Comments on: Clayboard verses paper, a watercolorist’s dilemma. http://shantimarie.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/clayboard-verses-paper-a-watercolorists-dilemma/ A daily painting provided to you from Shanti Marie's South Carolina studio Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:55:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: shelly loriot http://shantimarie.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/clayboard-verses-paper-a-watercolorists-dilemma/#comment-10624 shelly loriot Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:40:45 +0000 http://shantimarie.wordpress.com/?p=897#comment-10624 just started using the ampersand aquaboard and loved it! very workable and forgiving. not confident sealing though...scared i wil ruin my piece. prefer to frame my watercolors under glass. just started using the ampersand aquaboard and loved it! very workable and forgiving. not confident sealing though…scared i wil ruin my piece. prefer to frame my watercolors under glass.

]]> By: Arco Scheepen http://shantimarie.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/clayboard-verses-paper-a-watercolorists-dilemma/#comment-10184 Arco Scheepen Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:25:04 +0000 http://shantimarie.wordpress.com/?p=897#comment-10184 Love this painting, especially in the gessoed masonite variety. Will have a further look around at your site, you have an inspirational style! Cheers, Arco Love this painting, especially in the gessoed masonite variety. Will have a further look around at your site, you have an inspirational style!
Cheers,
Arco

]]> By: shanti marie http://shantimarie.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/clayboard-verses-paper-a-watercolorists-dilemma/#comment-10178 shanti marie Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:45:29 +0000 http://shantimarie.wordpress.com/?p=897#comment-10178 I'm no chemist but I would venture a guess that gesso is a very close cousin to plaster. It would be interesting to have someone who knows such things take a look at it. Also, weren't Fresco's painted right into the wet plaster? You have to take comments from other artists with an understanding that there can always be some animosity for your work, and there is a High brow element who will find ways to disapprove of other's work. Usually they are frustrated themselves and limit themselves to a "purist" attitude which makes them ( in their own mind) a better artist. I see this also with folks who are down on artists who use projectors, photos and even girds as drawing ads. Why is it we have to tie one hand behind our backs and limit our creativity by these prejudices? Thanks for your comments Shanti Marie Artist I’m no chemist but I would venture a guess that gesso is a very close cousin to plaster. It would be interesting to have someone who knows such things take a look at it. Also, weren’t Fresco’s painted right into the wet plaster? You have to take comments from other artists with an understanding that there can always be some animosity for your work, and there is a High brow element who will find ways to disapprove of other’s work. Usually they are frustrated themselves and limit themselves to a “purist” attitude which makes them ( in their own mind) a better artist.

I see this also with folks who are down on artists who use projectors, photos and even girds as drawing ads. Why is it we have to tie one hand behind our backs and limit our creativity by these prejudices?

Thanks for your comments
Shanti Marie
Artist

]]> By: badkittyartstudio http://shantimarie.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/clayboard-verses-paper-a-watercolorists-dilemma/#comment-10177 badkittyartstudio Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:33:25 +0000 http://shantimarie.wordpress.com/?p=897#comment-10177 I really like that you are taking on this issue of traditional (when did that become 40 years or less?) mediums being used in traditional ways. I like the gessoed work much better than the other two, but being that I am an untraditional oil painter, that one looks the crispiest to me and I like it best. The cool thing is that you have options, not only as the creator, but as the buyer of art as well. You like traditional stuff...then here's something that vain for you, and so on. Thanks for sharing, I feel like I must be the only one out here having to explain my use of substructure to paint on...like I plaster my own canvases and then paint on top of that, not so new right? Well I use drywall paste/plaster ready made and cheap at the hardware store (been doing this for years, nobody said I couldn't so...why not?). When I say plaster and oil painting, people have an idea about the word plaster. At a show one time, I was telling a student how I got the effect I got with a new work (he was excited about learning something new) and was overheard by another art patron...she was horrified that I would use such a cheap product under my work. I didn't get it. Still don't. I did learn to leave out the drywall part and just go with plaster when selling though. :) I really like that you are taking on this issue of traditional (when did that become 40 years or less?) mediums being used in traditional ways. I like the gessoed work much better than the other two, but being that I am an untraditional oil painter, that one looks the crispiest to me and I like it best. The cool thing is that you have options, not only as the creator, but as the buyer of art as well. You like traditional stuff…then here’s something that vain for you, and so on. Thanks for sharing, I feel like I must be the only one out here having to explain my use of substructure to paint on…like I plaster my own canvases and then paint on top of that, not so new right? Well I use drywall paste/plaster ready made and cheap at the hardware store (been doing this for years, nobody said I couldn’t so…why not?). When I say plaster and oil painting, people have an idea about the word plaster. At a show one time, I was telling a student how I got the effect I got with a new work (he was excited about learning something new) and was overheard by another art patron…she was horrified that I would use such a cheap product under my work. I didn’t get it. Still don’t. I did learn to leave out the drywall part and just go with plaster when selling though. :)

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