glass-and-steel structure by architect Jean Nouvel,

                                                                  Museum II contains Korean and international modern and contemporary art, from 1910 on. Among the works on view are major examples by Rothko, Stella, Judd, Beuys, Nam June Paik, Damien Hirst, Matthew Barney, Lee Bul and Do-Ho Suh.


                                                                  The third building, the so-called Black Box, designed by Rem Koolhaas, holds the Samsung Child Education and Culture Center, which contains classrooms as well as galleries for temporary exhibitions.

                                                                  Well worth a visit.
                                                                   
                                                                  Add Comment
                                                                   
                                                                  Artist Beware of Fine Dust. 01/20/2010
                                                                  0 Comments
                                                                   
                                                                  Picture
                                                                  A close up of a soft pastel art work, showing the fine particals of pigment impregnated fine dust, talc, a hazard for artist's who breath this fine dust as they work..
                                                                  Soft pastels have always carried the risk of inhalation of the fine dust.

                                                                  Modern brands made in Europe, US and Australia claim their products are currently asbestos, free. They take this information from the companies supplying the talc used in the production of the soft pastel.

                                                                  Tests by the United States Mine Safety and Health Administration found asbestos in all four, supposedly asbestos free, talc samples that it tested in 2000. Asbestos was found, in Artist’s Pastels and Children’s crayons as recently as year 2000.

                                                                  It is a case of ‘Artist’s Beware’, when you work with soft pastels, as you are working with fine dust that when inhaled is harmful.  Whether it contains asbestos or not, we do not need a mesothelioma lawyer,  to help us understand that the inhaling of fine partial talc and pigments is a serious health hazard. 

                                                                  I love working in artist’s pastels. If I did not already own a kit worth thousands of dollars, I would never begin to use them and I swear I will never buy another pastel. I am currently having a little play with them, trying to decide what to do with the kit I have.  My knowledge tells me I should not ever use them, the recent results of what can creatively be achieved in a quick pastel sketch, makes me want to cling to these hazardous art materials. My heart has me clinging still to something, intellect tells me I should relinquish. 

                                                                  Do yourself a favour, if you already work with pastels, wear a dust mask, work with as little dust as possible, no tapping on the back of the work or blowing of the dust, indoors and damp dust after each use.  Use them as infrequently as possible and do not substitute this medium for anything else you could inhale, like volatile thinners.  

                                                                  Do all spraying of fixatives out of doors. Discourage others from taking up any art medium where the risk of inhalation poisoning is unacceptably high. 

                                                                  Yes, for sure the pastel manufacturers label these materials safe. The marketers are not the ones contracting cancers at a higher rate than the general population like professional artists do. 

                                                                  Art is to be enjoyed;  you cannot enjoy life or art if you are chronically ill so chose your mediums with health as the high priority.

                                                                  Work safely, free from the risks of inhalation, ingestion and absorption through the skin; pigments and binders. This means to minimise your contact with artist’s soft pastels.
                                                                  Add Comment
                                                                   
                                                                  Artists Soft Pastels! 01/20/2010
                                                                  0 Comments
                                                                   
                                                                  Picture
                                                                  Resourses for artists, working with Artist's soft Pastels.
                                                                  This information is for existing pastel artists. For those who have not begun working in pastels. my advise is, DO NOT DO IT.  Beware of inhallation poisoning from the fine talc dust and pigmets..

                                                                  Instructions for Handling and shipping Pastels.

                                                                  From SQUIDOO:-ust click a link to go straight to that topic
                                                                  • ALL ABOUT SOFT PASTELS
                                                                  • Learn about Pastels
                                                                  • Pastels - Definitions and History
                                                                  • Brands of Soft Pastels
                                                                  • 2010 Poll: What is your favourite make of soft pastels?
                                                                  • Unison Pastels - Resources for Artists
                                                                  • Your perspective on different Pastels
                                                                  • Brands of Hard Pastels
                                                                  • POLL: Which is your favourite make of hard pastel?
                                                                  • Pastels: Technical data about their composition and lightfastness / permanence
                                                                  • Reviews of Brands of Soft Pastels
                                                                  • BOOKS: The Pastel Book
                                                                  • BOOKS: The "Best of Pastel" Books
                                                                  • Soft Pastels - Dark and Light Sets
                                                                  • Making your own soft pastels
                                                                  • SOFT PASTELS - ART SUPPLIES
                                                                  • Pastel Supports - boards and papers
                                                                  • User perspectives on different Pastel Supports
                                                                  • Fixatives
                                                                  • Pastels Suppliers (UK)
                                                                  • Tools for working with soft pastels
                                                                  • Pastels Suppliers (USA)
                                                                  • Lots of different ways to store all your pastels
                                                                  • Art Supplies - Resources for Artists
                                                                  • SOFT PASTELS IN ART HISTORY
                                                                  • Famous Artists who used soft pastels
                                                                  • BOOKS: Pastels in the past
                                                                  • Museums with significant pastel art
                                                                  • Famous pastel drawings
                                                                  • ARTISTS WHO USE SOFT PASTELS
                                                                  • Artists who work in Pastels
                                                                  • BOOKS: More books about Pastels
                                                                  • Artists who blog about Pastels
                                                                  • BOOKS: On painting with pastels by Albert Handell
                                                                  • SOFT PASTELS - EDUCATION AND TUITION
                                                                  • Pastels - Tutors, Classes and Workshops
                                                                  • BOOKS: Pastels for Beginners
                                                                  • Different ways of learning about Pastels
                                                                  • BOOKS: About pastels by Jackie Simmonds
                                                                  • WORKING WITH SOFT PASTELS - TIIPS & TECHNIQUES
                                                                  • Working with Pastels - Tips, tricks and techniques
                                                                  • Making A Mark - blogging about pastels
                                                                  • BOOKS: Creative Pastels
                                                                  • The Pastel Journal Videos
                                                                  • PASTEL SOCIETIES, FORUMS, EXHIBITIONS & COMPETITIONS
                                                                  • Societies of Artists working in Pastels
                                                                  • Framing and matting pastels
                                                                  • Pastels - Exhibitions and Competitions
                                                                  • Forums for artists working in pastels
                                                                  • SOFT PASTELS GENRE
                                                                  • BOOKS: On Plein Air and Landscape Pastels
                                                                  • BOOKS: Portraiture in Pastels
                                                                  • Portraiture - Resources for Artists
                                                                  • ARCHIVE POLL: Which is your favourite make of soft pastel?
                                                                  Add Comment
                                                                   
                                                                  << Previous

                                                                    RSS Feed

                                                                    Follow @KathrynShell
                                                                    Follow me on Facebook at @ Kathy Shell
                                                                    Protected by Copyscape Online Plagiarism Checker

                                                                    Categories

                                                                    Picture
                                                                    Art Materials
                                                                    Picture
                                                                    Business of Art
                                                                    Picture
                                                                    Competitions
                                                                    Picture
                                                                    Creativitive Life
                                                                    Picture
                                                                    Drawing Lesson
                                                                    Picture
                                                                    On Location Painting ` 'En Plein Air' ` Paint Out.
                                                                    Picture
                                                                    Fitness
                                                                    Picture
                                                                    Gallery
                                                                    Picture
                                                                    Painting Tuition
                                                                    Picture
                                                                    Studio Class
                                                                    Picture
                                                                    Tonal Value
                                                                    Picture
                                                                    Travel
                                                                    Picture
                                                                    Writing

                                                                    Art and Art Prints by
                                                                    Kathy Shell
                                                                    Contact

                                                                    Picture
                                                                    Art Fridge Magnets
                                                                    Picture
                                                                    Large Fridge Art Magnets
                                                                    Picture
                                                                    Folded Greeting Art Cards
                                                                    Picture
                                                                    Small Gift Art Cards
                                                                    Picture
                                                                    Art Postcards
                                                                    Picture
                                                                    Large Art Postcards
                                                                    Picture
                                                                    Dogs, Horses and Wildlife Art and Prints.
                                                                    Picture
                                                                    A4 and similar size Art Prints
                                                                    Picture
                                                                    Australian Landscape
                                                                    Picture
                                                                    Poster size Art Prints.

                                                                    Archives

                                                                    February 2012
                                                                    January 2012
                                                                    December 2011
                                                                    November 2011
                                                                    October 2011
                                                                    September 2011
                                                                    August 2011
                                                                    July 2011
                                                                    June 2011
                                                                    May 2011
                                                                    April 2011
                                                                    March 2011
                                                                    February 2011
                                                                    January 2011
                                                                    December 2010
                                                                    November 2010
                                                                    October 2010
                                                                    September 2010
                                                                    August 2010
                                                                    July 2010
                                                                    June 2010
                                                                    May 2010
                                                                    April 2010
                                                                    March 2010
                                                                    February 2010
                                                                    January 2010
                                                                    December 2009
                                                                    November 2009
                                                                    October 2009
                                                                    September 2009