Christmas came early! by Carol Nelson

OH MY GOSH! I AM BLOWN AWAY! One of the benefits of being selected for Golden's Artist Educator Program was that, after completing and passing the final exam to be "certified," Golden Artist Colors, Inc. would send me $2500 worth of their products.

The FedEx truck pulled up with two boxes of Golden products today  There are Open Acrylics, High Flow Acrylics, Flourescent High Flow Acrylics, Tube Acrylics, Fluid Acrylics, Interference Acrylics, and Iridescent Acrylics. There are jars of Fiber Paste, several kinds of Molding Paste and Gel Medium, Digital Ground, Pumice Gels, Clear Tar Gel, and many more.

Fortunately, after our week of training last month in New Orleans, I know how to use all this stuff. Golden is such a generous company, and their products, which are MADE IN THE USA, are top notch professional quality. I am so grateful for this wonderful opportunity to share these products with my workshop students.

Art of the Carolinas

The website for Art of the Carolinas is now live.  This fabulous event will be held November 7 - 10 in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Choose from over 100 workshops taught by top art instructors from around the country.  I am very thrilled to be part of this exciting gathering of artists and art manufacturers.

Look for me in the list of instructors.

Click here to see the workshops I will be giving at this colossal art event.  Notice that both the workshops I will be presenting are sponsored by Golden Artist Colors.  All paints and mediums will be supplied by Golden.

I hope to see many of you in November, but remember, space is limited, so sign up soon!

Prelude - Mixed Media Abstract Contemporary Painting by Texas Artist Filomena Booth

Prelude

24"x24"x.75"

Mixed-media on canvas

Sometimes it's just nice to let loose and let the painting decide which way to go.  I searched around for all sorts of materials and mediums to pour, scratch, glaze, etc. on to the canvas.  Transparent fluid colors were poured on to the already textured canvas.  Heavy gel medium, glass bead texture gel and crackle paste all added to the interesting ways that they interacted with the fluid paint.  Accents of metallic gold and iridescent paints created a jewel-like effect.


To see more details of this painting, please click here.

Please visit my website to see my entire portfolio of original abstract paintings.

Filomena de Andrade Booth

Texas Contemporary Abstract Artist