Painting a Day Workshop!
Hey everyone - I have been invited to a teach a 5-day workshop on daily painting, this September, at the Andreeva Portrait Academy in Santa Fe, NM. If you are interested in taking the workshop, or for more information, please visit the Andreeva Academy website: www.theportraitacademy.com. The class is small, so sign up quick!
"Split Creek" --- SOLD
I know this composition is very similar to the last one, but it's what drew me at each location. These are both from Century Ranch, a 2000+ acre ranch directly behind Enchanted Rock, in Texas.
"Intimidated Lemons" --- SOLD
I am back from my weekend paintout and will post a painting from it tomorrow! Be sure to check back. We had SUCH a great time. It is so wonderful when you find a group of friends who can support your art habit!!!
"Off the Vine" --- SOLD
I'm off for a 3-day plein air paintout with Plein Air Austin. Should be lots of fun if the weather holds out. Back on Sunday!
"Polka Purple" --- SOLD
It's SO good to be painting again. Here are some flowers from my garden. My son likes to go outside and pull up all my flowers, but these were spared for some reason.
"Bunch-O-Grapes" --- SOLD
I am just about back from vacation - picking up the dogs from my folk's house. We've had a wonderful time, but I am having major painting withdrawal! This is my last extra painting - from last week. Tomorrow I'll be back to it and will have a brand new painting!
"Ataulfo Mangos" --- SOLD
We are having a great time on our vacation. Another WEIRD coincidence on this one - bumped into a demo being given by Bob Rohm. This after running into Albert Handell in Sedona. I decided it must be because I pick such great places to take vacations! Right now we are at a cool little coffee shop in Fredericksburg, checking our email, and eating some surprisingly good veggie tacos - yum! Thanks for all the great comments ya'll!
"Tea Party" --- SOLD
I am going camping with my family for a few days. We're going to Enchanted Rock, for those of you who know Texas. Enchanted Rock is a huge, granite batholith (for those of you who know geology) - basically a big dome of rock. We like to camp there because it is often deserted in the middle of the week, and there is plenty of hiking with spectacular views. We like to sit around the campfire in the morning with our tea and read books, and hike in the afternoon. We may drive into Fredericksburg one day, and if so I can post an extra painting I have. If not, I'll be back to it on Thursday.
Tail Light Clear Coat Polish
So today as a learning project to fixing the crack lines on my spoiler clear coat in the future, I decided to fix up my Tail Light Clear Coat that took the abuse of a Canadian Winter and salt and looked dull and had the same crack lines.
Before picture of the tail light:
You see the lines and how dull it is. Hence why I took them off the car and put my all reds back.
My weapons of choice:
3m Swirl Remover (get it here!
) and 600 grit Sandpaper:
Mothers Powerball (get it here!
):
So wet sand the clear coat down to remove imperfections and for me I used 600 grit as anything higher would not remove the lines / cracks that were in my clear coat:
Remember! if you sand to far you may remove all the clear coat. Keep checking to make sure you don't completely remove the clear coat.
Once it is sanded and you see the cracks / lines gone and it looks smooth, its time to use the swirl mark remover:
Here it is on the sanded part of the tail light:
I used too much here I think, but oh well :)
Then use the Mothers Powerball to shine those tails up real nice.
Here's two pics of how clear they are:
Here's three pics showing the difference in Before and After:
If your looking to start up a car related web site, get your domain name registration and web hosting from Domains at Retail.
Before picture of the tail light:
You see the lines and how dull it is. Hence why I took them off the car and put my all reds back.
My weapons of choice:
3m Swirl Remover (get it here!
) and 600 grit Sandpaper:Mothers Powerball (get it here!
):So wet sand the clear coat down to remove imperfections and for me I used 600 grit as anything higher would not remove the lines / cracks that were in my clear coat:
Remember! if you sand to far you may remove all the clear coat. Keep checking to make sure you don't completely remove the clear coat.
Once it is sanded and you see the cracks / lines gone and it looks smooth, its time to use the swirl mark remover:
Here it is on the sanded part of the tail light:
I used too much here I think, but oh well :)
Then use the Mothers Powerball
to shine those tails up real nice.Here's two pics of how clear they are:
Here's three pics showing the difference in Before and After:
If your looking to start up a car related web site, get your domain name registration and web hosting from Domains at Retail.
"Casual Oranges" --- SOLD
My son turned 2 today. We had a small, family party for him yesterday, and I was busy cleaning and cooking for it on Saturday. That's why I didn't post either of those days, in case you came and checked and saw nothing. Sorry about that - I'm back in business now.
I have to say, oranges are hard to paint. Ikes.
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