Donna Downey's Blog, page 35
February 4, 2015
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February 3, 2015
Artist Gang Tuesday...
watch as Shawn creates a pretty awesome collage on MDF board
using 3 donna downey Signature stencils, acrylic paints and mediums
hand sketched saying download
book text download
supplies used:
Substrate, mdf board, wood panel, canvas or canvas board.
Book pages, epherma, download of typing book page
GOLDEN paints : yellow oxide, titan buff, titanium white or khaki, burnt umber, cadmium deep hue, cerulean blue hue, bright aqua green, black
GOLDEN Modeling paste
Liquitex gesso
GOLDEN ma...
February 1, 2015
NEW "Amazing" products...
finding cool new products is super exciting to me. found this one at CHA (actually, i found Nathalie Kalbach and she was standing in front of this booth, lol). so i watched the demos and was convinced i needed this...all of it!!
i have visions of pressing my favorite paintbrushes into the mold putty and casting dozens of 3-Dimensional paintbrushes and embedding them into my art. well, its on the list to do!
the possibilities are kinda endless really!!!
if you have a couple minutes today and...
January 30, 2015
next stop...BC, Canada!!
Langley, British Columbia, Canada
take my "Metamorphosis" 2-day in person workshop February 7 & 8, 2015
also teaching 2 BONUS workshops the day before
February 6, 2015
hope to see you there!
January 28, 2015
"i bought them, but i don't know how to use them."
how many times have i heard,
"i bought them, but i don't know how to use them."
too many!
so today i want to tell you a little PanPastel story, my story to be exact.
about 5 years ago, i walked into an art store and stood wide eyed in front of a gorgeous display of "round pretty colors". i didn't know what they were or how to use them, but i wanted them all!
a couple months later, after weeks of obsessing over them, i went back and bought all 80 (all they had at the time). i organized the...
January 27, 2015
Artist Gang Tuesday...
watch as Andrea creates a 12" X 16" canvas
using 4 donna downey Signature stencils, inks, paints and mediums 
supplies used:
12x16 Canvas
8x8 numbers repetitive stencil
8x8 Collage Portrait stencil
8x8 She Chooses Stencil
8x8 Peonies Stencil
Golden Gesso
Golden Soft Gel Gloss
Golden Fluid Acrylics: Titanium White, Carbon Black, Raw Sienna
Golden Heavy Bodied Acrylic: Raw Umber, Titanium White, Fluorescent Pink, Fluorescent Magenta
Light Modelling Paste
Spray Paint Black
Montana Shock Whit...
January 25, 2015
Annie Lockhart is coming to the studio.....
I am so excited to invite you to join us for a weekend of sweet, soulful & intuitive painting with fabulous Annie Lockhart!
It will three days of permission to play....watch child-like discovery unfold, and open the door to a wonderful new journey into creative juicy-ness!.
Letting go and allowing yourself to express yourself freely among other like-minded creative souls is the basis of the Soulful Painting Workshop. You will be checking your inhibitions and fears at the door, because once...
January 23, 2015
"industrial magnolia" canvas trio
{"Industrial Marigold" #2 / 3 canvas series}
these 3 canvases were in my "art gone wrong" pile so i dug them out and began playing with textures, glazes, stencils and letting the process guide me.
i NEVER discard a canvas, no matter how hideous it gets because that is a part of the art story for me. these canvases had told 3 very different stories and the process that evolved now has them sharing the same ending. sappy right? totally makes me HAPPY!!
Rule #1
January 21, 2015
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